Why not send letters to the Vatican? Catherine of Seina did so. The problem is not with the people trying to attend Mass where they can find it. The Enemy is Rome. And, that will be handled with prayer and finally God's just punishment. But, Whoa to them that with there silence or there excuses or their blind sheepish follow of heretics that call themselves the Magesterium of Christ's own Church. You make yourselves accomplishes. As a Catholic to pray for Benedict and the rest who drag the Bride of Christ through dung heaps is a real no brainer. We are called to pray for the conversion of all to the True Faith, yes, even Joseph Ratzinger. But we are also called not to aid and abeit and to use our voices to warn and guide those they we can. After all, we are the Church Militant. And, that Church historically is made up of people who had "other things" to occupy them such as work, and family, but they managed to stand up and fight when needed. I have called priests and nuns when I was in the Novus Ordo and the light was started to filter into my brain and questioned and showed truths and I have called Bishops and yes even sent letters to the Vatican. If they choose to continue on their path to hell, atleast I tried as do others.

I think that first, before traditionalists can go about actually "doing something", they should come out of their holes, unite among themselves, and operate within the supervision of some sort of ecclesiastical authority.  Only then will their actions truly make any difference here on earth.

I doubt if this will ever happen. I still believe it is only the Pope who can change our never ending dilemma. And no matter how many times we ramble here, so long as the Pope never wakes up, our authority is limited.

"I doubt if this will ever happen. I still believe it is only the Pope who can change our never ending dilemma. And no matter how many times we ramble here, so long as the Pope never wakes up, our authority is limited."

Joan,

You are mostly correct.  We as laymen have no authority to lead a modern counter-reformation: only the Pope can truly do that, which is why we should pray for the man, even if it seems humanly impossible to us that our prayers will be of any effect.  Humanly speaking, we are in an impossible situation and, without Divine Providence, we will accomplish nothing.  It will take a miracle to untangle this mess that is the modern world.

However, our Holy Religion teaches that miracles do indeed happen.  Thus, we must continue to pray.

That said, there is much that we can do with regard to what we believe, how we dress, how we conduct ourselves, how we raise our familes (for those of us with families), whom we choose to associate, where we choose to live, what sorts of political activities we might engage in and with whom, and so on.

I just read a good article on the importance of families, which I think cannot be over-stated.  I'll post a link to it later.  As we know, the family is the most perfect natural society and as fathers, mothers, and members we all can play an important part.  The father of the family (pater familias, in Latin) plays the principal leadership role, as he sets the tone for how the family will generally conduct itself.  Without strong fathers who know their Faith and can lead by example, strong families are difficult if not impossible to create.  Then of course, there is the critical role played by the mothers who, because they generally spend the most time with the children, have perhaps the strongest practical role in terms of their education.

By founding and maintaining strong families -- the building blocks of society as a whole -- we are taking the first steps in re-creating Catholic Christian society, i.e. what used to be called "Christendom".