Like so many commenting, this essay resonates with me, although I haven't had the fortitude or humility to stick around in a parish for the last couple of years, primarily because of the simplistic theology still being preached and modeled -- but also because of the evident "wrongness" of so many institutional policies and practices.  Every time (literally EVERY time) I contemplate going back, something occurs which only serves to point up the futility of actually participating again.  

My granddaughter just graduated from one of two elite Catholic high schools in our city, with the commencement ceremony graced by our bishop.  There it was, in his every sentence, the fairy tale theology we all grew up with, the pap fit for kindergarten but not for families nor students, 100% of whom are continuing on to universities with fat scholarships in hand.  They are facing a dangerous world, armed with giant brains but 1955's ideals.  As Dear Leader tweets, "sad!"