Why did you leave in the first place? I was removed from the church when the Vatican II changes occured. I was a child, raised Catholic but outside the church.
Anyone here has ever left the Catholic Church to join a heretical Christian sect like Evangelical Protestant or Pentecostal or Mormonism? As a teen I went back to the church only to find it had changed, dramatically. Not understanding the changes and not receiving any help, I guess, I did formally walk away from it but not from God
If so what brought you back to the Traditional Catholic faith? . Well, the person who started my journey back to attending church was a Baptist friend who learned I was a Christian without a church home. Then through God's continued mercy in my efforts to know Him more I wandered the Christian landscape, first stop Southern Baptist, married a Pentacostal, raised my kids non denominational, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Eastern Orthodox. It was the EO priest that reminded me of my cradle faith that I found so elusive. My husband converted to Eastern Catholicism and I transferred rites. This is the faith I was nurtured in my youth and what I learned in years of studying the Bible.
4. Do these groups have anything that Catholicism is lacking when it comes spiritual fellowship or building friendships with other believers.? In my travels, I found Roman Catholicism is dead. They do not know the faith, and what ever they know, they do not share. I have since learned there are many true, faithful Catholics online.