Liberal Catholics will tell you that Catholics are leaving because they disagree with the church’s teaching on women priests, divorce, the bishops’ interference in American politics, etc. One of the reasons there in such disagreement is that we tend to think that everyone leaves for the same reason our friends, relatives and acquaintances have left. We fail to recognize that different people leave for different reasons. People who leave to join Protestant churches do so for different reasons than those who become unaffiliated.
