[who_would_fardels_bear]

The suggestions so far seem to be:

1. Behave in a Christian manner regardless of what the priests and bishops say and do, and
2. Join a parish that is solidly orthodox so you can hide away as much as possible from the heretics.

Neither of those is going to be sufficient. There seems to be a thread of conservatism within Catholicism that is somewhat Calvinistic. They suggest, without ever coming out and saying it, that even if there are only a handful of Catholics left when Jesus returns then the Catholic Church will have survived as prophesied; and of course they believe they will be among the handful.

I think the only plan that has any hope of successfully righting the Catholic ship is for the creation of a lay apostolate within the Catholic Church that functions something like the Christian Coalition did. The hope would be an ever-increasing membership of Catholics willing to hold back funds from organizations and fund drives that fail to hold to Catholic doctrine. Members would also be willing to march, protest, and conduct civil disobedience to express outrage against particular individuals and institutions advocating heretical positions.

An existing organization could be co-opted for this purpose, or a new one started up.

Money and feet talk. Letters or phone calls from individual Catholics to disobedient bishops fall on blinded eyes and deaf ears.

If the actions are limited to opposing activities that are clearly heretical then I don't think this would count as disobedience to the Pope or the bishops in general.

If the actions are limited to Church property then we may be able to keep the MSM out of it as much as possible. So no closing down traffic on a public highway, but maybe surrounding a church to prevent entry if that church hosted a gay "marriage". Maybe sit-ins in bishops' offices similar to the sit-ins in deans' offices of college protesters.

Heretical bishops are making tangible changes to the Church. This requires a tangible response, not just running away in hopes of being part of the "remnant", writing cleverly worded op eds in The Wanderer, or spouting off on a YouTube vlog as others might suggest.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"I think the only plan that has any hope of successfully righting the Catholic ship is for the creation of a lay apostolate within the Catholic Church that functions something like the Christian Coalition did. The hope would be an ever-increasing membership of Catholics willing to hold back funds from organizations and fund drives that fail to hold to Catholic doctrine. Members would also be willing to march, protest, and conduct civil disobedience to express outrage against particular individuals and institutions advocating heretical positions."

That's an extremely interesting idea.

Does "Catholics United for the Faith" still exist? Christifideles Laici?