This is the introduction thread....how about telling us a little about yourself.
I'm from Australia, was born and raised Catholic... but actually not, because if it were up to the homilies and Catholic Schools that I grew up with then I would not be a Catholic.
I believe we are entering a new era akin to that before the French Revolution and WWII, as we have more information at our finger tips than even the most wealthy and well connected person just 30 years ago... There are things I have learned that would simply have been impossible to those before my generation... big changes are on their way and at first the devil will try to claim them for his own, as every error and lie is on the table for every person today, more people than anytime in history too... but so is the truth.
So right now it's very chaotic and toxic. I know the PsyWar is alive and well, a large part of the CIA and military industrial complex, I know they are targeting the Church thanks to Wikileaks and other sources... I'm in an impossible situation, but one step at a time and maybe one can work towards restoring the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church... If I am speaking to a N.O. Catholic, I will recommend that they simply try to bring back reverence toward the Holy Eucharist, that they receive kneeling and on the tongue if possible... one step at a time and this is the most immediate problem there IMO. If I am speaking to a Sedevacantist, SSPX etc I would simply ask that they don't write off many of their N.O. brothers and sisters and that while they are correct in resisting many of the errors of Vatican II, I don't think there are grounds to say that Pope John Paul II for example was illegitimate... but you are right to call out their errors, just wrong in tactics IMO.
I would remember that in the French Revolution, the Vendee rebels did not turn things around, in fact they lost and spurred on the reign of terror, the Sacred Heart was given to the King (which was a great grace that they sadly spurned) and not to the rebels... It was the martyrs of Compiegne that got Robespierre himself sent to the guillotine thus ending the reign of terror, even then they still weren't out of the woods yet, as Napoleon then took power and brought war to all of Europe and ultimately destroyed France... I think if King Louis XIV had heeded the Sacred Heart... everything would have been different, it's also something that would have come under the eyes of a young Napoleon Bonaparte... instead he chased after doomed figures like Julius Caesar.
God Bless