Not ironically, I think you have landed where the Bible has. “Church discipline is of critical importance. Exactly how that works out is left as an exercise for the reader. Anyone who has the answer figured out is to be immediately rejected as prideful, a fool, or both.”
You make excellent points. I agree that there has been a lack of discipline in the RCC, but I for one cannot leave Holy Mother Church. As a Third Order Carmelite, I've made promises to God (and VM) to stay in and faithful. But I'd stay anyway, because I regard RCC as "Holy Mother Church," and regard my spiritual mother as being attacked now by a band of brigands and assaulters (including James Martin). I cannot leave my spiritual mother while she is under attack. No, I'll stay by her side and fight back. Also, the RCC can also be thought of as the magnificent, "sprawling", and mysteriously complex Body of Christ with Christ at its head. His body can also be thought of as being under attack. Some parts of the body are becoming diseased with toxic spiritual microbes--so we, the faithful "antibodies" are sent in to fight the spiritually malignant microbes. Will sepsis set in? I don't think so--if sepsis sets in, we're in the Tribulation, and Our Lord will return and apply intravenous spiritual antibiotics. HIs Church cannot be wiped off the face of the earth, because He wants it preserved for His ultimate second coming, even if upon HIs return, Our Lord finds the last set of RCC remnants are forced back into defacto catacombs (see Charlotte, where the most faithful were about to be sent to the hinterland to-be-converted abandoned former Prot church for their very restricted worship services). Thank God, Pope Leo seems have granted a "stay of execution" until he can consider the look of a church that has come to persecute the most faithful and elevate the sexually deviant (LGBT) or erring (eg, co-habbers).
Not ironically, I think you have landed where the Bible has. “Church discipline is of critical importance. Exactly how that works out is left as an exercise for the reader. Anyone who has the answer figured out is to be immediately rejected as prideful, a fool, or both.”
You make excellent points. I agree that there has been a lack of discipline in the RCC, but I for one cannot leave Holy Mother Church. As a Third Order Carmelite, I've made promises to God (and VM) to stay in and faithful. But I'd stay anyway, because I regard RCC as "Holy Mother Church," and regard my spiritual mother as being attacked now by a band of brigands and assaulters (including James Martin). I cannot leave my spiritual mother while she is under attack. No, I'll stay by her side and fight back. Also, the RCC can also be thought of as the magnificent, "sprawling", and mysteriously complex Body of Christ with Christ at its head. His body can also be thought of as being under attack. Some parts of the body are becoming diseased with toxic spiritual microbes--so we, the faithful "antibodies" are sent in to fight the spiritually malignant microbes. Will sepsis set in? I don't think so--if sepsis sets in, we're in the Tribulation, and Our Lord will return and apply intravenous spiritual antibiotics. HIs Church cannot be wiped off the face of the earth, because He wants it preserved for His ultimate second coming, even if upon HIs return, Our Lord finds the last set of RCC remnants are forced back into defacto catacombs (see Charlotte, where the most faithful were about to be sent to the hinterland to-be-converted abandoned former Prot church for their very restricted worship services). Thank God, Pope Leo seems have granted a "stay of execution" until he can consider the look of a church that has come to persecute the most faithful and elevate the sexually deviant (LGBT) or erring (eg, co-habbers).
And you make a good case for staying. May God bless your faithfulness.
I respect all faithful Christians and feel they're equally in the fight to preserve Christendom (and hence, Western Civ) by staying orthodox.
My suggestion is that Christians begin referring to PRIDE month as Anathemonth.