text: I believe you need to understand that Catholics do not live in isolated 'greenhouses'.  They live in the real world, just as other folks do.  People have jobs that call them to work over the week-ends on Saturdays and Sundays.  Catholics marry partners who are not Catholic, not Christian, not monotheistic----who are 'nones'.
  
  And Catholics were down right angry that bishops covered up sexual abuse, moved abusing clergy around the diocese or into other dioceses.  Catholics were angry that their bishops or clergy told them for whom they COULD NOT vote because the hierarchy had become "one-issue" voters and demanded that their parishioners become so as well. 
  
  Catholics have problems with their marriages just as other folks do.  But the stance of too many of the hierarchy---who are not married themselves----is that marriage is the only sacrament of service where there cannot be any mistakes made.  
  
  None of this has anything to do with attendance at Mass---it's the reality of life today.