text: Reese: "Alienated Catholics when they experience condemnation and exclusion, they leave, never to return" but offers no proof. 
  In 2016, PRRI asked those who no longer identify with a denomination why the left. "Notably, those who were raised Catholic are more likely than those raised in any other religion to cite negative religious treatment of gay and lesbian people (39% vs. 29%, respectively) and the clergy sexual-abuse scandal (32% vs. 19%, respectively) as primary reasons they left the Church.”
  Pope Francis approved a reiteration last November of the ban on priests with “deep-seated homosexual tendencies.” He has referred to same-sex marriage as an “anthropological regression,” “disfiguring God’s plan for creation” that will “destroy the family.” 
  The recent charges by the U.S. and Canada against a Vatican diplomat for child porn who is now shielded by the pope inside the Vatican against prosecution speaks for itself.