I give up.
At least for today, I do. When the nuns (and the Pope) are less Catholic than a random football player, you have to wonder what the point is of having a Church in the first place.
When I converted to Catholicism, I never considered becoming a Protestant, not because I found the theology of Catholicism ideologically more appealing to me than one of the various Protestant churches, but because I respected that the Church was grounded (imperfectly) in the wisdom of the ages.
My worry about Protestantism is that it is constantly fragmenting, with Church doctrines often influenced by contemporary ideological movements. The path from Martin Luther to drag queen minister is an odd one, but it boils down to too much reliance of people’s consciences and too little on serious interpretation and reflection. Not all Protestants are attached to the “If it feels good, do it”…
