text: I'm not afraid of Protestantism. I am Catholic and like being one. If I wanted to be a Protestant or subscribe to Protestantism, I'd go join a Protestant denomination. Why can't you people leave those of us who want to be Catholic in our beliefs in peace instead of trying to turn the Catholic Church into a clone of one of the thousands of Protestant denominations and getting mad when people point out there are many places that have the things you are advocating for?  I suspect if you got your way and were able to change the Church according to the image you desire, once there was nothing more to fight the Church on, you'd get bored and fall away. Note the Episcopalians do everything you want and yet they are declining.