And for all those giving this discussion a "spiritual bent", talking about charity, compassion, and the like --
If you make a mistake, or commit a sin, then you confess it and move on. God will forgive you, man might forgive you, and nature certainly will not forgive you.
But you have to actually be humble/contrite, or else you haven't really repented.
You need to acknowledge your position as a lousy worm who rejected the truth, and now you learned the hard way. You have to really show that you regret your decision, and that you were stupid. When you destroy your life, or your health, due to your own stupidity, there is only ONE attitude to take, in the face of those who had the truth all along: humility.
Meanwhile, those who had the truth all along should be gracious about it, refrain from "I told you so", be humble as well, knowing that it's only by God's grace you possessed the truth for so long, etc.
And hanging around a group of people you want *nothing to do with* except a few times per year when you're in need of money -- that's not cool at all. When you don't need money? They're crazy, extremist, you completely disagree with them. But you happily step in periodically to beg for money? What kind of nonsense is that?
There are millions of people in this world in need. None of us can save the world. We should save our economic charity for those we know locally, our family members, our extended family, and then those "of the Household of the Faith". And that means *Traditional* Catholics. Novus Ordo Catholics are barely? questionably? technically? Catholic. They are one step above protestant, because they have the name, so they get some benefit of the doubt. But they aren't automatically our fellow Catholics; the average Novus Ordo doesn't even have the Faith anymore. All you need to lose is ONE dogma, and you're a heretic, you don't have the faith period. Having the Faith is like being pregnant. Either you are, or you aren't. Either you accept everything the Holy Catholic Church teaches or you do not.