First, let the Pope be the Pope, the Church the Church.
Second: Jesus is the High Priest and the Captain of your salvation. To Him you owe your soul for He paid for it with His blood.
And third: Continue going to church and particpating at wherever you feel called to attend.
God, if so desires will prompt you to do make changes in your life to meet His wishes.
All for good.
I am not above "the Church" but am the church. My Lord Jesus resides in my heart of which is the temple (Church) of the Holy Spirit.
1Co 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Col 1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
His body is the church. What does that church consist of? Believers. Believers are what make up the body of Christ which is the church.
Mat 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
That is the church. Not a building or an organization.
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The Church is that who is allied to Christ in His Body, which is the living organism of members under the Holy Father, as Christ determined. I am not the Church, you are not the Church. The Church is His, and His alone.