Recently, in the wake of a mass exodus from the Catholic Church and an overall drift away from religion in general, studies were done asking the newly non-practising religious why they were moving away from organized religion. One of the interesting findings of those studies is that it's not us pulling people away from the churches; it's not the pervasive pressure of freethinkers causing people to become disillusioned. Rather, what's really driving people toward more secular lives is the churches themselves. Another woman who identified herself as "a cradle Catholic, educated exclusively in Catholic schools, married to a practicing Catholic, raised five children in the faith, taught C.C.D., was involved in the marriage preparation program in our parish -- in short, one of the active practitioners of the faith," said she had opted out because of " the recent church teaching on end-of-life issues; the moving, instead of removing, of priests and bishops involved in the molestation of children; the headstrong opposition to the use of condoms in Africa to prevent the spread of AIDS; and the absence of any priest I can talk to." She added: "I've stopped going to Mass because I can't in good conscience say the Creed, as I don't think this is a 'holy' church, and I don't feel I can receive the Eucharist under these circumstances." "Exit interviews for departing Catholics or those just not attending Mass is a nice thought," said a 69-year-old retired businessman, "but it is obvious to me that there