text: I have to agree with you to a certain extent.  I miss the Latin Mass.  As for being The One True Church --  I'm old enough to remember being taught in grade school that everyone who wasn't Catholic was going to Hell when they died. That's very upsetting for an 11-year-old child with a lot of non-Catholic friends.   Further, I think people left (as I did) because every generation becomes more and more educated.  The RCC's huge emphasis on "sins of the flesh", with so many more sins not preached about, started to really get to me.  No prolonged kidding before marriage.  No sex before marriage.  No birth control within marriage. Divorce allowed but no remarriage.  [My ex was abusive, and my parish priest told me to go home and be a better wife!] No abortion unless the life of the mother is in danger -- abortion is horrible but who is going to take care of those unwanted children?   I became very tired of a god who 'loved' us much more if we were suffering, celibate and male.