A point I made on another thread yesterday is that Catholics compare unfavorably with the Orthodox when it comes to defense of tradition. Lay Catholics traditionally have been trained to look to the institutional Church to handle it. The Orthodox regard tradition as their personal property and don't take kindly to its being messed with. Almost all of us are guilty in this culpable passivity, and the hierarchy are culpable in their encouragement of this passivity. This has got to change, because things are not going to get better until the people demand it. If this sounds a bit "we-are-church-y", so be it. When attacking the Left, it's always best to attack from the left.
When any of us defend tradition we get accused of being our own pope. The modernist concept of false obedience is a big hurdle.