If you cannot leave the Catholic Church, then their numbers are OVERINFLATED

[earthside]

7. Ah, the irony.

That's sounds similar to what Franklin Graham was trying to say about Pres. Obama still being a Muslim because his father was a Muslim.

In the case of the Roman church, of course, anyone who has read even a little European history knows that the Catholic church is and always has been about POWER.

This is why it mystifies me why anyone would belong to such an organization. The Roman church has done just absolutely horrible things -- to pick one example, the genocide carried out against the Cathars in 13th century France.

If this church was democratic and could be changed from the inside, I could understand why people might stay and fight for reform, but it is an authoritarian institution where all decision-making power residing with the Pope and his Princes/Cardinals.