text: "We cannot have a Catholic Church without sacraments, and a priest is needed for the Eucharist, confession, and anointing".
  I like to rephrase it "We cannot have a Catholic Church without pureness of spirit, period."
  Without the pureness of spirit, by clergy sexually abusing children and bishops hide and condone rapist clergies it is a place of Catholic hell instead.  
   "While I do think many who have drifted away simply "couldn't give a fig" about any of it anymore and are distracted by what the secular world has to offer" 
  That is a dishonest statement.   I personally could not remain in the church smelling the stench of clergies sexual impurities, Archbishops shameless lying in public, their attitude of couldn't  careless silence of clergy sexually abused children's suffering.     
  What exactly is the purpose of the Eucharist, confession and anointing while those clergies rape children in confessionals?  Our spiritual journey is a journey of purity of our heart, RIGHT?