What's Wrong...and/or Right...with the Catholic Church

WHY DO I EVEN BOTHER WITH THESE OBSERVATIONS?
Because the Catholic Church is a Big part of my life and my being...almost as important as my Faith.

And now the Church Fathers, the Bishops, the Curia - the entire Magisterium - is causing the organized Church to risk another schism by its intransigence.

The Laity, the Body of the Church, has already had its schism - as the number of members who attend Mass and who adhere to other practices of the Faithful has already declined from over 70% to less than 20%.

The promising efforts of Pope John XXlll and Vatican ll in the 1960's were discounted and derided in the subsequent decades.
The logical desires and needs of the Laity and of the Church itself were ignored or denounced, in my opinion for no good theological reasons:
the possible marriage of priests; the permission for divorced and remarried Catholics to be restored to Holy Communion: the use of non-abortifacient contraceptives and the elimination of the "Unitive Function of Sex by committed married couples; even a Clear and Unrelenting opposition to the abomination of Abortion and to its "Catholic" supporters.

As a result, the Church now faces the serious challenge of the "Synodal Way" by the entire German Clergy.
See the Linked article by Fr. Raymond J. De Souza.
That is the clear result of obstinate - and I believe non-theological - refusal to consider and compromise.
The Church had a similar experience in the Past. It was called the Protestant Reformation.

I will continue to pray for my Church, its leaders and its members.

GS