"Unlike you, I speak from experience not conjecture."

Wrong again. I am a working parish priest of over 25 years experience. I have experienced the wonderful practice of authority and have supported wholeheartedly such leadership. I have also experienced woeful authoritarianism dressed up as authority which I have consistently challenged. 

You may think that you are being a very good Catholic by giving assent to demonstrably poor leaders - on the grounds of the office they hold - but I'd say that, that was a very immature and irresponsible attitude. In any case, the truth is that any Bishop or Cardinal who expressed a view with which you disagreed, would soon be labelled as a heretic etc.. (You've already labelled me - wrongly.)

I notice too that your use of the term 'failed' has considerably softened since you first used it - now that it's desired impression of humility has been questioned. You didn't fail, you discerned that religious life was not for you. A very different thing.