text: Actually, like in North America, South American people are leaving Catholicism due to sexism and our refusal to ordain women equally to men, clericalism, child abuse, mandatory celibacy, and a lack of basic Christian behavior coming from our hierarchy and many of our parish members.  
  
  An attitude of dismissal towards the gifts and practices of Charismatic Renewal over the past few decades, in our church (a style of worship which mirrors the prayer of Pentecostal worship) have cost us as well.   We are the macho-church still, and this has cost us any real sense of The Holy Spirit acting in unrestricted ways thru us.  Orthodoxy likes to study and even control, rather than act when it comes to the Holy Spirit (our ordination practices are proof of this too).  However, evangelization and  church growth and passion require a less controlling attitude of heart with the Holy Spirit.