QUOTE: "Offering what he called "free advice from a non-Catholic," he suggested that American bishops be more outwardly supportive of Pope Francis' teachings on climate change and social justice, which are generally popular with millennial Catholics."

Programs designed to bring back disaffected Catholics are doomed to failure. This is especially true when they are based on pandering to what the disaffected are supposed to want--based on what is thought of as being popular.

Educated Catholics should know that church corruption, no matter its form or degree of penetration, can not be used to justify disaffection. The truths of the church are still true, the sacraments are still perfect and God still protects the church from grave error. If they want to use how messed up the church is to justify leaving the church, they will have to answer to God for that. Just like the corrupt Bishops and Priests and religious are going to answer to God for what they have done.