Hi, Judy —

Thanks for the question.

If you feel your spiritual needs are not being met at your local parish, then most definitely,
you should seek out another parish to see if another parish can better meet your spiritual needs.

If you disagree with your local church on a matter that is related to the doctrine of the
Catholic Church, then prayer and striving to understand the Teaching of the Church is required.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church should be helpful or after searching our knowledge base, you can ask us.

In one situation, we are dealing with issues like:

• local customs or practices
• quality of the preaching
• poor pastoral leadership
• lack of activities in the parish
• lack of enthusiasm in the parish
• faithful in the parish that are centered more on serving themselves
  (with an attitude of: they own this ministry), then serving Christ in others.
  

In the other situations, we are dealing with teachings that can't change because the Holy Spirit protects and safeguards these teachings, like:

• the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist
• the Primacy of St. Peter in the Holy Father, the Pope
• the reality of Purgatory and the Holy Souls in Purgatory longing for our help.
• the Sacraments of the Church
• the option of praying to Mary and the saints
• the ministerial male priesthood
• official disciplines of the Universal Church: e.g. in the Latin Church: a celibate priesthood

Hope this helps,

Mike

Judy,

I assume you are Catholic, you don't like one particular parish, and would like to go to another.

That is fine, but I hope you might look at the underlying issue and try to address that directly.
If it is simply a personality that turns you off . . . so be it.

Peace,

Bob Kirby