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So I converted 6 years ago, and I knew going into the Church that the Pope was a bad Pope. The thing is... I did my due diligence before going in, so it didn't bother me. I was merely Christian before becoming Catholic and went to one of those big non-denominational "churches" for people that didn't have a "denomination". By due diligence I mean that I studied the history of Christianity for hours every day after getting home from work (I was single at this time). This went on for a couple months. What I found after studying the history of Christianity, and especially reading about the early Christians, and reading the Early Church Fathers, is that the early Christians were either Catholic or some form of Eastern/Oriental/Assyrian/Syrian Orthodoxy. The 10,000+ denominations of Protestantism just aren't consistent with believing what the early Christians believed, so they just aren't real "churches". Even reading through the book of Acts you can see that the Apostles founded actual churches that were all in communion with each other all over the Roman Empire. And the early Christians talk about obedience to the bishops of these churches, how the bishop of Rome is the prime patriarch of the Church, obedience to the Church in understanding Scripture (since most Christians couldn't read Scripture anyways), how the Eucharist is the real Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, how Sunday was the Lord's Day, how even though we are saved by Faith we must work on overcoming our tendencies to sin or we will go to Hell, etc. In other words, what Protestants believe, in general, is anathema to what these early Christians believed. Thus, if you have a common sense hermeneutic you can see that it's impossible for any of the Protestant denominations to be true, since they pretty much all deny one or more of these core beliefs of the early Church Christians. Therefore, it's clear that these Protestant denominations teach novelties that are heretical to what early Christians believed. Then once you realize that, you are just left with the Apostolic Churches: Catholicism and Orthodoxy. But then Catholicism wins because again, there was always a leader of the Church that had more weight to him, even though there were other Patriarchs. Again, in the book of Acts, it's clear that St. Peter is the leader of the Church, even though the other Apostles are Patriarchs, esteemed by the Church body. And when Peter consecrated his successor Bishop in Rome, he was considered the primary Patriarch, and so our there successors. The Orthodox even acknowledge this primacy, while simultaneously refuting his universal jurisdiction, but again, if you read many early Eastern Church Fathers, you can see they acknowledged the Chair of Peter as the highest office in the Church.

TLDR: Just read a lot of Early Church Fathers, history of Christianity, and do a lot of analysis of what the early Christians believed then vs. what different "denominations" profess now, and you will come to the conclusion that I did if you are being objective. I know many others that did what I did, and became Catholic converts for the same reason.

I hope this helps. God bless!

I converted 2 years ago from non-denom Protestantism (but I joined the SSPX over the mainline gay "Catholic" Church), and it is a difficult situation for sure to explain that Catholicism is true while the Pope himself is completely subverted. However, it's not the faith that is wrong, it's the hierarchy that was subverted. If the RCC is the "true church", then it would be obvious that Satan and his minions would attack through subversion from the inside. I recommend [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyMCWXaVieY) to anyone who wants to understand how we ended up here.

Liberals (in the wider sense, not the political one) want to turn everything into a human-made religion, so that atheists can come in and attack "see, it's just man-made rules that we can get rid of". They want the maximum freedom to do what they want, which includes freedom to do evil, any hierarchy, anyone saying "no, this is sinful" is therefore a problem for the Liberal.

They infiltrated the Church during the first half of the 20th century, then in the second half they replaced the Latin Mass with their man-made liturgy. Their goal is to weaken the faith that anything actually comes from the Apostles and Christianity is just some human-made celebration around a mythical tale of Christ (instead of Christ being real, God existing and morality not being based on emotions but divine, eternal laws).

So now you have a split between "traditional Catholics" (which are just regular Catholics, because Catholicism is Tradition) and "modern, liberal Catholics" (who'd rather choose to follow the liberal pope into error instead of admitting that the pope can be wrong and resisting him / criticizing him, etc.). The Orthodox Church doesn't have this problem, because they don't have a pope, with the downside that they have schisms among themselves, like the Ukranian Orthodox vs Russian Orthodox vs Greek Old Ritualists vs ...

Most Protestants in the US are some form of Baptists, who don't really have any connection to history. Converting to Protestantism is just giving up on the idea that Jesus is physically present in the Eucharist and it's all just "my mind, my bible and God" and just "spirituality" instead of physical reality. It's easy to believe, but won't take you very far. Jesus died for the based few, not the many normies (heaven would be hell if redditors were allowed to enter, if you get what I mean). Above all Jesus hates indifference, and talking to normies I understand why.

Converting to non-denom would just be giving up, which is why liberals don't really have a problem with non-denominative Christianity, because it's not a "danger to democracy", it's not a united Church, therefore it's not dangerous to their actual counter-religion of Liberalism.

Because, as a Catholic, weve had even worse Popes before, and survived them too. For most of history, thanks to the lack of mass media, Catholics havent even known what the Pope was up to. Doesnt matter what the Pope is doing, what matters is how well we know our own faith and are following it. Those who are weak in faith will be shaken by a bad Pope, those who are strong in it will remain firm.