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I agree with you but I am not catholic.  Why not be another Christian denomination instead of catholic?

I never understood why people wanted to be a particular denomination but didn’t believe what that denomination taught.

I was reading on the Vatican website and some absolutes to be catholic were

Pope has final authority and is infallible when speaking for Christ (apparently a rare event)

And you must believe when you take communion you are actually drinking the literal blood body of Christ, that the priest has the power to transform the wine and cracker to become the literal blood and body.  Most Catholics I have asked dont believe that the wine/cracker literally transforms but its a huge part of what it means to be RCC

Those are the two things that separate RCC from other denominations.  I have personally never been any denomination or taken communion but IF I ever thought it was important I would pick a church that agreed with me on those main points.

To me that is the big problem with churches today, people are part of various denominational faiths but don’t believe what ever it is that makes that denomination what it is.   So there are rebels who in a sense change what that church was founded on.  It’s not just with the RCC it’s with all of them.  Heck its in political parties too.   RINO’s have watered down what republicans used to be and liberals have changed what democrats used to be.  They should have started their own groups rather than change the existing group.  IMHO