I did not leave The RCC for any reason other than college made me, a previously very devout Catholic and a daily Mass attendee, a non-believer -- and I've never regretted 'losing my faith.'  However, when the scandal first broke, I wrote a Letter to The Editor of The LA Times, and The LA Times published my letter.  In my letter I reminded readers that the vast majority of RC priests are good priests and, secondly, that the classic profile of a pedophile did not at all fit a gay man/priest. ////  Somehow -- I guess I was very stupid -- I really believed that The RCC would step up and do the right thing. They didn't.  And the Chancellor of the diocese that I was in, and who was a good friend of mine, had a severe nervous breakdown over the continuing coverup and was in an a medical institution for a year. It's now -- what -- 15 years later, and this 'stuff' is continuing and The RCC is still playing dodge ball. This all is so shameful and criminal that there are no words to describe it.