If the Roman church still felt like "home", people wouldn't have left it.
One of the many things that irks me about the Roman Catholic Church is their refusal to accept that people have left.
I don't call my first wife "lapsed", or suggest that she should come "home"; She chose to leave, and I respect her decision. She would be rightly angry if I were to go around talking about her as though her decision to leave was some kind of temporary aberration, particularly as it was a couple of decades ago, and she apparently has an adult son by her subsequent choice of partner.
And were I to deny her decision in that fashion, it would be reasonable for my friends and family to question my psychiatric health, as well as being a serious concern to my current and beloved wife.
But apparently, when the RCC does it, it's not creepy or needy at all.
I have never been a Catholic; But I am no less Catholic than someone who once was, and now isn't. If people can enter your organisation, then they can also leave - unless you're running a jail.