text: That's all rationalization, again, promoted by anti-Catholic/non-Catholic activists in the media and other positions of power.
  
  Young people leave the Church out of the natural childish trait of not wanting to be told what to do or having to comply with rules.  In years past, that tendency was offset by a Church that knew how to teach and a public sector that decidedly acknowledged, accepted and respected that people had religion, even as much as to allow Christmas trees in public school classrooms.
  
  Driving the "anti-religious religion" government out the the education business would be a good start, for it's there that the war against Catholicism commences with the youth.