Mega Church Pope

People join a mega church because of something unique to that church.  It might be the preacher, music, certain programs and activities that they find there.  When the number of family memberships drop and the church has to sell its property, move, disband, it is usually because something unique to that community changed.  The pastor leaves.  Programs are dropped or changed.  The choir changes.  The Catholic experience tries to be different than this.  One joins a Universal Catholic church and attends a particular parish.  When there is a change in the parish, they may go to a different Catholic parish, but all within the Catholic umbrella.  This is the hope or design of "joining" in a Catholic tradition.  If the only reason someone is joining a church is because it has a Mega Pope, they won't last long.  Popes die.  Heavy handed chancery clerics, officials who are short on mercy but long on law, don't seem to die much at all.  One needs to find something eternal about the Catholic church, something that touches the inner spirit, to hold the believing member.  All churches are otherwise all too human.