The final question of the survey asked respondents to select their top recommendation to U.S. bishops on how to restore belief in the Real Presence. Approximately 15% of respondents chose to respond to this question by selecting the “Other” option, resulting in 1,994 open-ended responses consisting of more that 35,000 words of feedback. Each response was subsequently assigned one or more of topic tags, the frequency of which is illustrated in the graph below.
The following table presents all open-ended recommendation responses. You can filter the table by clicking on the TAG button on the top of the table. The selected tag will appear in red below the tag selection drop-down. You can clear the selected tag by simply clicking on it. You can also use the SEARCH box to find key words throughout the feedback. There is also an audio version of this feedback available on our podcast of the results.
| Number | Recommendation | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Permit, encourage, and support the Roman Rite in the TLM in your dioceses and move toward implementing all the above in both forms (NO and TLM). | Return to Tradition |
| 2 | Retrain priests to speak and act as if Jesus is truly present. | Catechesis, Personal Witness |
| 3 | All of the above. We have never been taught the TRUE Catholic faith. I am 58. They watered it down not to offend man, while completely offending The Trinity and The Blessed Mother, Mary. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 4 | Comprehensive plan to demonstrate reverence for the Eucharistic by all priests, altar servers, EMHCs, anyone who has a role in the Mass. | Reverence |
| 5 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 6 | Publicly repent your sins against the church, and call the faithfully to do the same. | Leadership Reforms |
| 7 | Reminding all of the need to be in a state of grace to receive. | Confession |
| 8 | All of these things. #1 = Purge the Church of bad priests. The Church's success starts with its priests and the clergy. Practice and teach what we are supposed to believe. Our souls are in your hands. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 9 | All of the above and bring the Latin Mass back. We have to drive an hour and a half to get to a Latin Mass. Otherwise we would be going to the TLM always | Multiple Recommendations |
| 10 | Promote the TLM | Return to Tradition |
| 11 | Some aspect of the above. Unsure of where to start to be honest. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 12 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 13 | I believe it has to be all of these. You cannot take just one, or two, and have it make sense. It isn't just one of these elements that adds to belief the Real Presence, it's all in conjunction. It cannot be done even half way. If you eliminate any one of these, then the Lord doesn't receive His right reverence and the laity are not properly cared for by their bishops. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 14 | Encourage the widespread offering of the Latin Mass which embodies many of the behaviors consistent with the Real Presence. | Return to Tradition |
| 15 | Challenge parents to step up to their responsibility | Catechesis |
| 16 | Catechize the faithful - with JOY | Catechesis |
| 17 | Catechize the clergy about nature of Mass, and impose ad orientem | Catechesis, Return to Tradition |
| 18 | God's glory is present in so many situations and denominations outside of the Catholic Church. Catholics are completely asleep that there is a Great Awakening to corruption going on. God is talking through profits in other churches. You want to know about the real presence? Find someone who has good communication with god. They are likely not catholic. I seldom go to mass because I seek God's glory elsewhere. Catholicism has been inhabited by the evil spirit of religion for more than 500 years. | Other |
| 19 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 20 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 21 | Multi faceted. Not one answer. Ministers need to go priests need to show reverence for Jesus in Eucharist | Multiple Recommendations, Personal Witness, Reverence |
| 22 | I feel that "Catechize the faithful" would have to include all the other item lists above. | Multiple Recommendations, Catechesis |
| 23 | all of the above would be beneficial | Multiple Recommendations |
| 24 | Teach truth as it was given to us by Christ. | Catechesis |
| 25 | Honestly all of the above must happen! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 26 | End the sexual abuse by priests. I have very little respect for a priest until I get to know them | Leadership Reforms |
| 27 | Take away ALL Novus ordo heretical/schismatic masses and have ONLY pre-55 traditional Latin masses that are NOT in communion with the heretic Bergoglio. | Return to Tradition |
| 28 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 29 | Better training of priests. Currently most diocesan priests don't believe in confession, the real presence, sin. | Leadership Reforms, Catechesis |
| 30 | Include in the catechizing the promotion of such books as A Cardiologist Examines Jesus: The Stunning Science behind Eucharistic Miracles, by Dr. Franco Serafini. | Catechesis |
| 31 | Communion kneeling and Priest celebrating Mass Ad Orientum | Return to Tradition |
| 32 | Promote the sacrament of Confession as necessary before receiving the Eucharist | Confession |
| 33 | Expand access to the Tridentine liturgy which emphasizes reverence, transcendence, and Christ as being forever a victim of sacrifice on our behalf | Return to Tradition |
| 34 | We've done a lot of damage to our Church with weak Bishops and Priests (Pope). Double messages, cover-ups, more concern about not offending the congregation that speaking clear truths. Is it any surprise that we are going the way of Protestants.. Our | Leadership Reforms |
| 35 | in my previous comment, greater education on Mass | Catechesis |
| 36 | This is difficult... return to kneelers with catechist would lessen extraordinary ministers, etc. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 37 | Only consecrated hands should touch the most Blessed Sacrament! | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 38 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 39 | Witness, catechize and opportunities to meet Jesus in the Eucharist. | Catechesis |
| 40 | Catechizing priests & the faithful would drive them to receiving on the tongue and naturally eliminate EMHCs while encouraging greater reverence. | Catechesis, Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 41 | Preach on worthy reception, mortal sin, confession and three hour fast | Confession |
| 42 | promote adoration and do so by their own witness | Adoration |
| 43 | Facilitate encounters with the living God through ACTS, Cursillo, CRHP, etc. and provide opportunities to foster and teach personal prayer, it’s at home and in adoration. Add perpetual adoration chapels. That’s where I fell in love with Jesus! | Adoration, Catechesis |
| 44 | I liked the railing where you were kneeling. I know this would be difficult to do. | Return to Tradition |
| 45 | All of them, but the faithful need to be catechized.. during homilies etc. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 46 | All of the above!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 47 | Receiving on the tongue with altar rails and cutting out extraordinary ministers. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 48 | More education about the mass and the Eucharist | Catechesis |
| 49 | Allow and encourage the Traditional Latin Mass. This setting organically provides many of, not just one of, these options listed. But of those listed above, kneeling and receiving on the tongue communicates intuitively to the soul, the reality of the grandeur of what they are participating in. | Return to Tradition |
| 50 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 51 | ALL ALL ALL of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 52 | Two are required. Receive kneeling on the tongue only from priest or deacon. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 53 | Bring back the Latin Mass. Our pastor started to celebrate but Pope shut it down. | Return to Tradition |
| 54 | Honestly, all of these, and continue to repeat them all! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 55 | Dressing modestly and remembering that you are at a wedding banquet | Reverence |
| 56 | I would say the reception of the Eucharist in general needs to be re-reformed. No EMHC’s, receive while kneeling and on the tongue. How do you choose just one when they all go together? | Return to Tradition |
| 57 | Realize what has happened since V2 and defend authentic Holy Mother Church and her lambs, as you are supposed to. | Return to Tradition |
| 58 | Mandate the reception of holy communion kneeling on the tongue not just encourage | Return to Tradition |
| 59 | Establish the Traditional Latin Mass universally. | Return to Tradition |
| 60 | Bishops need to do all the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 61 | Proper Catechesis would eliminate essentially all of the issues pertaining to irreverence towards and abuse of the Holy Eucharist. If only it were emphasized and everyone understood that they are indeed receiving Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist, all would kneel, receive on the tongue via consecrated hands, and would attend Eucharistic processions and Mass as often as possible. | Catechesis |
| 62 | Offer the Traditional Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 63 | Offering the Traditional Latin Mass at your parishes throughout the Diocese | Return to Tradition |
| 64 | It has to be all of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 65 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 66 | All of the above especially #1 | Multiple Recommendations |
| 67 | Ad orientum-emphasis that liturgy is about the worship and adoration of God, not geared toward the priest or the people | Return to Tradition |
| 68 | While all of the above items are important and needed, the crucial thing that needs to change is that the NO rite needs to be abandoned in favor of the usus antiquior. Bishops should do everything they possibly can to nurture the availability of traditional Masses in their dioceses. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 69 | However each of these points are extremely important and need to be addressed | Multiple Recommendations |
| 70 | A combination of eliminating EMOHC completely, offering reception while kneeling and on the tongue, and catechized the faithful. It has to be a combination. One thing alone isn't going to fix this issue. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 71 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 72 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 73 | Stop being weirdos and restore the married presbyterate | Other |
| 74 | Get rid of the Novus ordo created by Protestants in league with free Masonic clergy | Return to Tradition |
| 75 | ELIMINATE receiving the Eucharist in the hand and extraordinary ministers from distributing unless actually NECESSARY.. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 76 | Emphasize finding Christ in both neighbor and Sacrament. Serving the poor. Abandon their silly culture wars. | Other |
| 77 | Too difficult to pick one. Withhold the Eucharist from public officials who obstinately reject Catholic teaching, to bring awareness to more people and absolutely eliminate Extraordinary Ministers | Multiple Recommendations, Canon 915, Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 78 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 79 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 80 | Ensure that the clergy always model proper reverence. | Reverence |
| 81 | Allow the uninhibited use of traditional Latin mass, as many of the remedies are encapsulated under this solution. | Return to Tradition |
| 82 | Please see my previous words | Other |
| 83 | Care for our lgbtq brothers and sisters better | Other |
| 84 | Ad orientem Novus ordo mass | Return to Tradition |
| 85 | Teach God's Truth, Tell the Truth and Practice the Truth | Catechesis |
| 86 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 87 | Have the tabernacle front and center where it is supposed to be. In some churches, you need a GPS to find it! | Tabernacle Location |
| 88 | All of the above apply | Multiple Recommendations |
| 89 | Change frequency of Confession/Penance recommendation to twice a month or monthly. | Confession |
| 90 | Discontinue the Novus Ordo and return to the 1954 Missal | Return to Tradition |
| 91 | Allow the TLM in all parishes | Return to Tradition |
| 92 | Celebrate and encourage the traditional Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 93 | To exhort one Cardinal to say that the Pope is dead | Other |
| 94 | Restore the’54 | Return to Tradition |
| 95 | Be totally Catholic! | Personal Witness |
| 96 | Seminary training ! | Catechesis |
| 97 | Publically renounce heresies | Leadership Reforms |
| 98 | Emphasize the importance of making a proper confession prior to reception of Holy Communion. | Confession |
| 99 | These recommendations can't be separated from one another. They must go hand in hand in order to be successful. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 100 | Each one imperative to this issue!! its ALL OF THE ABOVE | Multiple Recommendations |
| 101 | Talk about the real presence often. | Catechesis |
| 102 | Put the Tabernacle in the center of every Catholic Church in this country and have the priest say Mass facing Our Lord. Let our priests be shepherds leading their flock by example - not sitting high up in the center themselves. It's a travesty that in many churches you have to search for the Tabernacle. If the Eucharist is the Source and Summit of our faith, why is He pushed off to the side in so many churches? | Tabernacle Location, Personal Witness |
| 103 | Priests should not just be men- open to all qualified and educated. Church should not harbor and protect those who molest. No more forced group sleepovers Confirmation. CCD should families not kids only. | Catechesis |
| 104 | Catechize and withhold from public officials who reject true teaching | Canon 915, Catechesis |
| 105 | ALL OF THE ABOVE - all equal importance & crucial to this topic | Multiple Recommendations |
| 106 | All answers above should be allowed, as they are all completely true!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 107 | Only allow the practice of receiving the Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling AND eliminate Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 108 | Improve the way the liturgy is practiced. The atmosphere of mysticism and transcendence is critical in indicating to a person that the Mass really is heaven on earth. More Latin, incense, Sanctus bells, theologically accurate music, etc. | Return to Tradition |
| 109 | I humbly request that the bishops promote and expand the use of the Extraordinary form of the Roman Rite | Return to Tradition |
| 110 | I would ban communion in the hand | Return to Tradition |
| 111 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 112 | There’s quite a few church’s I’ve seen that don’t even have kneelers. People need to know the importance of kneeling for our Lord as a reminder that is God and He lives in and through the Eucharist. People need to kneel when taking the Eucharist and by tongue. | Return to Tradition |
| 113 | Expand Traditional Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 114 | Offer one Mass on Sunday mornings where a kneeler is available, next to the priest, for parishioners to receive Holy Communion on their knees and on their tongue - with a paten - actions convey more than encouragements | Return to Tradition |
| 115 | Return to the ancient liturgy and let God work in us | Return to Tradition |
| 116 | All of the above are needed! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 117 | All of the above I can’t choose only one | Multiple Recommendations |
| 118 | Change nothing | Other |
| 119 | CATECHIZE THE FAITHFUL in ways that they can remember, are easy to digest, are free, and freely available - it should not cost money or be hard to discover the truth that has been freely given to us!!!!! | Catechesis |
| 120 | We need stronger leaders that preach the faith , not “cancel” holy priests trying to do that | Leadership Reforms |
| 121 | Embrace the faithful who love the Latin Mass instead of making them 3rd class citizens or nagging and hurting them, tempting them to leave for schismatic groups! Encourage more reverence from availability of more Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite Masses as Pope Benedict outlined in 2007; Bishops stop the unfair, heart-breaking and demoralizing treatment of faithful -esp. young Catholics who love the Old Rite. It seems anti-pastoral. Enough with the lame, cringy modern church music and decor! We need beauty in Church music and Churches. Apologize for locking the faithful out during covid. | Return to Tradition, Reverence |
| 122 | Talk about current events and how Catholics deal with it. Talk about spirituality | Catechesis |
| 123 | Promote a greater awareness of the supernatural | Catechesis |
| 124 | Invite to have a relationship with Jesus | Other |
| 125 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 126 | Removing homosexuals and other heretics from the clergy. | Leadership Reforms |
| 127 | Get rid of extraordinary ministers and encourage receiving on the tongue and kneeling | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 128 | All of the above is needed | Multiple Recommendations |
| 129 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 130 | Fire bad bishops. That would be most of them. | Leadership Reforms |
| 131 | Combination of the second and third one above as part of the Catechesis. Third one should focus on prayer of thanksgiving after reception. | Prayer, Catechesis |
| 132 | Return the NO to a more TLM mass. More Latin bring back at least 1/2 of the prayers 1962 removed. Turn ad orientum retrain the irreverent priests. No lay people or woman on altar. Enforce modest dress | Return to Tradition |
| 133 | Show more events about the miracles of the Eucharist. Such as the fessed Carlo Arcturus poster display | Catechesis |
| 134 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 135 | And eliminate communion in hand | Return to Tradition |
| 136 | Pray for an out pouring of the HOLY SPIRIT upon the laity...They need to be called back and encounter CHRIST THEMSELVES | Prayer |
| 137 | The priests and bishops must show deep reverence for our Lord during the Eucharistic Liturgy, the Presentation of the Holy Eucharist and post Communion. So many previous cut short the Liturgy, rush through it, do not raise the Host or the Communion up to Heaven; the Deacons don’t kneel; Deacon, Priest, Eucharistic Ministers don’t know where to bow when on the altar—each of them bowing in different directions (not towards the Tabernacle); the music is Protestant kumbaya sappy song. The priest no longer prays the Litany of Saints. When cleaning & purifying the Holy vessels it’s rushed & chaotic. Sometimes an announcement is made for an additional collection just before or immediately following Holy Communion. No prayers are ever said post Communion. It’s a circus. Clearly there’s a huge problem with lack of belief among the clergy! The Shepherds casual disrespect of our Lord transmits to the faithful. Recatechize | Catechesis, Personal Witness, Reverence |
| 138 | All of the above and education is the key. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 139 | Teaching congregation about the mass and how to use proper posture throughout the mass. | Catechesis |
| 140 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 141 | Get rid of the mass of Paul VI and all the sanctuaries built to accommodate it. | Return to Tradition |
| 142 | Encourage your flock to attend the Latin Mass. | Return to Tradition |
| 143 | Stop protecting child predators and encourage reverence for the Eucharist | Leadership Reforms, Reverence |
| 144 | Change the liturgy of the Eucharist back to Latin. | Return to Tradition |
| 145 | Celebrate Latin Mass without any noise on weekdays. Mary sat at Jesus' feet listening to him. The world is noisy and people have become bad listeners | Return to Tradition |
| 146 | Traditional churches and format appeals to us | Return to Tradition |
| 147 | Emphasis at the early age in catechism classes needs to be every year not just once | Catechesis |
| 148 | Make the Traditional Latin Mass more widely available | Return to Tradition |
| 149 | I cannot pick one, All of the above!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 150 | all of the above… | Multiple Recommendations |
| 151 | Restore Latin Mass and receive the Eucharist in Tongue while kneeling | Return to Tradition |
| 152 | Living it more deeply himself. Holiness is attractive and believable | Personal Witness |
| 153 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 154 | ALL OF THE ABOVE | Multiple Recommendations |
| 155 | Ad Orientum | Return to Tradition |
| 156 | All of the above + TLM | Multiple Recommendations |
| 157 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 158 | All of the above are necessary!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 159 | Get rid of so-called Eucharistic, ministers, female altar, boys, and female lectures | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 160 | Teach them about Eucharistic miracles | Catechesis |
| 161 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 162 | Return to the Vetus Ordo Mass. Take Summorum Pontificum seriously. | Return to Tradition |
| 163 | Prohibit reception in the hands. It is sacrilegious and always results in particles getting trampled. About 1 out of every 7 hand distributions leaves a macroscopic particle behind in the recipient's hands, which then falls when they lower their hands. | Return to Tradition |
| 164 | ALL of the above, but especially exposure to the Traditional Latin Mass! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 165 | All of the above are of great necessity! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 166 | ALL of the above!!!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 167 | All of the above ... but organize on -going private and public prayers of petition for this cause. Prayer is the answer to everything! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 168 | Include in homilies examples from lives of saints, ancient & new, examples of Eucharistic devotion and/or miracles. | Catechesis |
| 169 | Rid the Church of architecture and art that work against a sense of the sacred. De-emphasize social events and re-emphasize spiritual events. Teach priests in formation how to preach intelligently, cogently, and with emphasis on and explanation of dogma. | Catechesis, Return to Tradition |
| 170 | Promote the Traditional Latin Mass everywhere and offer it themselves publicly. | Return to Tradition |
| 171 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 172 | Increase Catholic Social Teaching efforts | Catechesis |
| 173 | I choose #1, encouraging the practice of receiving the Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling but I don't know if I can add anything extra in any of the other questions so I'm adding it here. I don't go to Mass etc. because of my health. If I could I would go as often as possible and the same for Eucharistic Adoration. Also to the question of how long have I been a Catholic - yes from birth but I left for many years only going occasionally. I only returned 2.5 years ago. | Return to Tradition |
| 174 | All are very important, but starting with catechizing. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 175 | Reception kneeling, Mass ad orientem | Return to Tradition |
| 176 | Only priests should give Holy Communion and kneeling on the tongue. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 177 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 178 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 179 | Allow and promote the Tridentine Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 180 | Return to the Traditional Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 181 | No one of these can do it. 1-4 are all important. My area is rich in 5. 6 alone would be misunderstood. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 182 | Ensure that the priests actually believe in the real presence and prove it in their homilies and behavior! | Leadership Reforms, Personal Witness |
| 183 | All of the above, with equal and unreserved attention. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 184 | Live out the change I specified earlier is the biggest. Professions and adoration also would help in my opinion. | Adoration, Personal Witness |
| 185 | All of the above are imperative to improve belief in the real presence! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 186 | Move tabernacle to center of celebration, replace altar crucifix, celebrate ad orientum, encourage reception on tongue, kneeling. | Return to Tradition |
| 187 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 188 | All of the Above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 189 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 190 | Traditional Latin Mass accomplishes all the above | Return to Tradition |
| 191 | All of the above are very important!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 192 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 193 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 194 | I choose all of these ..but I know I can only pick one | Multiple Recommendations |
| 195 | Return to the Roman Rite instead of the New Rite | Return to Tradition |
| 196 | Catechize the faithful + Encourage greater reverence | Catechesis, Reverence |
| 197 | I’m offended by the solutions you propose in this survey. They are short sided and would be a superficial response to a very complex problem. | Other |
| 198 | Priests modeling greater reverence for the Eucharist. | Personal Witness, Reverence |
| 199 | Abolish the New mass completely. | Return to Tradition |
| 200 | Live your full faith including all of the above where your people can see YOU. Stay out in your parishes and celebrate without Extraordinary Ministers, allow me to teach the First Communicants to receive kneeling rather than require them to ‘take Him’ standing in the hand, lead a proper Benediction rather than permit parishes to have an extraordinary minister plop Him in the monstrance and unceremoniously back into the tabernacle at the end of the obligatory hour of Adoration in the middle of the work day when most parishioners cannot attend, open your churches so at least one church within a 30 minute drive is open at least 24 hours a day, call on the people (and your pastors) to make it happen, call on them again until we do. Dying on Calvary for our sins was willed by the Father, neglecting/abusing Him now is not. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 201 | Terminate the so-called “Novus Ordo” with extreme prejudice | Return to Tradition |
| 202 | All of the above. But if pressed for 1, eliminate extraordinary ministers and the practice of communion in the hand | Multiple Recommendations |
| 203 | Restore the Mass of the Ages and send the Novus Irdo to the dustbin of history. | Return to Tradition |
| 204 | Get rid of bishop Malley who is cancelling good holy priests for his own agenda | Leadership Reforms |
| 205 | All need to be done. Mostly importantly, holy Vatican officials need to be an example... when people leave, they always tell me it's because of clergy, and the Pope | Multiple Recommendations |
| 206 | The whole ethos of the N.O. must be abolished if there is any hope of saving the Church. The Anglican communion service must go. | Return to Tradition |
| 207 | All of the above are needed because it has gotten so far out of control | Multiple Recommendations |
| 208 | I checked other because I could only check one. My #1 recommendation is both receiving on the tongue while kneeling, and eliminating Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 209 | I have to say both the first and last suggestion. Receive Communion on the tongue and kneeling and eliminate Eucharistic ministers. To me they are equally important. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 210 | All the above equally | Multiple Recommendations |
| 211 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 212 | Get the Holy Eucharist OUT of the unconsecrated hands of the laity. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 213 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 214 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 215 | Numbers 2 and 3 together. Catechize people, but not in a way that just conveys information, but earnestly stressing the sacrifice made out of love, so that we show respect and love for Christ’s Body and Blood. | Catechesis |
| 216 | All of the above + promulgate the Latin Mass | Multiple Recommendations |
| 217 | Homilies that actually relate to the lay Catholics' lives. Actually explaining the reasoning and meaning of the real presence. | Catechesis |
| 218 | Stop considering that the Eucharist is a prize for the pure. | Other |
| 219 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 220 | All of these exist only in the Novus Ordo so abolishing that would be my #1 recommendation | Multiple Recommendations, Return to Tradition |
| 221 | Bishops should preach and teach this frequently, model reverence and demand it from priests, and show in their own behavior that they believe (no lockdowns, refusal of Communion to pro-abort politicians, etc.) | Canon 915, Catechesis, Reverence, Leadership Reforms |
| 222 | Behave before, during and after Mass as if you are in the presence of the King of the Universe. | Reverence |
| 223 | Add a public profession of Eucharist faith to the order of the Mass, like that said in the Byzantine church. Make the laity say that they know and understand what the Eucharist is every time they receive it. | Other |
| 224 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 225 | All are important, can't just pick one. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 226 | Ad orientum worship is a must | Return to Tradition |
| 227 | Eliminate Eucharistic ministers, communion kneeling and on tongue, confessions before Holy Mass, teach what a sacrilege is, the Eucharist received in Mortal sin / sacrilege is a major issue | Confession, Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 228 | That our priests would ALWAYS reflect and be a witness to the Truth of what is happening at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. What taught me most deeply about the Real Presence was attending the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass where a holy, devout, and orthodox priest who reflected by his manor and actions the reality of the Real Presence. May God bless and sanctify our priests. | Personal Witness |
| 229 | The clergy in general need to demonstrate reverence for the Eucharist in ALL things in which their influence if evident in order to set an example for others that THEY BELIEVE in the Real Presence THEMSELVES! All of the things listed are highly important, but none are as important as publicly leading by example | Personal Witness, Reverence |
| 230 | Increase the number of Traditional Latin Masses | Return to Tradition |
| 231 | Teaching from the pulpit isn’t enough- peoples eyes glaze over. Shake up the people and start everyone talking by eliminating EMHC and telling people to receive in the tongue while kneeling. Both simultaneously will cause a shift in routine and start the conversation. Otherwise people’s will continue on as they are because it’s good enough. | Catechesis, Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 232 | I feel that it should be a combination of all beginning with education; however, as the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink! Going back to kneeling at the altar and receiving on the tongue might get to point across. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 233 | The GREATEST contagion to belief in the Real Presence, is a Holy Priest who so deeply believes in the Real Presence himself that he can’t help but show it! Period. Nuns and Priests who share their own genuine belief teach by example. My pastor shares home traditions with us that helps families practice the faith at home. We need that kind of exemplary example to foster our families. | Personal Witness |
| 234 | ALL of the above, I do not believe there's 1 quick answer | Multiple Recommendations |
| 235 | Reminding the faithful that the Mass is worshiping God, not ourselves. Celebrate ad orientem and sing the Mass itself instead of honey homocentric pop songs that make us feel good about ourselves. Emphasize the Mass as our participation in the work of Christ on our behalf instead of what we do. Stop trying to make people feel good about themselves and worry more about saving their souls. | Catechesis, Return to Tradition |
| 236 | I believe both option 2, catechize the faithful, option 3 greater reverence for Eucharist, and option 6 eliminate extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion as this is often abused and misused. I have witnessed there being 8 EM FOR A SMALL PARISH!!!! This is not acceptable. We need to be discouraging clapping during mass and limit all the announcements during NO mass. | Catechesis, Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Reverence |
| 237 | All choices would be good but the most important thing is to bring back a sense of MYSTERY around the altar. Our priests, deacons and servers must behave as if what's happening there is real. Lex credendi, lex orandi. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 238 | I want two of these as best - receive kneeling and ax the “extraordinary” (which have become FAR TOO ORDINARY) ministers | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 239 | More education on the Eucharist so that parishioners may have a deeper understanding of Christ’s presence | Catechesis |
| 240 | Really specify what harms and sins merit abstaining from the Eucharist | Confession, Catechesis |
| 241 | Catechize them in how the Old Testament foreshadows the Eucharist as well! | Catechesis |
| 242 | Allow other faiths to receive | Other |
| 243 | All of the above?? | Multiple Recommendations |
| 244 | I’m military and I’ve seen time and again how what leadership treats as important (not just in word but in deed) sets the tone for everyone else. | Leadership Reforms, Personal Witness |
| 245 | Bringing back the TLM would take care of all those issues, because they’re all important and would make a difference. | Return to Tradition |
| 246 | All of the above , without exception | Multiple Recommendations |
| 247 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 248 | End the sexual revolution's influence on the Mass: the Novus Ordo as prescribed by Vatican II is a profound Mass. | Return to Tradition |
| 249 | Getti ng rid of a morally corrupt episcopate that are poisoning the faith. | Leadership Reforms |
| 250 | Encourage - or at least don't discourage - ad orientem in the Novus Ordo. | Return to Tradition |
| 251 | The restoration of the traditional Latin mass and please please bring back altar rails and receiving on the tongue while kneeling | Return to Tradition |
| 252 | Offer adoration, teach on its value, encourage frequent confession, teach the truth even when unpopular. | Confession, Catechesis, Adoration |
| 253 | every church should have an adoration chapel open 24/7 | Adoration |
| 254 | Make the TLM mandatory and forbid the New Order | Return to Tradition |
| 255 | Build more and preserve glorious Catholic spaces. The Hollywood Monastery closed in the last year for no real reason. Beautiful Catholic spaces remind people how sacred our religion is and inspires the masses. Many churches look like conference rooms. Los Angeles is a very large city but has few if any Latin Mass offerings. I am interested in the Monastery of the Angels reopening and becoming a place that the public is invited to. Many tried to support it and it’s disheartening that it closed with no true explanation why Catholics would give up such a location. | Return to Tradition |
| 256 | End the Novus Ordo immediately, mandating all priests to exclusively offer the true Roman Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 257 | All of the above plus, I would recommend reaching out to the Society of St. Pius X and other Traditional communities to round out your Coalition. Though there are a great many leaders on your team, there is a Traditional 'hole' that really needs to be filled. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 258 | Eliminate the Novus Ordo | Return to Tradition |
| 259 | N/a | Other |
| 260 | All of the above are major in my opinion. Doesn’t our Lord merit everything we could possibly do and infinitely more? Yes. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 261 | I wanted to choose 2. I think reminding the faithful communion does not absolve mortal sins. There’s a stark contrast in reverent parishes to non reverent parishes. In reverent parishes it’s about a 70/30 split of those who receive and those who don’t. In non reverent parishes basically 99% of people receive. | Reverence |
| 262 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 263 | Sprinkles in more Latin, encourage partaking in the Blessed Sacrament while kneeling (and tongue), and encourage more revenant music (I attended a Novus ordo Mass where they used a kazoo and played a jazzy song, which was completely inappropriate) | Return to Tradition |
| 264 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 265 | Ad orientum mass towards the Tabernacle containing His Body Blood Soul and Divinity. It is assumed in the Novus Ordo Rubrics and taught by the saints and the Tradition of the Church. Face God. Turning away from God is the definition of Sin. | Return to Tradition |
| 266 | Hard to say, my girlfriend talked to me of attending mass(holy days obligation), my grandmother(104) told me to go to confession. We need to somehow get people to mass. I like lay people involvement. | Confession |
| 267 | Priests and deacons should act more reverently. All else will follow | Personal Witness, Reverence |
| 268 | Receiving kneeling and on tongue no Eucharistic ministers | Return to Tradition |
| 269 | All of the above and more. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 270 | return to the Tridentine Mass and fire Bergoglio!!! | Leadership Reforms, Return to Tradition |
| 271 | Return exclusively to the Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 272 | Combination of receiving from a priest only AND on the tongue while kneeling | Return to Tradition |
| 273 | Force reception of kneeling on the tongue with a paten. | Return to Tradition |
| 274 | Publicize the lab tests that confirmed the Eucharist is made of living human heart cells. This is what convinced me completely. | Catechesis |
| 275 | I can’t suggest just one of these. It would create cognitive dissonance and incoherence to increase Eucharistic events but do nothing about communion rails /communion in the hand. The church must courageously identify and address the root causes of the decline in belief in the real presence. The church is in crisis, and the response should be comprehensive and robust, almost like that of doctors responding to a heart attack by addressing all aspects of the issue. Our souls are eternal and we depend on the Eucharist. We must approach the source and summit of our faith with a strong, bold, and holistic solution. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 276 | Restore the law of the Church to receive on the tongue and the stress the importance of receiving worthily | Return to Tradition |
| 277 | I would say without a doubt that reintroducing kneeling and receiving on tongue EXCLUSIVELY from the priest is #1. It completely changed my reverence when I started attending TLM. Sorry but it’s a fact! Never receiving from a lay person again. It’s wayyyy to casual and to be frank disrespectful, for lack of better terms, toward our Lord. People are so ignorant that it’s GOD because we act like a Protestant church in many ways. We’re not supposed to fit in, we’re supposed to stand out. Period. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 278 | Promote the Latin mass as the only mass. | Return to Tradition |
| 279 | Actually, all of the above are most important. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 280 | Return to the TLM which will reduce if not resolve all of these problems. The Mass is a form of catechism. Lex Orandi, lex credendi. | Return to Tradition |
| 281 | MORE SILENCE | Reverence |
| 282 | And receive kneeling on the tongue. Equally important | Return to Tradition |
| 283 | Encouraging reverence sets the tone, but it goes to formation-what is God's divine plan. We need to hear priests guide us about modesty, offering our little sacrifices, fasting and praying more often, and not approving things that outside of God's plan, like separation in marriage, watching inappropriate media, etc. We need to get back to basics or we will lose more generations of Catholics. Priests meeting with groups of women, men, youth-girls, youth-boys, and children to encourage them in their walk. Priests should support homeschooling groups and schools that do not compromise on the beliefs of the faith, including in hiring teachers that abide by the Creed. | Reverence |
| 284 | Most of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 285 | Ad orientem & reemphasis on sacrifice. | Return to Tradition |
| 286 | Focus the youth that no longer attend but are of Catholic families | Other |
| 287 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 288 | Restoration and promotion of the Tridentine Mass which encompasses all of these things within itself. | Return to Tradition |
| 289 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 290 | Returning to Latin prayers in order to unify all Catholics across all languages and nationalities. As well as overt and official recognition of Eucharistic miracles. | Return to Tradition |
| 291 | Put the tabernacle back on the main altar. | Tabernacle Location |
| 292 | all of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 293 | Both kneeling and on the tongue and eliminate extraordinary ministers. Equally damaging | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 294 | Require Real Presence/Catechesis sermons of all priests. | Catechesis |
| 295 | ALL | Multiple Recommendations |
| 296 | Allow the TLM. The Novus ordo is invalid. | Return to Tradition |
| 297 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 298 | Restore the Traditional Latin Mass. | Return to Tradition |
| 299 | laicize the priests who are practicing perversions | Leadership Reforms |
| 300 | Prosecute the sexual deviants | Leadership Reforms |
| 301 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 302 | Too many of these items need another to substantiate them. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 303 | TLM only. Ignore Bergoglio the heretic | Return to Tradition |
| 304 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 305 | The environment of the church. Return of altar rails, traditional art and architecture, move the Eucharist into a place of prominence | Return to Tradition |
| 306 | Restore the Traditional Latin Mass and phase out the new Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 307 | Selecting one recommendation is a joke, when so many flaws since Vat II have caused he havoc that exists at Mass at present! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 308 | I SUPPORT RECOMMENDATIONS 1, 2, 3, 4, AND 5. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 309 | I seldom attend because of Churches being closed from COVID. Making appointments is ridiculous and a big turnoff. May as well shutdown ALL Churches for good. | Leadership Reforms |
| 310 | personal sanctification through the Mass/Holy Eucharist | Other |
| 311 | All of the above. Jesus is worth it. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 312 | All of the above. Remove the homosexual predators from the seminaries and get back to the Priesthood as Jesus commissioned it to be! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 313 | The promulgation of the TLM and the end of the Novus Ordo liturgy | Return to Tradition |
| 314 | Educate us what sins are mortal, that they needed to be confessed before receiving Communion or you are committing sacrilege, and that you must confess all mortal sins or you are committing blasphemy. Especially those who have sex outside of marriage or are using contraception. Offer NFP classes or promote apps for it. | Catechesis |
| 315 | All of these immediately | Multiple Recommendations |
| 316 | Bringing back receiving Holy Communion at altar rails & using this change as an opportunity to educate on God's dignity & the dignity of the human person (i.e. The Eucharist is Jesus/God and in that sacred moment He is coming to unite with us Body, Blood, Soul, & Divinity) etc. | Return to Tradition |
| 317 | Connect Scripture, Tradition, and Worship to Evangelization, Charity, and Justice | Return to Tradition |
| 318 | All of the above but the combination of reverence and withholding from public officials are the top two in my opinion | Multiple Recommendations |
| 319 | Teach the congregation about Eucharistic miracles. | Catechesis |
| 320 | Clergy needs to act as if they believe. | Personal Witness |
| 321 | All of the above are necessary!!!!!! You can just pick one of them. They are ALL important. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 322 | Offer more confession. | Confession |
| 323 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 324 | All of the above statements | Multiple Recommendations |
| 325 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 326 | THESE ARE EQUALLY IMPORTANT! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 327 | Teach while increasing times for adoration, be an example of devotion | Catechesis, Adoration, Personal Witness |
| 328 | Catechize the faithful and withhold the Eucharist from public officials who obstinately reject Catholic teaching. | Canon 915, Catechesis |
| 329 | A generous time of Silence after reception of the Eucharist | Reverence |
| 330 | Sexual abuse by priests, terrible RCIA in most Catholic parishes, Rome corruption, a non-Catholic Pope. I could go on!! | Leadership Reforms |
| 331 | all of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 332 | Invite people to respond to the Gospel and then catechize them in stages | Catechesis |
| 333 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 334 | Better Catechesis and altar rails to receive kneeling and receiving on tongue go hand in hand you have to understand why you’re doing something or at the very least it helps | Return to Tradition |
| 335 | Bring back the traditions and the traditional Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 336 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 337 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 338 | Make reconciliation more available - before mass like before. | Confession |
| 339 | how can you improve people's faith in the Real Presence without doing all of these and more. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 340 | Stop being self-righteous, arrogant and cruel. | Other |
| 341 | All of the above including exclusive of the Tridentine Latin Mass in a canonically regular status. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 342 | return to tradition, and work from there. Please, we need you. Many of us are willing to travel 4 hours for a Mass as we truly believe in our faith, and we know that our priests are true shepherds, but such priests are either over worked and cannot perform to their best, or they just aren't there. But we are being failed by the church. | Return to Tradition |
| 343 | Return to the Tridentine Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 344 | All of above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 345 | catechize about reverence in dress, genuflecting, worthy reception, including withholding communion from those who publicly reject Catholic teaching. | Canon 915, Catechesis, Reverence |
| 346 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 347 | Bring people to a close relationship to Christ which can illuminate everything in regards to catechizing. | Catechesis |
| 348 | All the above are #1. Nothing else matters. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 349 | Per Council of Trent, only a priest with consecrated fingers is supposed to ever touch the Eucharist. A Deacon only in an emergency | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 350 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 351 | All of the above!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 352 | They should have the humility to admit that after all these 50+ years, the fruits of Vatican 2 have contributed to the lack of belief in the presence of Our Blessed Lord in the Eucharist. Once and for all, eliminate Extraordinary Ministers of the Holy Communion, whose hands are unconsecrated. Many NO Catholics attend the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass only on Sundays; and yet they do not even have the privilege of receiving Communion from their own priest. Why would they believe then, that any layperson should be given such an honor? | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 353 | Eliminate contemporary music that has a deadly secularizing effect on the Mass, replace it with genuine traditional Catholic chant in the vernacular or Latin or a mixture. Invest in educating music directors, pay they a reasonable salary, and treat them as respected members of parish lay ministry, no more ignorant incompetent volunteers who scratch and hammer at the piano. Sorry about the rant but earplugs would be a great worship aid. | Return to Tradition |
| 354 | all of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 355 | Eliminate anyone with non consecrated hands to administer Holy Communion | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 356 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 357 | All of these are critical | Multiple Recommendations |
| 358 | There should have a year highlighting the Sacrament of Confession prior to the Year of the Eucharist. If so many are ok with using Contraception or missing Mass on Sundays, etc., our lives must be right with God first | Confession |
| 359 | Reverence, catechize, Eucharistic events, withhold the Eucharist from anyone who rejects the catholic teaching. | Canon 915, Catechesis, Reverence |
| 360 | Universally restore the TLM | Return to Tradition |
| 361 | Exclusively Offer The Traditional Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 362 | Greater (MUCH greater) availability of the TLM. | Return to Tradition |
| 363 | Bring back the Tridentine Rite. | Return to Tradition |
| 364 | Return to the Tridentine Mass exclusively | Return to Tradition |
| 365 | Quit being ‘milquetoast’ during the homily. Speak about the evil we are confronting in our culture. | Catechesis |
| 366 | Education on transubstantiation and kneeling while receiving the Holy Eucharist on the tongue by clergy only | Return to Tradition |
| 367 | Go back to before V II - Better yet go back to The Council of Trent | Return to Tradition |
| 368 | All of them, in addition to allowing the Latin Masses to grow unrestricted. They should be granted when there is the first request. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 369 | Flood the news with the scientific evidence of Eucharistic Miracles. People just don't know about them! | Catechesis |
| 370 | Remove all restrictions on the Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 371 | restore the Tridentine Latin Mass to every parish | Return to Tradition |
| 372 | All of the above!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 373 | Second, and very close, is withholding the Eucharist from public officials who openly reject Church teaching | Canon 915 |
| 374 | The way the priest handles and speaks of the Sacred Species. | Personal Witness, Reverence |
| 375 | Our Bishop is hurting good priest and lay people and is very leftist | Leadership Reforms |
| 376 | Live like YOU believe in the Real Presence | Personal Witness |
| 377 | All of the above 🙂 | Multiple Recommendations |
| 378 | Restore TLM & traditional calendar at every parish, retire NOM | Return to Tradition |
| 379 | Repent of sin and wickedness and be shepherds as Jesus taught. | Leadership Reforms |
| 380 | Promote the Mass young families love: the traditional Latin Mass. | Return to Tradition |
| 381 | I feel that catechization and encouraging reverence would go hand in hand | Catechesis |
| 382 | Teach the orthodox catholic faith instead of the modernism that you bishops have been teaching for yrs. | Catechesis |
| 383 | There isn’t one thing that needs to be prioritized over another. This is like looking at a quadruple amputee and asking which limb to re-attach first. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 384 | All of the above except the last (but only use them for major events or at gigantic parishes) and with the realization that diplomacy doesn’t always make withholding the Eucharist to certain public officials possible | Multiple Recommendations |
| 385 | Do ALL of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 386 | Return to Latin Traditional Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 387 | Making missionary disciples (book) build Catholic community, teach others about the faith, send them to build up their own disciples. Young people just aren’t interested in the Mass, unless they had an encounter. Many young people fall away. I’d honestly recommend having FOCUS at more parishes. I believe in it 100%, they do great work | Catechesis |
| 388 | Emphasis on Confession, plus Eucharistic reception on the tongue. | Confession, Return to Tradition |
| 389 | I'm a TradCat and all of the above are performed in my church. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 390 | Disbelief that one is worthy, that one is really loved by God and believing one has to choose between parents and God when most families are broken. | Other |
| 391 | All of the above!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 392 | Mandate how to receive Eucharist reverently while teaching why. | Catechesis, Reverence |
| 393 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 394 | All of the above! Plus, emphasize the need for confession and being in a state of grace before receiving the Eucharist | Multiple Recommendations |
| 395 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 396 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 397 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 398 | Preserve and increase the Traditional Latin Mass. All of these recommendations are important, but are so interconnected that I cannot choose one of these to be the top priority. In the TLM, by virtue of the rubrics for the liturgy, there is already a sense of greater reverence for our Eucharistic Lord, much better catechesis, communion on the tongue while kneeling, no one but the priest handling the sacred species, and more silence that would allow for my prayer. In summary, restoring the ancient liturgy and normalizing it again will result in a greater (if not, full) belief in the Real Presence. | Return to Tradition |
| 399 | I am presently a member of a parish with 6 days of Confession before Holy Mass but I think priests should emphasize Confession and receiving Holy Communion in the state of grace and genuflecting or bowing in reverence before receiving. And Thanksgiving after Holy Communion. | Confession |
| 400 | All of the above. You cannot separate the issues. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 401 | Both increased catechizes and increased Eucharistic events they go Hand in hand | Catechesis |
| 402 | All the above !!!! Especially receiving communion in the tongue, and not giving communion to public figures who are outspoken against Church teachings | Multiple Recommendations |
| 403 | All of the these are necessary! When I was raised in the Latin Mass AND I miss it! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 404 | All of the above!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 405 | None of the above will bring people back to the church. Returning to Vatican 1 will absolutely not bring people back to the church. Encourage acceptance and forgiveness like Jesus taught. Prosecute abusers and pay the victims | Other |
| 406 | Catechesis on the existence, nature, qualities of God that can be known by simple philosophy that even children can comprehend and use of 21st century science to debunk the evolutionary origins belief they get from school and the culture. | Catechesis |
| 407 | Kneeling for Eucharist and Mass Ad Orientem. | Return to Tradition |
| 408 | Increase confession times. You assume too much. | Confession |
| 409 | I can’t choose—all are needed desperately! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 410 | All of the above are equally important to get back to sacred tradition. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 411 | provide opportunities to help lay people learn more about their faith and how to apply it personally. | Catechesis |
| 412 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 413 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 414 | ALL THE ABOVE! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 415 | all of the above, especially Catechize the faithful (e.g., transubstantiation, worthy reception, etc.) | Multiple Recommendations |
| 416 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 417 | Catechize the faithful of its importance | Catechesis |
| 418 | Even more than catechize the faithful. Teach reverence. Share real experiences in your homilies. | Catechesis |
| 419 | Increase the faith of the Celebrants | Leadership Reforms |
| 420 | Teach about fragments of the Eucharist lost in most parishes due to reception in the hand. Teach about how to stop that desecration. | Catechesis |
| 421 | Ensure that they ordain only priests actually believe in the Catholic faith. | Leadership Reforms |
| 422 | Withhold the Eucharist from public officials who blatantly Reject the Catholic teaching, eliminate extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, more respect in church and during Mass; silence, no cleavage, modest dress, increase fasting time, parents of noisy/crying/distracting children to be respectful of the Sacrifice at which they are present - respectful of the priest and parishioners | Canon 915, Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Reverence |
| 423 | Promote and teach the Traditional Latin Mass, all other above topics will naturally follow | Return to Tradition |
| 424 | Offer traditional Latin mass exclusively in all parishes and abandon post conciliar sacraments. | Return to Tradition |
| 425 | All of the above, duh. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 426 | Act like Catholic bishops instead of corporate managers. | Leadership Reforms |
| 427 | Denounce LGBTQ and woke beliefs in front of Gen X. Educate Gen X that Jesus Christ is more important than inclusion. | Catechesis |
| 428 | Ordain many more priests; defeat clericalism; your questions are poorly, poorly worded, with a presumption that you assume and set the questions up from that presumption | Catechesis, Other |
| 429 | Eliminate lay distributers, encourage kneeling and on the tongue. Catechize about the Real Presence. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 430 | Bring back the Communion rails and eliminate extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 431 | All the above need to be implemented because they all lead to this mess. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 432 | Evangelize people in this culture, especially cradle Catholics | Catechesis |
| 433 | Bring back the mass as a reverent sacrifice; i.e. the priest should be facing the Eucharist not the faithful, only the priest can administer the Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling, no female servers, modest dress, catechize the faithful, etc.. | Return to Tradition |
| 434 | Only offer the Tridentine Mass exclusively. | Return to Tradition |
| 435 | Celebrate the traditional Latin Mass with beautiful music as much as possible. | Return to Tradition |
| 436 | Education from the womb to the tomb | Catechesis |
| 437 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 438 | Eliminate extraordinary ministers, receiving Holy Communion kneeling on the tongue, modesty back in Mass, education on receiving in a state of grace | Catechesis, Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 439 | I can’t choose only one option. All of these measures need to be taken to increase belief in the Real Presence. Reverence is greatly lacking. It won’t be until we show people how serious Holy Communion is, will people take it seriously. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 440 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 441 | Offering the Traditional Latin Mass Brings Reverence To The Eucharist, Offer The Traditional Mass More Frequently. | Return to Tradition |
| 442 | I would combine all of the above suggestions along with a belief in the foundation of our faith which is, by His Word (Logos) God created everything supernaturally as stated in the Creed we recite every Sunday and as clearly taught in the Catechism of the Council of Trent. Otherwise you have the absurdity of death being present in the world for billions of years before the Fall of our first parents. Among many more absurdities which are unreconcilable with a true and clear understanding of our Beautiful and Holy Catholic Faith. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 443 | Eliminate extraordinary ministers and ALSO encourage reception of the Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 444 | All of thee above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 445 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 446 | Challenge schismatics undermining church authority. | Leadership Reforms |
| 447 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 448 | I have moved to parishes to find a priest that will administer the Eucharist to me on my tongue. | Return to Tradition |
| 449 | Encourage ad oriented celebration of the Mass to “open the circle” and orient the liturgy to the transcendent | Return to Tradition |
| 450 | All of above is needed | Multiple Recommendations |
| 451 | All of the answers | Multiple Recommendations |
| 452 | People need to understand why we believe what we profess. This is the basis for joyful communion with all we hold dear. Even the gift of mystery in our faith is helpful in acceptance of The Catholic faith. | Catechesis |
| 453 | Again, make the Eucharist relevant to the people. Why does it matter? How does it help them personally move through probably the wildest and fastest moving period of history. Talk about Eucharistic miracles, and relate them to science. There’s stuff out there. It’s going to take different kinds of witness to different kinds of people. The methods that may have traditionally worked for 500 years no longer work now. Get used to it. | Catechesis |
| 454 | Receive host on tongue only, emphasize more reverence (i.e. returning some Latin to mass) | Return to Tradition |
| 455 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 456 | Priests - stop rushing through the words of consecration, but be more reverent and deliberate. If priests treat the Eucharist sloppily, so will the people. | Reverence |
| 457 | Be shepherds and not dicks. | Other |
| 458 | There is not just one thing that will improve people's belief. There has been a general stripping off everything promoting belief in the real presence. If they want to know how to restore belief in the Real Presence, they need to look at the parishes that are overflowing with young families. Sacred music, ad orientem, communion rails, Latin prayers, Eucharistic processions, 24/7 adoration. | Adoration, Multiple Recommendations, Return to Tradition |
| 459 | Education of the faithful on living a life Catholic discipleship that is joyful! | Catechesis |
| 460 | Preach the gospel by leading Holy lives. | Personal Witness |
| 461 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 462 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 463 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 464 | Live out the Church's teachings, stop being concerned with legal liability and love the poor & vulnerable | Leadership Reforms |
| 465 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 466 | None of the above is remotely helpful | Other |
| 467 | Increase education on worthy reception of the Eucharist; focusing on confession, prayer outside of the Holy Mass, etc. Many are ignorant they live in a state of Mortal Sin | Catechesis |
| 468 | Come up with something other than archaic "transubstantiation." | Other |
| 469 | All of the above!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 470 | This is where you survey goes terribly wrong you only let us pick one answer in truth I would answer the last question “all of the above “ . So I feel you survey is worthless. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 471 | One thing won’t work. It must be a combination of things encouraging reverence | Multiple Recommendations, Reverence |
| 472 | Catechizing the faithful and more Eucharistic events. Praise and worship adoration | Catechesis |
| 473 | All the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 474 | Bring back the Latin Mass. | Return to Tradition |
| 475 | Develop personal relationship with Jesus that makes it clear that He is really present. Be Christ to others and stop squabbling amongst ourselves. | Other |
| 476 | Receiving on tongue kneeling FROM A PRIEST OR DECON. | Return to Tradition |
| 477 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 478 | Receive on tongue, and absolutely no women on the altar at all. No Eucharistic ministers (this from a former female Eucharistic minister) | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 479 | All of the above. #1 Recommendation is to simply be unapologetically and integrally Catholic as our forbears were. This fundamental decision simply to serve and glorify God above all else is what’s required; no more and no less, and it’s all encompassing. No one measure above, in isolation, will “solve” the current Eucharistic Crisis. If I absolutely had to choose one it would be to restore reception of the Eucharist to kneeling and in the tongue EXCLUSIVELY and outlawing Communion in the hand. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 480 | Allow holy mass to be said at the high alters. Not allowed in the archdiocese of Cincinnati. | Return to Tradition |
| 481 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 482 | All of the above are necessary if we are going to be successful. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 483 | Sacred Music (Gregorian Chant) along with reception on the tongue/encouraging greater reverence toward the Eucharist | Return to Tradition |
| 484 | Continue to Pray to St Michael for soul of the church | Prayer |
| 485 | Focus on the fact that there is no community within the Church and you're losing young families and young people who don't feel that the Church cares or notices them | Other |
| 486 | Reverence to the Eucharist but in how the priest hold it and celebrates Mass in addition piety in communion line (communion music) silence after, prayerfully coming & going from the sanctuary. | Reverence |
| 487 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 488 | All of the above!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 489 | Politicians who do not support the right to life should (Biden) not be allowed the Eucharist's | Canon 915 |
| 490 | Eliminate extraordinarily ministers, communion kneeling and on the tongue | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 491 | Catechize the faithful & Withhold the Eucharist from Catholics who publicly reject Catholic teachings, (not limit it to public officials). | Canon 915, Catechesis |
| 492 | It starts with competent impactful catechesis but it must go hand in hand with actions during Mass that prove we really believe the teaching. This is a good opportunity for the bishops to use the 'positive deviance' methodology that fed so many starving children in Vietnam, to best identify what those actions are in existing parishes across all rites, including but not limited to trad Latin, standard, and the Eastern rites. | Catechesis |
| 493 | Restore the traditional Latin Mass to all altars. | Return to Tradition |
| 494 | maintain The Tridentine Mass where the faithful wish it | Return to Tradition |
| 495 | Eucharistic Miracles must be talked about and published far and wide! | Catechesis |
| 496 | Greater Liturgical reverence and piety by the priest and servers | Reverence |
| 497 | Eliminate Eucharistic ministers AND only receive while kneeling on the tongue unless medically/physically unable to | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 498 | Please help us survive the many scandals and dangers that are threatening the Church from within. Then please teach us about transubstantiation and worthy reception! | Leadership Reforms, Catechesis |
| 499 | I think they are all important | Multiple Recommendations |
| 500 | Priests who passionately Believe in the Real Presence. And in times when these priests may have difficulty in believing, they know how to be deeply reverent toward the Eucharist anyway. With that, nearly everything else will fall In line. And the converse holds as well. | Personal Witness, Reverence |
| 501 | promotion of traditional liturgy | Return to Tradition |
| 502 | Stop asking for money | Other |
| 503 | Expanding the Latin Mass will solve all the issues listed. | Return to Tradition |
| 504 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 505 | This is tough because all of these are good suggestions, but I think receiving Eucharist on the tongue kneeling is the best. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 506 | Live Joy filled lives that show impact of Eucharistic presence to all we encounter. | Personal Witness |
| 507 | Better catechesis, but also opportunities to encounter Christ. | Catechesis |
| 508 | Priests working to catechize the faithful and also praying for the conversion and personal holiness of the members of the parish. Having the priests more involved in ministries and activities with youth and having religious involved as well. Better Catechesis for families through some kind of ministry and outreach | Catechesis |
| 509 | Cici Lety, More reverence priest facing the east elected officials not receiving communion They believe in abortion | Reverence |
| 510 | Encourage receiving the Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling FROM THE PRIEST. | Return to Tradition |
| 511 | Stop abusing children, stop taking people's money, stop believing in fairy tales, get a real job. | Other |
| 512 | ALL OF THESENSHOULD BE DONE | Multiple Recommendations |
| 513 | Ad orientem | Return to Tradition |
| 514 | All of these. #6 is least important. #5 would be good. But 1-4 are necessary | Multiple Recommendations |
| 515 | Put back altar rails and encourage communion kneeling and on tongue. That keeps altar as a holy place. Holy of holies. Receiving while kneeling and on the tongue. Altar rails help to keep the altar as a holy place. Loon. | Return to Tradition |
| 516 | Go back to the TLM and emphasize the Sacrifice taking place at the altar | Return to Tradition |
| 517 | with the elimination of extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion - I think both need to happen together. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 518 | I think it is equally important to catechize the faithful of all ages, and for priests and other clergy to set examples and encourage greater reverence. | Catechesis, Personal Witness, Reverence |
| 519 | Educate receiving Jesus WORTHILY, deny Holy Communion to known rejections of the faith, especially the Holy Eucharist | Catechesis |
| 520 | Public repentance to how they have destroyed the faith | Leadership Reforms |
| 521 | The priest needs to walk among the people more and stop running a business. Be real ! Be at hospital beds and at real life events to help the faithful know they are loved. The lost sheep need shepherds that care ! | Personal Witness |
| 522 | All of the above need serious attention if one is to believe in the Real Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 523 | Allowing the TLM everywhere would encompass all these great suggestions. | Return to Tradition |
| 524 | How about Holy silence | Return to Tradition |
| 525 | Bring back the mass codified by PIUS V with the rubrics and practices and standards with it. | Return to Tradition |
| 526 | Have the Traditional Latin Mass available EVERYWHERE. Everything else on the list above will follow and more. | Return to Tradition |
| 527 | A well catechized congregation, should bring all the others to fruition. | Catechesis |
| 528 | Everyone should be more reverent when receiving our Lord on their knees and on their tongue. More reverence for the sacrifice of the mass | Return to Tradition, Reverence |
| 529 | I could not answer Question #15 correctly because I have not attended a Novus Ordo Mass. | Other |
| 530 | Do not allow men with homosexual proclivities to become priests, and laicize the current ones who are | Leadership Reforms |
| 531 | I tried to choose just one, but I believe all those options are very important and need to be done simultaneously. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 532 | unification with Christ through Redemptive Suffering | Other |
| 533 | all of above !! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 534 | Abandonment of the Novus ordo entirely because it divides the faithful and undermines the essential nature and value of Tradition. | Return to Tradition |
| 535 | The clergy at all levels need to believe in the Real Presence and act and talk as if they do, and get back to supporting what the Church has taught, stop the confusion. | Leadership Reforms |
| 536 | All the above! Especially receive kneeling/on the tongue | Multiple Recommendations |
| 537 | All of the above are of the utmost importance. All of them need to be reinstated across the board. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 538 | Offer Mass facing liturgical east | Return to Tradition |
| 539 | ALL of the above!!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 540 | ALL OF THE ABOVE! Be Brave! Speak up for the Faith! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 541 | More Adoration! | Adoration |
| 542 | Bishops are too mundane and lack of sanctity | Leadership Reforms |
| 543 | Catechize the church community in the richness of or faith. | Catechesis |
| 544 | My #1 recommendation is catechize and all the above. On the previous question you asked how often I attend the TLM. The option wasn't given but I attend weekly but during the week there is no option to attend the TLM so I attend the Novus Ordo | Multiple Recommendations, Catechesis |
| 545 | All the above. I used to be Eucharistic minister until I realized my hands are not consecrated. This is where undermining the priests holy hands/priesthood and Real presence is undermined. The church has failed in many respects. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 546 | Receive kneeling on the tongue with patens, no0 Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 547 | Release all restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass. In the “free market” of grace, the Church will see the good fruits and leave the Novus Ordo Missae behind accomplishing all of the goals above | Return to Tradition |
| 548 | Homily that regularly emphasizes the sanctity of life and the importance evil of abortion. Not heard enough! | Catechesis |
| 549 | Replace the CCD model of catechesis. It does not work! | Catechesis |
| 550 | None of the these matter if people don’t even know it’s Jesus - my cradle Catholic husband went to Catholic elementary, high school, college and medical school and still hadn’t understood it because as an entirety as a Church we don’t convey that even to children. Catechesis has to be continual in all we do, not just the occasional class our visual messaging is completely confused, we have an extremely casual attitude toward worship, so it’s no surprise that people don’t believe, why would they? | Other |
| 551 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 552 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 553 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 554 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 555 | All of the above & CATECHIZE! There are generations that have failed to be properly catechized. If it wasn’t for my parents, I’m not sure where my siblings would be. The Church has failed to adequately teach the faith, instead seemingly giving in to popular culture in a number of issues(James Martin). Our youth are intelligent & thirsting for what is true, good & beautiful! Feed them instead of encouraging sinful behavior. I was educated in ‘Catholic’ institutions through college & unfortunately, I learned nothing about the Truth in these institutions. We need our shepherds to lead! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 556 | High Latin Mass at 9 AM in every parish | Return to Tradition |
| 557 | Reintroduce to the Faithful their acts of Sacrifice are required for a worthy offering and Communion. | Catechesis |
| 558 | Restore the Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 559 | All above, if I have to choose only 1 then Eliminate Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion or give them gloves or something so they don't touch the Holy Eucharist. But all other above together would make a bigger impact on people. | Multiple Recommendations, Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 560 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 561 | Definitely all of the above!!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 562 | All the above should be applied. Also I want to attend Latin mass but it is not offer in the area where I live | Multiple Recommendations |
| 563 | Increase the fast to 3 hours or more | Return to Tradition |
| 564 | Bishops and priests have to walk the walk by leading by example with courage and humility. The rest will then fall in line. | Personal Witness |
| 565 | Focus on the miracles associated with the Eucharist please!!! | Catechesis |
| 566 | Remove Vatican II. Read the thesis.us | Return to Tradition |
| 567 | Return to Catholic social teaching and stop right-wing rhetoric | Other |
| 568 | The importance of receiving on the tongue | Return to Tradition |
| 569 | All off the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 570 | All of the above are #1 !!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 571 | Apologize for withholding the Real Presence during covid but not to rabidly pro-abort catholic politicians | Leadership Reforms, Canon 915 |
| 572 | I can’t choose among #1, 4 & 6; all 3 need to be done. But if they do #1 then maybe #4 & 6 will follow because who wants to receive on the tongue from a EMoHO and of them who wants to give the Eucharist that way? And obstinate sinners won’t want to kneel or kneeling will bring them to their senses. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 573 | Restoration of Rite and reverence by clergy, reverent reception by entire Church | Reverence |
| 574 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 575 | I believe the TLM would fix everything that's wrong with the Catholic Church. I no longer attend Mass in the St. Cloud diocese because of its irrelevance. The NO leaves me cold. I have considered a move to the SSPX. The more I think about it, the more I justify it. What's happening to faithful Priests and Bishops because of our current Vicar's ideology is appalling. | Return to Tradition |
| 576 | All of the above! It is ignored in my parish. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 577 | I believe the Eucharist is JESUS because HE said it is in HIS HOLY WORD. JESUS also forgave the thief on the cross who knew nothing about HIM, except (apparently) what was said of JESUS on the street. | Other |
| 578 | I can you are traditional Catholic in schism with th church. You want to torture and burn heretics. Shame on you | Other |
| 579 | Our Diocese has great reverence and teaching. | Catechesis |
| 580 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 581 | All of these will have an impact but even stronger than encouraging #1 the USXC should make kneeling and receiving on the tongue the norm. People can stand if they cannot kneel and can revive in the hand if they are sick but otherwise the new norm is kneeling not standing and in the tongue | Multiple Recommendations |
| 582 | Reject New Mass and Vatican 2 | Return to Tradition |
| 583 | All of these need to be done if anything is going to change | Multiple Recommendations |
| 584 | Celebrating the TLM and teaching the faithful Catholic doctrine | Catechesis, Return to Tradition |
| 585 | Use Communion rails would be the hugest way to bring back reverence for the Eucharist | Return to Tradition |
| 586 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 587 | I think encouraging reverence and events with catechesis as to why we should do these things as Catholics go hand in hand. If we don't teach the reasons and share how much our reverence pleases the Lord, Catholics will continue to treat the Eucharist without respect. | Catechesis, Reverence |
| 588 | Allow the Traditional Latin Mass to thrive in their diocese. Everyone benefits. | Return to Tradition |
| 589 | Our Church needs to accept that it (especially the pastors) are in a maintenance mode. The old people do everything (Lectors, EM, Parish leadership) and there are no young people in the pipeline. I would recommend that the Bishops take some bold action and create new parishes just for the young people. Provide a young priest and let the young people run the parish. If we don't do something different we are going to be closing a lot of parishes in the next 5 years. Thank you for listening. | Leadership Reforms |
| 590 | All the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 591 | All of the above. Catholics need it all. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 592 | You need to have an option for have attended the EF but no longer do so. We need living example of other Catholics, restored order of Sacraments, and, most importantly, catechesis that integrates instruction in authentic virtue (not jumping straight to heroic virtue, but e.g. cardinal virtues in daily life) with the “academic” teaching of the Truths of the Faith. | Catechesis |
| 593 | It is a combination of kneeling and receiving on the tongue along with proper understanding on our Faith and why we do what we do- The Sacramental life -Catechized with love | Catechesis, Return to Tradition |
| 594 | actually all of the above certainly apply | Multiple Recommendations |
| 595 | All the above except the last Because of the times we are living in and the priest shortage, the only thing I suggest is to do everything in the churches Grace to eliminate abuse treat others the way you would want to be treated. In other words, treat our Lord with the purest of love amen. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 596 | While all are of some importance - catechesis and encouraging Eucharistic adoration are very very important | Catechesis |
| 597 | Support and encourage priests who are reverent and teach the truths of the faith instead of persecuting them and canceling them | Leadership Reforms |
| 598 | Honor and love Our Holy Father Pope Francis. Don’t talk bad about him, defend him as you would you own father. | Other |
| 599 | All of these choices are important. Each one is necessary. None of them alone would improve belief, but if all were instituted, belief would follow. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 600 | Stop talking politics during homily | Leadership Reforms |
| 601 | Ban the Latin Mass and excommunicate Peter Kwasniewski | Other |
| 602 | DEFEND, PROMOTE, EDUCATE ON, AND PERSONALLY OFFER THE TLM | Return to Tradition |
| 603 | Mandate at least one parish in every diocese to offer a daily traditional Roman rite Mass, by a trained priest. | Return to Tradition |
| 604 | Encourage and support faithful, solid Catholic schools | Catechesis |
| 605 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 606 | Number one, with proviso from the hands of a priest | Return to Tradition |
| 607 | All of the above. Catechesis is probably primary because it all stems from there. The domestic church is only possible if young married couples know and love their faith. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 608 | Emphasize the fact that the Eucharist is not a " Substance" but a "Person" | Catechesis |
| 609 | Bring back the traditional mass as prescribed in Vatican II which is different than what was implemented - Kneelers, tongue, genuflecting, attire, head coverings, adoration, fasting....it's all in there and still the "norm", not the exception. | Return to Tradition |
| 610 | Make sure priests do the red and say the black, and not deviate from or add to the text provided; also, ad orientem; and follow proper rubrics for all activity regarding the Holy Eucharist (including adoration ) | Return to Tradition |
| 611 | There is no 1 solution. A combination of all of the above would be best. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 612 | There are few role models for people - we need holy men as priests who love and adore their God. Start there the others will follow. The priests reverence for the Eucharistic celebration and his attitude and leadership will have the greatest impact. Altar rails or not make little difference in desiring to receive the Eucharist. It comes from modeling, teaching and silence | Personal Witness, Reverence |
| 613 | Restore ad orientem | Return to Tradition |
| 614 | I believe that all of the above are important! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 615 | Everything is connected and important | Multiple Recommendations |
| 616 | Seamless Garment: Bishops must believe, and act like they do. | Leadership Reforms, Personal Witness |
| 617 | All of them are important! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 618 | TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS. It teaches us all things necessary for profound belief in the Real Presence. | Return to Tradition |
| 619 | ALL of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 620 | Eliminate homosexual clergy | Leadership Reforms |
| 621 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 622 | All of the above, seriously! All of them effect the others and are NECESSARY! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 623 | Remind/educate laypeople on the real presence. Catechism educates new Catholics, however older Catholics may not be aware, such as my 85 year old grandfather. Also, no longer ministering communion in the hand | Catechesis |
| 624 | ALL of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 625 | Exclusive TLM, as before | Return to Tradition |
| 626 | stop pretending that you know why the universe exists. | Other |
| 627 | Remove Jesuits, Fake Francis, Deep State | Leadership Reforms |
| 628 | Remind people to be in the state of grace. Explain what that means. | Confession |
| 629 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 630 | All of the choices in the last question! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 631 | Use scripture to support Catholicism. Remove the current pope who doesn’t line up with Biblical teachings. | Leadership Reforms |
| 632 | All of the above. It's a package deal. You can't just focus on o e without all. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 633 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 634 | Get back to teaching the BALTIMORE CATECHISM | Catechesis |
| 635 | Introducing daily prayer in the life of the laity. | Prayer |
| 636 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 637 | Continue the old mass | Return to Tradition |
| 638 | I couldn’t choose one, they are all so important- I just want to at add that having the laity receive under both species with all the other pre conditions is just as important | Multiple Recommendations |
| 639 | Reverence and truth of Catholic teaching | Reverence |
| 640 | Eliminate girl altar servers. More frequent benedictions and holy hours. | Return to Tradition |
| 641 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 642 | set a better example. start with above recommendation 2 and 3 | Multiple Recommendations |
| 643 | options #2 catechize, #3 Encourage reverence, #4 Withhold | Canon 915, Catechesis, Reverence |
| 644 | Better communication are needed, sermons a must, not 5 min. sermons.. | Catechesis |
| 645 | Get to Know the Parishioner's, learn who your flock is, those practicing and those not. | Leadership Reforms |
| 646 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 647 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 648 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 649 | All of the above except we need Extra ordinary ministers of the Eucharist to visit the sick and homebound, but must be properly trained | Multiple Recommendations |
| 650 | I have no recommendations. | Other |
| 651 | Clean up the sexual and financial sins in the hierarchy | Leadership Reforms |
| 652 | Eliminate from the clergy all men with homosexual tendencies | Leadership Reforms |
| 653 | Excommunicate public officials violating Canon 915 | Canon 915 |
| 654 | Tell the people about all the Eucharistic Miracles that have occurred | Catechesis |
| 655 | Better publicize scientific findings of Eucharistic miracles. There are so many of them. The scientifically minded public will then pay attention. | Catechesis |
| 656 | I want to say to catechize the faithful but the clergy needs to know how to do that. | Catechesis |
| 657 | All of the above exception people who cannot kneel should reverently receive our Lord standing and bow to Our Lord. This standing and bowing to the back of the person in front of you is NOT the Lord. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 658 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 659 | ALL OF THE ABOVE ! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 660 | Have pastors, bishops and a pope that are holy men of prayer. | Leadership Reforms |
| 661 | ALL OF THE ABOVE | Multiple Recommendations |
| 662 | Teach deacons, priests, bishops, etc. to exhibit great reverence to Christ in the Eucharist | Reverence |
| 663 | Bring back the communion rails that way the priest must give communion on the tongue while the person is kneeling, and no Eucharistic ministers are involved. | Return to Tradition |
| 664 | only one????? | Multiple Recommendations |
| 665 | Catechize and Increase | Catechesis |
| 666 | I would like confession to go back to confessionals | Confession |
| 667 | all of above are valid | Multiple Recommendations |
| 668 | Praying for this revival in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament! | Adoration |
| 669 | All of the above, plus grow some backbone and stand up for the AUTHENTIC Catholic Faith! Be courageous shepherds, not hired hands! Take your cues from Bishop Strickland and Archbishop Viganó, not the heretical men in the Vatican and in the Chicago Archdiocese. Stand up AGAINST these liars, brood of vipers, whitewashed tombs, etc.! Don't join them! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 670 | Ditch NO. Bring back Latin & Tradition. Explain how powerful & pleasing to God it is. | Return to Tradition |
| 671 | Greater biblical reference | Catechesis |
| 672 | All of the above period | Multiple Recommendations |
| 673 | Emphasis sacredness of host | Catechesis |
| 674 | Bring the TLM back weekly. Turn priest to the East | Return to Tradition |
| 675 | Catechesis & Reverence are equally important | Catechesis, Reverence |
| 676 | Give personal witness by a holy life, love and adoration of the Eucharist while catechizing the faithful during Mass about the real Presence. | Catechesis, Personal Witness |
| 677 | all of the above. Remind the Bishops they have a holy vocation and are responsible for souls. They are not CFO's of a business. I have quit financially supporting my diocese. I do support my church because my priests are very reverent | Multiple Recommendations |
| 678 | Items 2,3,4 above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 679 | Stop worrying about your tax free status and Preach like God is speaking through His prophets. The hour is late. Stop pandering to the sinful politicians stop blacklisting the good ones Strickland, etc. stand up against the chicoms and the liberation theologists. Get that fire in your belly. Preach it , live it, mean it! | Leadership Reforms |
| 680 | It must be made clear, public officials who reject Catholic teaching, withhold communion to public officials who reject catholic teaching. It's becoming the old dime store thinking, of way back. Encourage more young men or boys to be servers at mass. Women do not belong on the altar. I'm with the apostles, serving Jesus. Women have a place, and should not be forgotten. But I'm 87 yr. old, I did serve communion, I read the readings at mass. Now I look back, and wish our church would stand out more, in the Eucharist sacrament,. I believe in parish retreats, done by exemplary priests, who can deliver the message of faith and communion, and everyday hardships, to lead a Catholic life. Many of us, suffer internally because of needing guidance, from a priest. If necessary, to be encouraged to see a catholic counselor. We need more priests for sure, hopefully that will happen. We can study the saints, ordinary lives, leading us to heaven. Lets bring out these magnificent people more, times different from here, but just as human as us. Tell us more in the sermons, like Joan of Arc, and the politics of her death, besides the Angel who spoke to her, How did those apostles meet death, in they're old years, serving Jesus? How did St. Therese of Avila, do what she did, crossing miles, on a horse or burro, meeting officials of the church? How she changed the Order, on life in the Carmelites, ( I think). So much life we don't remember or hear of the apostles following Jesus after He left them, Human stories, of our early church. Where? why?, We need more on the sacraments, especially preparing for it, in our hearts. Preparing for the future, as a Catholic. Facing all the political about life. Not to scare our weak Catholics, they don't need fright presently. But the outlook of happiness of a heart, loving Jesus. Weak Catholics can be encouraged back by the right words and actions of our Clergy, and us in the pews! That is all I can contribute on line right now. Thank you, God speed, Happy to write this, | Canon 915, Return to Tradition |
| 681 | Keep the Latin Mass and stop dismissing good priests because they talk about all the above items. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 682 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 683 | Make sure priests and servers give the same reverence expected of us. | Reverence |
| 684 | restore and encourage TLM | Return to Tradition |
| 685 | all of the above!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 686 | All of the above, but especially at Communion rail, as less invisible fragments of Consecrated Host fall to the floor and are stepped on…. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 687 | ALL OF THE ABOVE | Multiple Recommendations |
| 688 | Reject Vatican ii | Return to Tradition |
| 689 | Catechize people on the Eucharist and encourage greater reverence, and, hopefully, the rest of the above will naturally follow. | Catechesis, Reverence |
| 690 | Permit and establish the Ancient Rite, Traditional Latin Mass, in Low, and Solemn High Worship Ceremonies, in every Parish Church throughout the U.S.A. and the world. Furthermore, the Bishops of U.S.A. should terminate the ministry of Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, including delivery of the Holy Eucharist by such ministers in other, non-church settings. Priests, and men who are ordained in the priestly orders, should carry the True Presence to the person in need of receiving it. | Return to Tradition |
| 691 | Return the kneelers, receive from a priest, on the tongue | Return to Tradition |
| 692 | Do the first and others will follow | Return to Tradition |
| 693 | No females in sanctuary. | Return to Tradition |
| 694 | Has to be a combination of receiving kneeling on the tongue from a priest only. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 695 | Make the TLM widely available - it will do the rest! | Return to Tradition |
| 696 | I think we have to go back to the absolute basics and start teaching about the Jewish roots of the Catholic faith and then people must understand the entire Bible because it does an amazing job of telling the story and how people did not listen and continue not to listen. Do you have Cavins and father? Mike Schmidt have done an amazing job with this Bible in a year and with the catechism! | Catechesis |
| 697 | Returning the tabernacle to the altar and returning the priest to facing God! | Tabernacle Location |
| 698 | Less rigid mass liturgy, with extemporaneous encouragements to accept Grace and reminders of why we are at Mass and what is happening, speak the words that Jesus is WITH us and longs for us to come to Him to be healed and made one; longer homilies about foundational topics, God's undeserved grace, His mercy and forgiveness, His joy in our salvation, preach the Gospel of our Lord who gave His life for us and restores us to our Father! | Other |
| 699 | Every one of those items I want to check. The most important is educating the faithful. I must comment on having EMs. Our parish only has the one priest. Each Sunday Mass (4) is overflowing. He needs the help the EMs give. So although reception from a priest is preferred it is not always practical. | Catechesis, Multiple Recommendations |
| 700 | Show us your own devotion to Jesus in the Eucharist | Personal Witness |
| 701 | all of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 702 | #1 catechism; followed by kneeling to receive then work toward eliminating EMs | Catechesis, Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 703 | More reverence from priests themselves when administering the Holy Eucharist | Reverence |
| 704 | Stop Communion in the hand & NO EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 705 | Put the Eucharist tabernacle back behind the altar where it belongs. The New Mass or Novus Ordo Mass is like the New Coke Formula of 1985. It's not working out. We know it, they know it. No amount of rhetoric they say will get anything done. | Tabernacle Location |
| 706 | This questions should be multiple answers, Tongue, withhold from public officials, Eliminate extraordinary ministers | Multiple Recommendations, Canon 915, Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 707 | They must lead by example and word and tell their priests to do the same. | Leadership Reforms |
| 708 | Restore the Traditional Latin Mass and eliminate Novus Ordo. The difference is clear and obvious. Noted when becoming fully Catholic in 1982. Not the Mass of my childhood when due to family circumstances, I was only irregularly able to attend. | Return to Tradition |
| 709 | Dump this evil, liar Pope and make Bishop Vigano or a true Christian Pope. | Leadership Reforms |
| 710 | If the priest was reverent, convinced, and convincing when handling the Eucharist, all of the issues above would be solved | Personal Witness, Reverence |
| 711 | 1. It is the Holy sacrifice of the Mass. 2. Priest that don’t throw the Eucharist on the paten and hold it up with reverence same with the precious blood. 3. Communion on the tongue | Return to Tradition |
| 712 | Return to the Traditions of Trent | Return to Tradition |
| 713 | Do NOT take this survey or listen to the ‘results’ as reported | Other |
| 714 | Seriously, why can't all of the above be done at once. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 715 | Only offer the Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 716 | Mandate (don't encourage) communion on the tongue while kneeling, and treat it as sacred--holy relics are treated better than the Eucharist, and not giving to manifest public sinners. | Return to Tradition |
| 717 | all of these are so important.....get rid of non traditional bishops | Multiple Recommendations |
| 718 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 719 | It can't be just one thing. First be welcoming and loving to each other. Then catechesis will have an effect. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 720 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 721 | All the above are REQUIRED of all those who are Roman Apostolic Catholics | Multiple Recommendations |
| 722 | Have the priests speak about the chaos in the church, honestly. | Leadership Reforms |
| 723 | All of the above is necessary and will make a profound impact | Multiple Recommendations |
| 724 | Catechize faithful and reverence are both very important along with Adoration/Benediction. | Catechesis |
| 725 | All of the above by returning to the Traditional Latin Mass! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 726 | The use of the communion rail to receive Communion on the tongue while kneeling while also eliminating Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 727 | They need to strengthen their own faith so that others will be strengthened through them. We need our bishops and priests to be saints, not secular people with a collar. When they become holy, blessings will flow from them and we will become holy! | Personal Witness |
| 728 | Teach what Jesus did | Catechesis |
| 729 | Withhold the Eucharistic from anyone that you know who publicly and obstinately rejects Catholic teachings, even if they aren't public officials, but give scandal publicly in your own church community. | Canon 915 |
| 730 | Return to the TLM so that all of the above are included. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 731 | Do not encourage | Other |
| 732 | Family formation. | Catechesis |
| 733 | Return to tradition. Admit that Vatican II was a disaster and return to the Catholic faith. | Return to Tradition |
| 734 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 735 | all of the above and return to TLM | Multiple Recommendations |
| 736 | Not fair to only mark one. By the way, I’m Byzantine; at Easter we approach the shroud on our knees. I do completely believe in the Lord’s presence but it’s just hard to wrap my head around this. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 737 | Abolish the Novus Ordo Missae and restore the Tridentine Mass as the only form of the Roman Rite | Return to Tradition |
| 738 | ALL OF THE ABOVE | Multiple Recommendations |
| 739 | Return to The Traditional Latin Mass is the solution. | Return to Tradition |
| 740 | Return to the Traditional Latin Mass. | Return to Tradition |
| 741 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 742 | All except the first one | Multiple Recommendations |
| 743 | Also the Pope and Bishops need to apologize to the failure during Covid as explained earlier. | Leadership Reforms |
| 744 | Dress and behavior must be addressed for any other recommendation to take root. Of our Lord in the Eucharist is treated as He should be, all the other things will follow. | Reverence |
| 745 | All of the above will happen with dropping the failed Novus Ordo and a return to the ‘43 Missal TLM, and virtue training | Multiple Recommendations |
| 746 | awesome chant or choral music of deep quiet reverence and #1 on tongue and kneeling and only priest !! | Return to Tradition |
| 747 | Stress to the faithful that they are consuming the Living Flesh of the same God; that they will stand before, to give an account of how they lived the life that He purposefully gave them. | Catechesis |
| 748 | Don't just encourage Eucharist to be taken on the tongue while kneeling, MANDATE IT. | Return to Tradition |
| 749 | Teach in homilies. | Catechesis |
| 750 | Prove you'd be willing to die for Jesus. Live it! | Personal Witness |
| 751 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 752 | Return to professing, teaching, and using the Catholic (pre-Vatican II) teachings and rites. | Return to Tradition |
| 753 | Train all priests to offer the Traditional Latin Mass and make it available at all parishes | Return to Tradition |
| 754 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 755 | taking the Eucharist to others has been my salvation to share with others | Other |
| 756 | Answers 2-4 | Multiple Recommendations |
| 757 | The Traditional Latin Mass culture covers all of the above. Increase, permit, encourage the TLM | Multiple Recommendations |
| 758 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 759 | Return to the Traditional Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 760 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 761 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 762 | I think it will take a combination of the things you have listed. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 763 | ALL of the above are crucial! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 764 | All of these externals work together to increase faith amongst the faithful. One can't just change one thing and expect a different outcome. The priests must be Well-formed, Holy and reverent and living Saintly lives. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 765 | Bring back Latin Mass. Use FSSP Priests to fulfill all Catholic issues, i.e. Mass, Confession, Communion, etc. | Return to Tradition |
| 766 | Receive Holy Communion on tongue, elderly cannot kneel | Return to Tradition |
| 767 | Keep evangelizing from pulpit | Catechesis |
| 768 | Make the TLM beloved and regularly available including for Holy Days of Obligation in the new and 1962 calendars | Return to Tradition |
| 769 | Emphasize going to confession to worthily receive the Eucharist | Confession |
| 770 | Explain why cannibalism endears me to God? | Other |
| 771 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 772 | Find a way to address the cognitive dissonance that the church is asking people to accept. | Leadership Reforms |
| 773 | Way too hard must be ALL especially now | Multiple Recommendations |
| 774 | Bishops need to regain trustworthy credibility!! In all matters. | Leadership Reforms |
| 775 | So many of these are important but teaching the importance of what you are receiving and then teaching that receiving on the tongue and kneeling is the best way BECAUSE OF WHO you are receiving. It's hard to get that point across to people that IT IS JESUS but then tell them that it's okay to receive Him standing and in your hands. | Catechesis, Return to Tradition |
| 776 | #3, 4, 5 and good homilies addressing social issues of our time. Not condemning sharing how to let Jesus help people through with Gods Word as the way, truth and life. How to work through problems one day at a time. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 777 | More service projects for the poor, staying out of politics | Other |
| 778 | ALL OF THE ABOVE are equally important. Reverence in the Eucharist requires all of these exercises for the soul. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 779 | Act like Jesus and not rely on these external excuses to judge people’s holiness! | Other |
| 780 | Help the laity grow in virtue and leave judgment up to God. | Other |
| 781 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 782 | Only God can call us to his son …read the scriptures! | Other |
| 783 | Equal tie between w/h from public officials and encourage greater reverence for the Eucharist | Canon 915, Reverence |
| 784 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 785 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 786 | All suggestions | Multiple Recommendations |
| 787 | Veils, decent clothing | Return to Tradition |
| 788 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 789 | Allow the Latin mass! | Return to Tradition |
| 790 | All of the above! Let’s go big for Jesus!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 791 | Latin Mass available | Return to Tradition |
| 792 | Encourage and provide opportunity to go to the Latin Mass. | Return to Tradition |
| 793 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 794 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 795 | All of above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 796 | All the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 797 | Recreate Catholic education and everyone at least use Holy before the word MASS. The word mass is usually a mess | Catechesis |
| 798 | Actually all of the above would be considered #1. You can't separate any of them. Everyone of the above items are extremely important to implement. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 799 | I can't choose; why cant we do all of the above? | Multiple Recommendations |
| 800 | On the tongue. Kneeling would be ideal but many can not kneel because of physical restraints. | Return to Tradition |
| 801 | Example what you desire in your flock. A Saint will have a holy flock; a holy priest will have a good flock; a good priest will have a Luke warm flock; and a Luke warm priest will have a bad flock. Priest, know your dignity before God and men. | Personal Witness |
| 802 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 803 | ALL of the Above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 804 | One hour of Eucharist Adoration every day. | Adoration |
| 805 | Since depravity of the clergy is the principal cause, clean it up! | Leadership Reforms |
| 806 | Receive kneeling and on the tongue only from a priest or deacon, and if there must be music during the Eucharist, limit it to time-honored sacred music or chant, ditch all music from the St. Louis Jesuits. | Return to Tradition |
| 807 | They all are of utmost importance to show Our Lord is REALLY with us in our churches~ | Multiple Recommendations |
| 808 | All of the above. Not one thing alone can fix this major problem. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 809 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 810 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 811 | It’s not possible for some people to knee due to health issues | Other |
| 812 | Encourage reverence | Reverence |
| 813 | Act like the Blessed Lord is truly present in the Blessed Sacrament. All of the above options would in my estimation help the faithful immensely, in addition to saying the Mass ad orientem as the normative form of the Mass as Vatican II and the Missal intends. This is far more important than merely life or death and I don’t get the feeling that people are shown they ought to treat it as such. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 814 | Consider Latin Mass and that rite in language | Return to Tradition |
| 815 | Completely eliminate extraordinary ministers, women at the altar and Holy Communion should ONLY be received in the tongue while kneeling | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 816 | Help them experience the love and mercy of God | Other |
| 817 | By example holding Mass with reverence, respect for the Eucharist, Church. Hold those who make a mockery of the Eucharist accountable | Personal Witness, Reverence |
| 818 | All of the above, and more. We need Jesus desperately | Multiple Recommendations |
| 819 | Make a Latin Mass available near center of every diocese | Return to Tradition |
| 820 | Tongue/communion rails, no extraordinary ministers, no girl altar servers, and encourage veils | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 821 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 822 | Only have Priest give communion on the tongue when kneeling | Return to Tradition |
| 823 | Stop all the singing at communion time… can’t concentrate on prayers | Return to Tradition |
| 824 | educate priests better so that their actions will leave no doubt in anyone's mind that Jesus is truly present. | Personal Witness |
| 825 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 826 | All of the above, with heavy emphasis on education and increased reverence. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 827 | All of the above are needed | Multiple Recommendations |
| 828 | All of the above but primarily bring back the Tom | Multiple Recommendations |
| 829 | We need to focus on the Catechism of the children. We need to have educated staff doing this training, not parents and others that just volunteer. | Catechesis |
| 830 | All of the above. It's the combination that has eroded the faith. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 831 | All of the above must be done | Multiple Recommendations |
| 832 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 833 | More attention in Mass Homilies on Communion. | Catechesis |
| 834 | Coming from someone who grew up with social media. I think having a shared social media account to get to as many young adults. Answering the question most asked about Catholicism. Helping young people to believe will greatly enhance the reverence of Mass I think the reestablishment of the priest doing Mass facing the tabernacle and communion rails | Return to Tradition, Reverence |
| 835 | Promote the traditional Latin Mass. | Return to Tradition |
| 836 | #1, #6,#4,#2, #3,#5 | Multiple Recommendations |
| 837 | Bring back the TLM exclusively. the illusion of a reverent NO is just an illusion that doesn’t inspire much devotion to the Eucharist. | Return to Tradition |
| 838 | Ad orientem | Return to Tradition |
| 839 | Get the pope, bishops, and priests who engage in or cover up abuse to be excommunicated | Leadership Reforms |
| 840 | Wearing "Sunday best" for Church | Reverence |
| 841 | Asking people to dress respectfully when coming to mass | Reverence |
| 842 | Lobby for the authoritative return if Summorum Pontificum and pray for a good pope. | Leadership Reforms |
| 843 | All the above in vital. They cannot be separated. The priests must be united working together in every parish. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 844 | Get rid of this pope. | Leadership Reforms |
| 845 | all of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 846 | All of the above. They are all connected and needed for the Catholic Church. Please list all the recommendations. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 847 | educating the laity on all of the above - parish by parish; Latin Mass | Multiple Recommendations |
| 848 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 849 | Cannot receive the Eucharist in the state of mortal sin ever | Confession |
| 850 | Catechize catechize catechize by Baltimore Catechism | Catechesis |
| 851 | Return to classical education, eliminate all abuses from the Novus Ordo, and Celebrate an absolutely beautiful Novus Ordo with beautiful Sacred music , great homilies, and unmistakable reverence | Return to Tradition |
| 852 | Let us see that the church has cleaned up it's chaos. don't worry about how reverent we are as we approach receiving the host. There is no need to expect genuflection, kneeling or any other SHOW. How individuals receive is in TYHEIR heart. Stop priests from trying to make us look like a cult. | Leadership Reforms |
| 853 | Be Shepherds. Go into your parishes. Get to know your flock. If each of you became the leader and the servant he was called to be, you wouldn’t need a survey. | Leadership Reforms |
| 854 | Promote monthly confession and increase teaching on necessity of worthy Eucharistic reception in order to GO TO HEAVEN---- Jesus words" Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, you have NO life within you". | Confession, Catechesis |
| 855 | Laicize clergy who teach and emphasize the above 6 statements. | Other |
| 856 | Stop banning TLM | Return to Tradition |
| 857 | Only a priest or deacon should distribute our Lord to the congregation | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 858 | Our African priests are much more reverent and conservative. The African priests have higher expectations of the congregation. It makes a difference. Unfortunately, I cannot understand the accent. Also, the congregation needs to be taught what to do in the presence of God. And withhold communion from public officials who do not follow the Catechism. | Leadership Reforms, Canon 915, Personal Witness |
| 859 | More discussion during mass. Incorporate into homilies more regularly | Catechesis |
| 860 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 861 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 862 | Get rid of Novus Ordo and TLM bring back totally! Problems solved for priest and laity and world | Return to Tradition |
| 863 | Catechize regarding why the Eucharist is so important not just that it is. Show the Biblical old testament prefigurements, Church history, Jewish roots and how it is the foundation of our Faith. And why God designed it this way. | Catechesis |
| 864 | What Jesus said …go and make disciples of all nations …and make/encourage life-long learning of the faith | Other |
| 865 | Teach about how to grow in our relationship with Christ in addition to who and how the Holy Spirit works in us. The Holy Spirit is Christ. | Catechesis |
| 866 | We need to be better witnesses and practice our faith. Clergy and lay people alike. | Personal Witness |
| 867 | Eliminate communion on the hand | Return to Tradition |
| 868 | Reinforce the concept of real presence. Teach people Christ is in the Church. Crack down on talking and dress codes. More quiet time in church. | Catechesis |
| 869 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 870 | If you are part of the filth resign | Leadership Reforms |
| 871 | Eliminate the EMHCs, better catechesis, encouraging receiving the Eucharist on the tongue in the Latin Rite, and get rid of women "serving" in the Mass, and re-implementing Ad Orientem, and more priests should deny people Communion for those whom have committed scandal without repenting. | Catechesis, Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 872 | Divine Office | Prayer |
| 873 | Help people to learn Eucharistic prayers in preparation for mass and after communion...also to offer their communion for special intentions | Prayer |
| 874 | Ad orientem and altar rails | Return to Tradition |
| 875 | Clean up the altar during mass. We need bells, train altar, boys, and patterns. No more extra ordinary ministers. | Return to Tradition |
| 876 | All of the above and we don’t have confession enough times in our parish I work a lot and adoration more often I work the one day a week we have it | Multiple Recommendations |
| 877 | Have TLM with kneelers. | Return to Tradition |
| 878 | All of the above!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 879 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 880 | I think all of these are of almost equal importance so I cannot decide on just one. If I could be allowed to say at least two, it would be: Catechize the faithful, and Encourage greater reverence. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 881 | Return to Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 882 | ALL OF THE ABOVE are intertwined to helping to improve belief in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament | Multiple Recommendations |
| 883 | Ad orientem | Return to Tradition |
| 884 | Ditch the NABRE and bring back book burning. Frankly, burn the NABREs before we even consider burning Protestant bibles. | Catechesis, Other |
| 885 | Eliminate the Latin mass | Other |
| 886 | Give challenging sermons. Don’t be afraid to upset people. | Leadership Reforms, Catechesis, Personal Witness |
| 887 | It all starts with getting people back in the pews and that can only happen if the Church REALLY apologize for and clean up the pedophilia mess. CLR has to include the people and the Cardinals, Archbishops, and, Bishops need to squash nuns and priest celebrating Pride and come down off their thrones to be among the people. | Leadership Reforms |
| 888 | Be consistent-leadership is needed from the top | Leadership Reforms |
| 889 | Be more tolerant of others. Really practice soci just in word and deed. | Other |
| 890 | Take communion kneeled and in the mouth. | Return to Tradition |
| 891 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 892 | I feel numbers one through five would cause an amazing reverence. And Deacons and Devoted parishioners, distributing the most holy Eucharist in reverent attire would increase holiness and reverence and true belief in the real presence. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 893 | One must bathe in the 6th chapter of John's gospel. | Other |
| 894 | Bishops and priests must start believing in the REAL Presence to the point of risking their life for IT. | Personal Witness |
| 895 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 896 | Ban the Novus Ordo | Return to Tradition |
| 897 | Actually, only one "choice" is not enough. All of the above would be a good start. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 898 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 899 | restore Latin Mass/use chant | Return to Tradition |
| 900 | All most all of the above. No reverence or respect. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 901 | Start Latin Mass in every Catholic Church. | Return to Tradition |
| 902 | Return to the Traditional Mass and faith exclusively | Return to Tradition |
| 903 | The leaders of the church do not seem to believe in the catholic church. I have more respect and trust for archbishop Vigano. | Leadership Reforms, Personal Witness |
| 904 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 905 | Return to the traditional Latin Mass *and* sacraments (which includes all of the above), as God had guided the Church was for centuries. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 906 | Traditional faith prior to Vatican II | Return to Tradition |
| 907 | That the clergy boldly state their Kerygma and act as Christ’s representative of and in the Kingdom. | Personal Witness |
| 908 | All of the above. Primarily (in my opinion) receiving Our Lord, kneeling, on the tongue, at the Communion rail would go a long way. However, reinstating the entire 1962 Missal (or earlier) would have the maximum impact. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 909 | All of the above, really | Multiple Recommendations |
| 910 | Make the process more grand and engaging to laymen and also explaining the symbolism behind it to eliminate the question of science and the like | Catechesis |
| 911 | Not only encourage, but require the reception of the Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling. A mere suggestion does not take the Eucharist seriously enough. | Return to Tradition |
| 912 | All of the Above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 913 | Openly state that priests are no higher in any hierarchy than other believers | Catechesis |
| 914 | Return Ad Orientem to regular use | Return to Tradition |
| 915 | Please encourage our spiritual shepherds (priests) to lead us in showing reverence for the Holy Eucharist and Mass— I attend Mass at different parishes and noticed the boys and men seem bored or indifferent when the music sounds like a cocktail lounge. Just an observation. When I attend a Mass when reverent sacred music (using organ) is played, the men are more attentive. My sons (and daughter) prefer a more reverent liturgy where the altar boys are actively worshiping during the Mass. | Personal Witness, Reverence |
| 916 | Eliminate EMHCs except where there is grave need | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 917 | All of the above, and to remove their political agenda. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 918 | I could check all of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 919 | TRUTH | Catechesis |
| 920 | End Communion in the hand (and the use of Extraordinary Minister who also touch HIM without due necessity) | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 921 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 922 | Receive the Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling and ONLY from a priest! | Return to Tradition |
| 923 | Be themselves authentically Catholic-which would include all of the above. and fearless | Multiple Recommendations |
| 924 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 925 | Its not a matter of 1 solution its all of the above ...or return to tradition | Multiple Recommendations |
| 926 | All of the above are necessary, vital. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 927 | Speaking TRUTH | Catechesis |
| 928 | All of the options should be checked. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 929 | It must be a combination: eliminate EMHCs, install altar rails, only administer on the tongue and while kneeling if physically able, TEACH the people about receiving in a state of grace vs mortal sin, and then actually ACT like it is Our Lord with reverence, devotion, adoration, procession, protection, etc. | Multiple Recommendations, Catechesis, Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 930 | All of the above, unprofanize the liturgy | Multiple Recommendations |
| 931 | Increasing Eucharistic events is my answer, but genuflecting/kneeling for the Eucharist can be very difficult for those with knee/hip/back problems- especially in the elderly which if required to receive could cause people to be excluded - I love the reverence, but many elderly could fall or not be able to get up. | Adoration |
| 932 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 933 | Catechize the laity on the real presence and eliminate Extraordinary Ministers. | Catechesis, Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 934 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 935 | Catechizing is foremost but I don’t think this alone is enough. We need to also encourage reverence with how we receive Jesus, our attire, humility in front of Jesus such as kneeling, bowing, genuflecting. Our outward body language must match our love for God. We also do need to withhold the Eucharist from those public officials who reject Catholic teachings and are not repentant. Not only is the sinner responsible for his actions but the priest or person giving the most Holy Body and Blood of Christ to an unrepentant person is so sad. It gives permission to others to act against the Church and Holy Eucharist. | Catechesis, Reverence |
| 936 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 937 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 938 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 939 | All masses worldwide traditional Latin mass the same everywhere | Return to Tradition |
| 940 | Use exclusively “Save us Savior of the world for by Thy Cross and Resurrection You have set us free” | Other |
| 941 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 942 | You can do all of the above not just one of them. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 943 | All of these issues are already addressed at the Traditional Latin Mass. | Return to Tradition |
| 944 | The entire Church, starting with the Pope, must live by the beliefs of the Church. Without clarity in leadership, there is no credibility in the messages. | Personal Witness |
| 945 | ALL of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 946 | Teach teach teach especially the teachers! | Catechesis |
| 947 | all of the above without exception | Multiple Recommendations |
| 948 | All of the above. Plus, saying it out loud at every Mass. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 949 | Stop Novus Ordo -- Celebrate TLM exclusively | Return to Tradition |
| 950 | All of the above must happen. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 951 | Bring back the Latin Mass or at least the common prayers the Creed, the Gloria, the Our Father… and bring back SACRED MUSIC such as Gregorian Chant !! | Return to Tradition |
| 952 | Stop communion in the hand, as it is a liturgical abuse. | Return to Tradition |
| 953 | Share personal stories about the Eucharist in our lives. TALK ABOUT IT. Second choice would be above, number 2. Catechize and share love of Jesus in the Eucharist | Catechesis |
| 954 | +Teach priests how to explain the faith and not waste every homily doing middle school theme identification for the readings : ) | Catechesis |
| 955 | All of these choices are high priority!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 956 | Two things of equal importance: adoration needs to be readily available for people working and with young children. If you have adoration at 2 pm on Thursday, don’t be shocked when only the retirees show up. Some of us may never be able to retire. Consider perpetual adoration chapels with security measures for registered parishioners. Second - lift the restrictions on the Latin mass and put the back the rails for kneeling in all churches. Thanks! | Adoration, Return to Tradition |
| 957 | Be true Princes of the Church and do all of these things. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 958 | Stop acting as if you're above everyone, you are not God | Leadership Reforms |
| 959 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 960 | I believe only priests should give communion, people should receive kneeling and in the tongue and all parishes should promote Eucharistic Adoration as well as the Sacrament of Reconciliation. | Confession, Adoration, Return to Tradition |
| 961 | Act like human beings and teach people how the Eucharist can transform them simply because they are receiving it. When you present the results of this survey, please indicate that you are a conservative right wing lobbies group. This is a fraction of what Catholics find important. Definitely not the majority. Who cares how or who receives Jesus. Isn’t our role as evangelists to make sure as many people as possible receive him? | Catechesis |
| 962 | Boldly proclaim the Eucharistic Miracles and scientific facts then use all of the above tools to help people realize the truth and Who the Eucharist is. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 963 | All. Of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 964 | All of the above!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 965 | Stop using the church as an all purpose room for socializing | Reverence |
| 966 | Widely promote the Traditional Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 967 | Pray for softening of hearts as our church needs unity more than disunity and division, also pray for respect for the chair of Peter. | Prayer |
| 968 | All masses being offered ad Orientem | Return to Tradition |
| 969 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 970 | Eliminate all non-clergy from touching the Eucharist with their hands. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 971 | Require the custom of receiving the Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling. | Return to Tradition |
| 972 | The only way the percent measured by the Pew study could possibly improve very much is if we re-evangelized many fallen away Catholics. That said, our young who do attend Mass regularly are more likely to doubt the real presence so giving talks to them would help somewhat. | Catechesis |
| 973 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 974 | Teach the truth in all matters of faith at mass. | Catechesis |
| 975 | Catechize the priests | Catechesis |
| 976 | Reinstate Archbishop Vigano | Leadership Reforms |
| 977 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 978 | Bring back TLM in all Parishes | Return to Tradition |
| 979 | Teach against Relativism by teaching the Truth, and that the Catholic Church is the fullness of Truth. Essentially this is Catechesis, but focused on combating Relativism not just teaching the basics of our faith. | Catechesis |
| 980 | All of the above plus ad orientem follow GIRM on music, i.e. Gregorian chant | Multiple Recommendations |
| 981 | Priests need help. I hesitate to object to lay ministers. But the awe and reverence that I remember from childhood has vanished. | Reverence |
| 982 | Go back to the Latin Mass, Gregorian chant and male acolytes | Return to Tradition |
| 983 | Witness of a Eucharistic life | Personal Witness |
| 984 | Be virtuous | Personal Witness |
| 985 | STOP APPROVING OF HOMOSEXUALITY | Leadership Reforms |
| 986 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 987 | Practice our Roman Catholic Faith. Not what has happened since Vatican II. | Return to Tradition |
| 988 | Put back alter rails, and use them | Return to Tradition |
| 989 | school! Education | Catechesis |
| 990 | I don't believe Vatican II sect to be legitimate. How can I reconcile this ? I need to worship as our Church Fathers have done so for centuries and I am denied this rite because of Novus Ordo. | Return to Tradition |
| 991 | Teach us in words(homily) and action(reverence; actions (central location of tabernacle, altar rail | Catechesis |
| 992 | Teach the MIRACLES that prove Jesus cardiac tissue and AB blood!!! | Catechesis |
| 993 | Eliminate EEM while reintroducing Communion rail or any other way to reverently receive Jesus from the ordained minister. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 994 | Total restoration of the TLM. | Return to Tradition |
| 995 | Reinstruct priests to have more reverence for the tabernacle and the sanctuary! Instruct them to genuflect in front of the Tabernacle, every time they pass it. If an If a Christian sees a priest to it, Christian Catholic, Also to teach Priest how to place the Holy Eucharist on someone’s tongue without touching their tongue. | Personal Witness, Reverence |
| 996 | More small faith group opportunities and retreat opportunities and more emphasis on the mystical nature of our faith including all of the many Eucharistic miracles in the world | Catechesis |
| 997 | We are not catechized | Catechesis |
| 998 | Make the Mass about God and emphasizing God's rights | Other |
| 999 | Encourage Eucharistic reverence and catechize the faithful as to why the Holy Eucharist is revered and the source and summit of our faith. | Reverence |
| 1000 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1001 | All of the above, but especially receiving the Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1002 | Lift up the lay people and actually listen to them, respect the Holy Spirit's guidance within them, allow them to fully enter into their own ministry and apostolate and the priesthood of all believers and stop treating the Eucharist like something that the clergy can use as a weapon or control tactic to force people into dependency on the hierarchy. | Other |
| 1003 | Eliminate extraordinarily ministers and receive communion on the tongue kneeling. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1004 | Stop the ambiguous and confusing half-truths that many times our Pope and Bishops communicate in the media and in their documents. Our children need to be taught the authentic teachings and the real presence of the Eucharist of Christ in a clear and succinct manner, so that they are prepared to face a secular world that is openly hostile and opposed to many fundamentals of our faith. As a Catholic Mom, one of the hardest things is when I have to finish the “rest of Christ’s teachings” that the Pope and our Bishops leave out (such as in Fiducia Supplicans, which was broadcast at my children’s college as a new teaching of the Catholic Church of now approving of same sex couples.) | Leadership Reforms |
| 1005 | ALL | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1006 | Communion Rail | Return to Tradition |
| 1007 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1008 | All of the above while the priest gives a homily every Sunday explaining more and more about the Eucharist | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1009 | Please do all the above mentioned | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1010 | Make the Latin mass accessible in every church at least once a week. Preach on the true presence. Defend and protect the Eucharist from Fiducia Suplicans and public figures that support the culture of death. Bishops must be courageously defend and protect the Eucharist; teach by example. | Return to Tradition |
| 1011 | I think eliminating extraordinary, Eucharist ministers and receiving on the tongue, kneeling Are both equal to me of importance | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1012 | all the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1013 | Withhold from people who reject catholic views publically also offer programs to invite non Catholics to learn the reasons we are not open to sharing communion to people who's views don't coincide with our beliefs. Not an angry view but rather the real reason of lack of reverence can't be equal because respect comes only with proper knowledge. We are not equal. If Jesus is with us at Mass then it is not the same as having a ceremony to remember his former presence. He is simply not present for them and their respect of bread and wine shows that. o | Canon 915, Catechesis |
| 1014 | Lead by example, encourage holiness rather than penalizing faithful priests | Personal Witness |
| 1015 | Although I am tempted to say receiving on the tongue while kneeling, I have to say I think it is letting the Mass of the ages flourish. Nearly every problem we now have is fixed by going back to our roots. | Return to Tradition |
| 1016 | Emphasize that the Eucharist is not a prize for the perfect but nourishment to aid us in living the Christian life | Catechesis |
| 1017 | Eliminate not only extraordinary ministers of holy communion, also eliminate deacons. Their hands are not consecrated!! At many masses, I attend deacons are doing more than the actual priest. It is ridiculous. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 1018 | Vetus Ordo - The Traditional Latin Mass of the Ages codified by Pope Pius V | Return to Tradition |
| 1019 | Priest and kneeler at center, ministers to the sides | Return to Tradition |
| 1020 | ALL OF THE ABOVE | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1021 | ALL OF THE ABOVE AND THE RETURN TO THE EXTRAORDINARY FORM | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1022 | All have the same value. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1023 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1024 | Endlessly harp on worthy reception! Which means Increase confession times | Confession |
| 1025 | Evangelization; personal saving faith in Jesus. | Other |
| 1026 | Every one of the above points would do a lot of good for belief according to Church teaching. | Multiple Recommendations, Catechesis |
| 1027 | Stay out of politics | Other |
| 1028 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1029 | Eliminate Extraordinary minsters, increase Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Public Processions, Benediction, encourage reception of Holy Communion on the tongue, kneeling and inform the faithful to offer Thanksgiving after reception. Also, withhold Communion from public officials who blatantly live contrary and encourage others to live outside of the Teachings of the Holy Gospel (Canon 915). Shepherd us, lest we all fall into the fiery pit, where there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. | Canon 915, Adoration, Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1030 | Follow the word - always, not the Vatican. | Other |
| 1031 | Imbue every action of the Mass with due reverence by making every action point to right relationship with God on His terms. | Reverence |
| 1032 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1033 | Proper Catechesis re Eucharist,, greater reverence, encourage receiving Jesus on the tongue kneeling, eliminate LEM, and have Eucharistic events. First three are easy to implement together. I teach 2nd grade religious ed and sacramental prep. The parents are in the room with us next to their child in sacramental prep. We are able to catechize both simultaneously. It works! Parents have thanked me many times because they learned something. One recently actually thanked me for my enthusiasm about receiving our Lord. Not tooting my horn. Just having parents present in classes makes a difference for whole parish because you are doing double instruction without more time commitment. Homilies about the Eucharist, miracles, transubstantiation, reverence, all of the ideas you presented. Many years ago we had a visiting priest give a retreat in the main church. Afterwards people began to mill around and talk sone rather loudly with laughter. The priest walked back in after changing and basically shouted (to be heard above the noise), “People! Jesus is right here in the tabernacle and you act as if He doesn’t exist. This is a place of worship, not a social hall! Want to visit? Get out!” Instant silence and people left. Those of us praying were grateful. Point is, he made a strong impression on the parish. I could go on and on but I will end this. Thank you for this survey. | Catechesis, Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Reverence |
| 1034 | Reassess which traditions the church is committed to preserving. There is a beauty to doing the same rituals that people have been doing for thousands of years, but culture evolves and we cannot pretend like religion doesn’t evolve with it. Non-men should be able to enter the priesthood and other positions within the hierarchy of the church. | Other |
| 1035 | I wish I could select all these! But we should start with the need to be in a state of grace, through Confession | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1036 | Put the communion rails back in the church and the tabernacle on the altar, and teach people why mass is celebrated ad orientem. | Return to Tradition |
| 1037 | Allow the Traditional Latin Mass freely with no restrictions | Return to Tradition |
| 1038 | Catechize, but stop pushing women/youth away from altar | Catechesis |
| 1039 | One?! I have a few: kneel and receive on the tongue, DRESS APPROPRIATELY (and give the laity specific examples!), women wear a veil, ONLY reverent music (NO bands and secular/Protestant songs), MORE Eucharistic adoration times (24/7 would be preferable), NO girl altar servers, NO Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion. I am the wife of a deacon. I try my best to model what SHOULD be done in our parish, but I am a sinner and continually strive to improve. | Multiple Recommendations, Adoration, Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 1040 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1041 | can't choose a #1. There are multiple steps to take I feel | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1042 | Only consecrated hands offer the Eucharist to people who are not in public sin, and only while kneeling, and only on the tongue | Return to Tradition |
| 1043 | Put aside your social media and all your bodyguards and bureaucrats and live a holy life and let the people see it. | Personal Witness |
| 1044 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1045 | Everything else stated; EDUCATION | Catechesis |
| 1046 | There is no silver bullet. There are a lot of moving parts and the bishops must work on them all — but I doubt that they will. They have neither the courage nor the imagination. They do the same things that don't work over and over again. I pray that future generations of priests and bishops will be different. This generation is toast. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1047 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1048 | Welcome change and openness | Other |
| 1049 | Solve the abuse scandals- I have many friends who have left the faith because of it | Leadership Reforms |
| 1050 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1051 | ad orientem posture | Return to Tradition |
| 1052 | Make a greater effort to bring Jesus in the Holy Eucharist to the homebound. | Other |
| 1053 | I believe the great problem lies in both a lack of education and reverence, one must believe intellectually and emotionally in the real presence, as such, catechesis will help the intellect, and reverence will help the emotional, thus catechesis and reverence are both needed to solve this issue | Catechesis, Reverence |
| 1054 | Bishops and priests need to be able to identify with their congregatios. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1055 | Of course Christ is there, but wafers don’t turn into flesh, and wine & water is not blood. It’s a false teaching. | Other |
| 1056 | Increase the TLM | Return to Tradition |
| 1057 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1058 | My #1 recommendation is, Catechize the faithful (e.g., transubstantiation, worthy reception, etc.), Extremely/Greatly Encourage greater reverence for the Eucharist (e.g., genuflecting, kneeling, prayer of thanksgiving after Mass, etc.), and Increase Eucharistic events (e.g., Adoration, Processions, Benedictions, etc.) | Catechesis, Adoration, Return to Tradition |
| 1059 | Eliminate receiving in the hand | Return to Tradition |
| 1060 | Hold meaningful and powerful retreats. | Catechesis |
| 1061 | Don’t try to do this with Band-Aids. Learn how to say the traditional Latin mass; ignore the abuse of authority that says that you may not say it or that your priests may not say it. Again, this is a clear-cut abusive authority and may be safely disregarded. Canonist and the Saints will tell you the same thing and I am nobody. | Return to Tradition |
| 1062 | All dioceses offer the Blood of Christ in the Chalice, and have a kneeler by the priest so Catholics can kneel if they prefer. Bad knees for some require a kneeler. | Return to Tradition |
| 1063 | Return to Ad Orientem and make the mass about offering worship to God, not going to get something out of it. | Return to Tradition |
| 1064 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1065 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1066 | Instill love - for many Catholics they know or may think they believe Jesus is present in the Eucharist, but they lack love of Him, or have become apathetic. This is Jesus!! The Jesus Who walked on water - rose from the dead - the Author of Life!!! We need energy, and passion! And increased devotion to the Blessed Mother, talk about her at Mass, say more Hail Mary’s - Her Hand and Her Intercession is critical. No one loves the Eucharist more than Her!! | Other |
| 1067 | Respect personal truth and embrace diversity. | Other |
| 1068 | All | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1069 | I believe all of the above need to be done and then some. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1070 | Expand use of the Traditional Mass of the Ages | Return to Tradition |
| 1071 | Aren’t we all God’s children. No one can judge, but God the Father | Other |
| 1072 | Warn people that unworthy reception of the Sacrament will send them to hell | Confession |
| 1073 | Offer more Traditional Latin Masses in Parishes | Return to Tradition |
| 1074 | Force our pope to resign and install a new leader. He is driving people away from our beloved Church! | Leadership Reforms |
| 1075 | All of the above apply, but the top 2 are requiring reception of Holy Communion on the tongue while kneeling and eliminating lay Eucharistic ministers. I do not mind waiting a few extra minutes to receive The Eucharist from the priest who has consecrated hands to touch to Body of Christ. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1076 | Open more Catholic schools. | Catechesis |
| 1077 | Longer silent prayer after receiving | Prayer |
| 1078 | Tabernacle front and center, holy communion kneeling down, receive on the tongue. Every church needs to follow the same rules. No options for priests, no options for laity. | Tabernacle Location, Return to Tradition |
| 1079 | All of the above. Education is important, but what we do every Mass in terms of respect is also very important | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1080 | Eliminate communion in the hand. | Return to Tradition |
| 1081 | Ad Orientem and receiving on the tongue kneeling | Return to Tradition |
| 1082 | Both catechize the faithful and withhold communion according to canon 915 | Canon 915, Catechesis |
| 1083 | All the above! one failure feeds the others | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1084 | All thee above to start to be honest. Catholic boot camp is in order I believe so ALL THE ABOVE RECOMMENDATIONS TO START ESPECIALLY ALL MEN | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1085 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1086 | Purge the church of scandalous entertaining clergy | Leadership Reforms |
| 1087 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1088 | Communion from the consecrated hands of a priest or deacon while kneeling at a communion rail, on the tongue. | Return to Tradition |
| 1089 | ALL OF THE ABOVE! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1090 | Allow and encourage the TLM! This accomplishes many of the points listed. | Return to Tradition |
| 1091 | Follow Canon 915. Eliminate Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 1092 | all of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1093 | Restore the use of the Traditional Liturgy | Return to Tradition |
| 1094 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1095 | Intinction the very best way to receive our Lord http://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/motu_proprio/documents/hf_ben-xvi_motu-proprio_20121110_latina-lingua.html http://www.catholictradition.org/Eucharist/memoriale.htm | Return to Tradition |
| 1096 | Teaching in the catholic schools and catechism the real presence | Catechesis |
| 1097 | Sorry, but I believe they are ALL Equally important. I also wish I had TLM available in my community. | Multiple Recommendations, Return to Tradition |
| 1098 | All above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1099 | All of the above. Treat/teach us the faith as adults. Bring back the Dhouy . | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1100 | Education, Priest, Deacon giving communion, kneeling , receive on tongue, I knew in my heart by this it is the Lord. | Return to Tradition |
| 1101 | RESTORE THE TLM!! ABOLISH THE NOVUS ORDO!! That would take care of all of the above and more! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1102 | Sop assaulting us with toxic incense | Other |
| 1103 | All of the above are good ideas, but silence in the Nave of the church might be more effective. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1104 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1105 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1106 | People have no faith in priest right now. Correct that first. Their sins are worse than what I commit. Nothing is done to them | Leadership Reforms |
| 1107 | Pray more, pray publicly, teach people how to pray, teach them how to be silent | Prayer |
| 1108 | Live the life of a true Catholic | Personal Witness |
| 1109 | Eliminate extraordinary ministers AND require communion on the tongue. These things cannot be separated, as they are the same issue—in consecrated hands touching the consecrated host and potentially losing particles of Our Lord. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1110 | Begin making reparation and fasting, intensely, for your people. Then do all of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1111 | Remind Catholics that you must be in a state of Grace to receive communion | Confession |
| 1112 | Confession lines are scanty, Communion lines are full, confession should be emphasized | Confession |
| 1113 | Promote the Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 1114 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1115 | All of those | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1116 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1117 | All these!!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1118 | Eliminate EMoHolyCommunion AND receive on tongue while kneeling and catechizing more... All three | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1119 | All of the above mentioned items. It is not just one. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1120 | It should not be the lay faithful's job to tell the bishops to deny communion to someone; they should already know and do it. yes bring back communion rails and eliminate lay ministers of the Eucharist now | Canon 915, Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1121 | Ad Orientem (with Catechesis on reason for changing to this orientation.) | Catechesis, Return to Tradition |
| 1122 | Set the example, including all of the other recommendations. Let people see YOU ALWAYS treating the host the host as it IS: TRULY BODY & BLOOD. SOUL AND DIVINITY of OUR LORD!! ???????? | Personal Witness |
| 1123 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1124 | All of above. Simply one item will not solve this problem | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1125 | Actually all of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1126 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1127 | Eliminate EM's AND bring back altar rails. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1128 | Receiving Holy Communion on the tongue and only from a priest or ordained Deacon. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1129 | All of the above. And get rid of these openly gay priests and priests that are 9 -4 paid professionals | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1130 | All of the above. Plus - Stop trying to change the True Faith! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1131 | I believe all of above need to be done. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1132 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1133 | #1 must be combined with #6. On the tongue while kneeling and no Extraordinary Ministers | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1134 | Encourage the practice of receiving keeling and on the tongue as well as eliminating extraordinary ministers of holy communion, needs to be both/and | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1135 | I would like to check All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1136 | All of the above, but definitely kneeling/ receipt on the tongue and denying Communion to the publicly defiant on Catholic teaching and morals. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1137 | Can’t reduce to just one reply. This need requires all of these recommendations to be enacted. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1138 | All of the above. There is no one simple solution. We let true belief slip away due to neglecting our teachings, and installing bad practices. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1139 | Bing back the TLM | Return to Tradition |
| 1140 | Better education of Eucharistic Miracles, seen is believing! The priests, and deacons need to lead by example. | Catechesis |
| 1141 | Restore Communion rails and Communion on the tongue and kneeling at those rails. | Return to Tradition |
| 1142 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1143 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1144 | All of the above, most certainly! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1145 | There are many people who to mass and do not receive because they are in irregular marriages or they are baptized but never made Holy Communion. Parish priests and those who work closely with him in ministry should be encouraged to offer guidance to these people to how they parish can assist them in receiving their sacraments. Many times, people are just not gently approached and they are already attending mass. People will not attend a Holy Hour or workshop on the Eucharist if they never have a personal encounter with Jesus and local parishes must be better equipped to accompany long term the people they have right in the pew so they in turn can give witness to the transformative power of Jesus in the Eucharist. | Other |
| 1146 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1147 | Model supernatural faith in the Eucharist and everything else Catholic | Personal Witness |
| 1148 | A combination of several of these choices. The only reason I don't go to TLM is it is not available nearby | Multiple Recommendations, Return to Tradition |
| 1149 | ALL OF THE ABOVE. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1150 | Explicitly and personally speak of the Eucharist as an encounter with Jesus Christ Himself | Catechesis |
| 1151 | Reinstate the rails | Return to Tradition |
| 1152 | Addressing abuse crisis and engaging with community | Leadership Reforms |
| 1153 | Love and appreciate Christ more and stop focusing on the speck in your brother’s eye | Other |
| 1154 | Stop hyper-fixating on all these external things and start listening to the people who have left the faith. Most are very willing to tell you why they left and it has nothing to do with any of this. As far as those who don't believe in the Real Presence, none of these things is going to truly help because these suggestions are not even remotely close to addressing why a person stops believing or doesn't believe. | Other |
| 1155 | Encourage a real prayer life among the faithful that will foster relationship with God through meditating on the Bible, personal prayer, and silence. | Prayer |
| 1156 | Read Pope Francis’s works, learn from him, follow the Holy Spirit, love those who are on the peripheries, stop blaming others | Other |
| 1157 | Lead by example showing charity and true humility, in obedience to the Pope | Personal Witness |
| 1158 | Actually address the ongoing sex abuse scandal in the church | Leadership Reforms |
| 1159 | Cultivate an understanding of Christ and a relationship with him that is deeply tied to liturgical and Eucharistic acts of charity | Catechesis |
| 1160 | Live a life that radiates the total self-giving love of Christ | Personal Witness |
| 1161 | Address the sexual abuse scandal head on, instead of making excuses like saying that abuse is a problem in other churches, or downplaying the impact. Include women in all areas of decision making in the church. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1162 | Address the abuse scandals in the church - deny Eucharist and defrock those accused. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1163 | Foster people from all walks of life in and out of the parish walls. Encourage serving the community without bounds | Other |
| 1164 | Teach the faithful to love as Christ loves - belief will follow love | Catechesis |
| 1165 | Stop sexually abusing children. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1166 | All of this | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1167 | Protect our children! | Leadership Reforms |
| 1168 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1169 | Make real and substantial changes to ensure the safety of children and the support of victims of clergy abuse. Stop focusing on these external things and start focusing on truly showing Christ's love. Stop supporting Trump. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1170 | Address the disgusting sexual abuse committed by the clergy. Address it, admonish it, HANDLE IT! NOW! | Leadership Reforms |
| 1171 | Both eliminate extraordinary ministers and only reception on the tongue kneeling | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1172 | Stop defending abusers. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1173 | Be welcoming to all people | Other |
| 1174 | Pray the Rosary daily, in Latin, learn Latin prayers, the litanies, the prayers of the mass. Do it in secret. What God sees in secret He will repay in secret. | Prayer |
| 1175 | Bring back AWE. (The first three above are all critical) | Reverence |
| 1176 | Some of these are symptoms, not the illness. You should create a new, unbiased survey if you want to get to the REAL source of this issue in the church. | Other |
| 1177 | The Latin Mass and receiving on the tongue don't guarantee anything. Please don't make people think they do. | Other |
| 1178 | Encourage people to use the gifts of the Holy Spirit | Catechesis |
| 1179 | Design the churches themselves to point towards the importance of the Eucharist and everything else will follow. | Return to Tradition |
| 1180 | There is no one answer all of the above are highly recommended except for the last recommendation. While I'm not an extraordinary minister, I see this as the one negative suggestion within the above list of fixes. I believe there should be a restriction but not an elimination. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1181 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1182 | Create an environment of holiness in church, and treat the Eucharist as God. Everything else will fall out naturally. | Reverence |
| 1183 | Be MORE VISIBLE & TRANSPARENT role models of possessing the JOY that only the Holy Trinity brings us: 1) Daily Eucharistic Adoration for at least one hour to RECEIVE God's love (His great charity, His great peace & His great joy. 2) Strive to be saints by focusing on growing in humility & meekness "starting with the man in the mirror", growing in passionate love, and growing in joyful obedience to promptings of the HS. 3) Make reparation for the past/present church scandals to regain & retain the trust of their past & current flock (and add new flock) through MORE VISIBLE demonstration of the Religious attending Confession and doing acts of Penance in pews for all (both lay & walk-away Catholics and the public). For example, I've seen local priests standing in Confession lines. And I've heard of priests sitting outside on a park bench offering to chat or to provide Confession. 🙂 | Confession, Adoration, Personal Witness |
| 1184 | Bring back the Traditional Latin Mass. Pray for the conversion of the Jews and the end of the NO mass | Return to Tradition |
| 1185 | Enforce canon915 vigorously | Canon 915 |
| 1186 | More Tridentine masses | Return to Tradition |
| 1187 | Open accountability & apologies | Leadership Reforms |
| 1188 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1189 | They are all so important, I can't choose. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1190 | Without becoming too much like Protestant denominations, we must evangelize like them. We must learn from our Protestant brothers and sisters and bring people to the point of making a decision. Catholicism too often dies from someone’s heart when they become confirmed, meanwhile Protestants often stay at that decision of whether Jesus saved them or not. Evangelizing is a necessity in the Catholic Church right now. | Other |
| 1191 | Get rid of the existing socialist Pope. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1192 | Catechize the faithful but it must be from the PULPIT... | Catechesis |
| 1193 | Restore the old Mass. The new one degrades faith. | Return to Tradition |
| 1194 | Build a sense of community in the parish and embrace the different cultural ways of celebrating the Eucharistic, in-order to teach the faith and appreciate the Real Presence - together. | Catechesis |
| 1195 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1196 | Spend time teaching people the love available to them by believing in the true presence and the grace available. Getting caught up in all the rules only alienates people and doesn’t make them want to seek Jesus. This survey is disturbing to me as it is so far off base as to shy people are leaving and why they aren’t engaging. If they aren’t in the pews and don’t fell Gods love in our community they will never take the time to learn. Yes, there are commandments and rules and we should all strive to become more like Jesus. | Catechesis |
| 1197 | Eliminate the Novus Ordo | Return to Tradition |
| 1198 | Convert all of your fellow Bishops to Catholicism. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1199 | Create a less judgmental and hateful space, fire pedophilic priests instead of relocating them, etc. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1200 | Encourage them to be loving. There's a saying that "There's no hate like Christian love." I've been subject to the hate while a part of the church and separated. My parents' priest told them not to go to my wedding since it was outside of the church, which has only caused further issues and separation. | Other |
| 1201 | Encourage receiving the Eucharist in the tongue while kneeling and greater reverence in towards the Eucharist in everyway as well as Catechizing better | Catechesis, Return to Tradition, Reverence |
| 1202 | I don’t think any of these are truly important | Other |
| 1203 | All above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1204 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1205 | Increasing Catholics' appreciation for sacred music and sacred art (an appreciation for the beautiful usually results in an appreciation, and belief in, the truth). | Return to Tradition |
| 1206 | All of the above questions, they are all need to be done and encouraged because they are all important and what’s going to improve the belief of our Lords presence in Eucharist. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1207 | Allow for the widespread celebration of the TLM. | Return to Tradition |
| 1208 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1209 | Restore the Latin Mass and suppress the boomer rite of Vatican Two. | Return to Tradition |
| 1210 | all of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1211 | Have the parents educate their children on this | Catechesis |
| 1212 | To believe in the true presence themselves. Pray the mass like it is your first mass and your only mass! Lead us the flock to heaven by example through prayer and love of God. | Personal Witness, Reverence |
| 1213 | At every Mass remind the faithful it is a Sin to receive the Eucharist unworthily or while in a State of Mortal sin | Catechesis |
| 1214 | I believe it is a combination of better catechesis of the laity to further teach and encourage the reverence needed for our Eucharistic Lord. We cannot realistically eliminate EMHC because of our lack of priests. We must set people on fire for the Lord and teach them the truth more zealously. Those who are not worthy to receive our Lord in the Eucharist should not even be presenting themselves to receive Him. It is the individual who must make a spiritual Communion, receive Confession and change their ways. It is not an easy answer and I personally believe it is a lack of good, solid catechesis and the faithful having poor personal relationships with Christ. It is going to take a lot of work to revitalize the Church but with Christ, nothing is impossible. | Catechesis, Reverence |
| 1215 | Catechism the faithful in more ways, on more topics, with more logic and reason, not just the catechism but the why and origins of the teachings | Catechesis |
| 1216 | teach mental prayer | Catechesis |
| 1217 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1218 | I would say encourage more reverence is #1, but eliminating EMHC's would be included under that, along with using patent, kneeling to reforge on tongue, and others. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition, Reverence |
| 1219 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1220 | If you acted like Christ, laypeople would feel Christ. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1221 | I’m unable to select one. Formation is the foundation but also the active demonstration of how to be in the presence of our Lord through our actions, receiving on our knees from a priest with complete reverence during mass. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1222 | Kneel down at communion rails | Return to Tradition |
| 1223 | Also to catechize the priests who have seemed to have lost their identity and that the salvation of souls be the impetus for their “programs”. | Catechesis |
| 1224 | get rid of queer priests | Leadership Reforms |
| 1225 | Instruct the seminarians in total reverence for the Eucharist | Reverence |
| 1226 | become true Christians, followers of Jesus, not denominational. Read the last chapter of Benedict xvi, introduction to Christianity | Other |
| 1227 | All of the above. Why not!!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1228 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1229 | I really don’t know because I know there is a real presence in me & the universe | Other |
| 1230 | ALL OF THE ABOVE...... | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1231 | Stop laicizing our holy priests and harboring those who are in the state of mortal sin. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1232 | Have one of petitions be that we grow in our appreciation of Christ’s True Presence in the Eucharist so people are always reminded when they go. | Prayer |
| 1233 | all of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1234 | Be living examples to the true Roman Catholic Church, not Satan's tool | Leadership Reforms |
| 1235 | unsure | Other |
| 1236 | Credibility, sexual abuse scandals are a deterrent to society as a whole. How can criminal clergy speak about faith, the Real Presence, and the Eucharist, when they have been accused and convicted for crimes committed against their communities? Hypocrisy!!???????? | Leadership Reforms |
| 1237 | all of the above!!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1238 | Be converted. Love one another. | Other |
| 1239 | ALL OF THE ABOVE - FULL STOP! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1240 | While all these are important, both receiving on the tongue while kneeling and eliminating Ext. ministers of Holy Communion are equally important. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1241 | Indecent dress code, we are in the Church not on the ??? beach | Reverence |
| 1242 | It’s two-fold; receiving the Eucharist on the tongue, on bended knee/Altar Rail by the hands of a Priest only, Not Eucharistic Ministers | Return to Tradition |
| 1243 | All’ the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1244 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1245 | Priests need to be seen going into the Adoration Chapel, they need to be more reverent when giving communion what happened to the Corpus Domine etc. said every time they gave communion. Unfortunately priests will not give up the lay people giving communion which is a huge shame. We need holier priests and more of them. | Personal Witness, Reverence |
| 1246 | Having priests be respectful and reverent when handling the Eucharist speaks volumes to the lay people. I.e. only using the pointer finger and thumb when touching the Eucharist and keeping those fingers together after touching the Eucharist, washing their fingers after giving out Communion. | Reverence |
| 1247 | I can’t specify my number one recommendation since I believe they are all of the greatest importance. Catechizing the faithful, encouraging greater reverence, increasing Eucharistic events, eliminating Extraordinary Ministers, encouraging the proper practice of receiving Communion all go hand in hand on how to improve people’s belief in the Real Presence. It starts with those in authority and with proper guidance to the shepherds of parishes, the people can truly learn why Catholicism is so different - so special - since we do have this extraordinary gift of the Holy Eucharist. They cannot say one thing and do another - they must lead by reverent examples to show how Catholicism is the one true Faith and Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist at every Holy Mass. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1248 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1249 | Then order the above from next important.... | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1250 | Shut down the Gay Mafia and their agenda | Leadership Reforms |
| 1251 | All with more reverence | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1252 | All Bishops & priests need to believe! | Leadership Reforms |
| 1253 | Increase the availability to attend the Traditional Latin Mass for all people! | Return to Tradition |
| 1254 | Cast out the perverts as consciously as you've cast out WE, the DIVORCED! | Leadership Reforms |
| 1255 | Stop acting like your better then the laity. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1256 | Treat the Blessed Sacrament as it is treated in the Traditional Latin Mass, its the best example and teaching aid there is. | Reverence |
| 1257 | All of them!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1258 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1259 | All of the above. I'm not as worried about using emoc if it is not abusive. With shortage of clergy it is needed | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1260 | The first thing children my learn is God's awesomeness and grandeur, and the need for one on one with Him to be enthralled. Connect spiritual journey with developmental theory, that is, in adolescence one who tends to be rebellious will rebel; against God, too, and | Catechesis |
| 1261 | The following are equally significant examples to follow: ALL OF THE ABOVE | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1262 | Bring back the Latin Mass which incorporates many of the above options | Return to Tradition |
| 1263 | There is more then one of the above answers | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1264 | all of the above-- | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1265 | We should have been able to check everyone of the above points. I am unable to attend Mass due to physical disabilities, but Eucharist Minister does bring me communion a home. If our bishops and priest lead a life of wickedness, how can the lay people expect to do the right thing? For a time in my life, I was a daily communicant, then when that wasn’t possible, I always went on Sunday and all Holy Days, Eucharist Adoration, etc. I am happy to say that we brought 7 children up in the faith. My husband always fortune the church and then looked for a house nearby in the years we moved around in the Army. Lay people need to look up to our bishops and priests and not be ashamed of them. If they set a better example, the people would follow. I am the only Catholic from a protestant family and I am ashamed for them to know the things that are in the news about Catholics. The way I see it, the sin is mostly coming from the hierarchy of the church. Totally DISGUSTING AND SO SAD! | Multiple Recommendations, Leadership Reforms |
| 1266 | Stop disobeying the Pope in small matters | Other |
| 1267 | TLM ALL MASSES | Return to Tradition |
| 1268 | Live holy lives. | Personal Witness |
| 1269 | The priests should act like they believe; with more reverence before, during and after Mass, and concern for the laity through their sermons. If all priests/bishops would read 30 Days to Eucharistic Revival by Fr Don Calloway, and follow the recommendations he suggests, and teach those recommendations to their parishioners, I believe we would see some changes among we the laity | Personal Witness |
| 1270 | Receive the Eucharist in a very Sacred Way | Reverence |
| 1271 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1272 | Reinstate No Social Talking before/during/after Mass so people can pray! DO tell us theology about the Eucharist & show from scripture why it must be that Jesus is Really Present, how Catholics have it right because transubstantiation is the only explanation that makes sense. One can't have faith in miracles, in prayer, in the HS, in personal relationship and then just stop, right there at the Eucharist and declare "faith has no place here. Jesus is everywhere doing everything except here, in the Mass, right at the point of receiving communion with Him. Oh no. That's just memory. A symbol. Jesus can't be this substance. That's too small, too material, too unworthy. But yes, I believe Jesus in incarnate God/Man." Thinking that doesn't make logical sense. So Catholics HAVE to be right. They are the only ones who are logical. IMO. | Catechesis, Reverence |
| 1273 | The use of Altar Rails… so a combination of kneeing and on tongue with the elimination of EMHC. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1274 | Increase overall Reverence of the Eucharist by receiving on the tongue while kneeling by the hands of a priest and at the same time withholding the Eucharist from those who don’t recognize Jesus’ Presence through their public acts of blasphemy. | Return to Tradition, Reverence |
| 1275 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1276 | Stay out of politics and come down hard on sexual scandals. Stop hiding and moving predators around so that they can continue to cause harm. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1277 | Education regarding the dangers of communism and how this impacts the Catholic Church, and the role the Catholic Church plays in countering communism within and without the Church. Then Encourage practice of receiving Eucharist on tongue while kneeling. | Catechesis, Return to Tradition |
| 1278 | Public Announcement of Excommunication of nonrepentant "Catholic" leaders holding state and Church office who obstinately reject Catholic Pro-Life Pro-Family Pro-Christ teachings.. | Canon 915 |
| 1279 | Return to a liturgy that in all ways makes evident that Our Lord is truly present. | Return to Tradition |
| 1280 | Everything you spoke of matters. Allowing and promoting a liturgy that encompasses all these reverences is the only way to bring back belief of the True Presence. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1281 | More religious education, explanation, reminders, etc.. | Catechesis |
| 1282 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1283 | Create and install bishops who actually believe in the Real Presence and who defend the faith without exception. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1284 | Use kindness and love over judgement. Stop emphasizing personal sim over community support | Other |
| 1285 | All of the Above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1286 | Bring warm, reverent, holy, traditional churches filled with saints, rather than modernistic, void spaces. | Return to Tradition |
| 1287 | All of the above AND return Tabernacles to the center of the Church & emphasize genuflections. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1288 | Only the priest administers Holy Communion. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 1289 | Return altar rails and only priests administered communion on the tongue. What is the purpose of the washing of hands if anyone is allowed to touch the host. It doesn’t feel like the church even takes this seriously so of course the laity wouldn’t either. That is only a start. | Return to Tradition |
| 1290 | All of the above are important. Perhaps these should be ranked. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1291 | Be more inclusive and connect God’s word more practically to our daily lives. | Other |
| 1292 | Catechize at every age will bring knowledge of Real Presence requiring silence, reverence, acceptance of punishment as God Justice, Only Priest and ordained ministers Holy enough to touch Eucharist. Church is Holy ground requiring proper reverence. Having attended Catholic school grades K through 12 but my lack of knowledge of the faith led to my failure as a parent to make our home a truly Holy home. Only 1 of 3 daughters practices the faith. How do I get the other 2, at ages 30 and 34, to go back to the faith of their youth? If only I had a proper understanding of the Bible, scripture and tradition that I could have taught my children the way to go! | Catechesis |
| 1293 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1294 | Preach the WORD, be diligent to teach the truth. Be bold and courageous. Is Vigano the only brave preacher? | Catechesis |
| 1295 | I think all actions/changes should be oriented toward eventually returning to receiving Holy Eucharist kneeling and on the tongue ideally - this demonstrates the most respectful and humble reception. That said, any actions which would return respectful actions such as central tabernacle, genuflection, processions, etc. - ALL would promote the Eucharist as something extraordinary and something special. I would also rank elimination of EM's except to the unusual circumstances they were intended for as an important step. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1296 | Shelve Vatican II as a failed attempt to undermine the faithful. | Return to Tradition |
| 1297 | We need to get girls and women more involved in the Mass. We honor the Virgin Mary, but when it comes down to it females can only be Sacristans and Readers. Also, show respect to the Elders in the Parish; they are being neglected . | Other |
| 1298 | I would link your suggestions: 1,2,3 & 5 together for ongoing instruction during homilies & ministries. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1299 | Talk about our Blessed Mother and the power of her intercession. | Catechesis |
| 1300 | Encourage the TLM and eliminate the NO liturgy. | Return to Tradition |
| 1301 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1302 | Prosecute Homosexual and Pedophilic Deacons, Priests, Bishop's and Cardinals. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1303 | All of the above. In my diocese Springfield-Cape Girardeau, MO we only perform two on a realistic level, i.e., Adoration and some, yet inconsistent, attempt at promoting reverence. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1304 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1305 | Reinstall the faith of our fathers through the mass of the ages, the traditional Latin mass. | Return to Tradition |
| 1306 | These are all so good though! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1307 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1308 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1309 | Encourage them to receive on the tongue with out rail it would be hard for people to get up. | Return to Tradition |
| 1310 | Teach our priests to love the mass again. Bring them encouragement to really know the presence of our Lord. He is there in that host. They get to be so close to Him in every mass. Be on fire for Christ! So your parishioners may be on fire as well! | Leadership Reforms, Catechesis |
| 1311 | Make the church less about appearances and more about substance | Other |
| 1312 | Also receive kneeling and on the tongue. | Return to Tradition |
| 1313 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1314 | I think encouraging reverence towards the Eucharist through the example of the clergy and through better catechesis will result in better understanding of the reality of the Eucharist. Ultimately, the more reverence is witnessed, either through example or instruction, the more seriously people will take the Eucharist. We must treat the Body and Blood of Christ with the utmost care and reverence, otherwise why would someone believe that God is really present and in front of them? Witnessing irreverence encourages more irreverence. | Reverence |
| 1315 | again allowing Eucharist ministers including women to give Holy Communion. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 1316 | Teach the Scripture that Jesus said this is my body this is my blood. He never told a lie. | Catechesis |
| 1317 | ALL OF THE ABOVE!!!!!!!!!! BRING THE KNEELERS BACK | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1318 | No socializing in church outside | Reverence |
| 1319 | I think that we have to go back to only priests giving out communion. They are the only ones with consecrated hands. I also feel we should kneel when receiving and the communion rails should come back. We should all fall on our knees. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1320 | Restore the Latin Mass as the "preferred form" in the Roman Rite. | Return to Tradition |
| 1321 | I think all of the above is needed I could not pick one because it's bad. More people go to communion then confession so it's beyond just 1 sort of "fix" it's all of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1322 | Make a commitment to follow Jesus call to feed the poor and welcome the stranger, etc. | Other |
| 1323 | Return to the Tridentine Rite | Return to Tradition |
| 1324 | Sharing knowledge of Eucharistic Miracles | Catechesis |
| 1325 | All of the above are important. But most important, catechize the Catholic priests and deacons first! It's difficult for the laity to even consider the possibility of the Real Presence when the ordained priests and deacons themselves do not show proper respect, reverence, humility, adoration of the Holy Eucharist and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. When the ordained priests and deacons consistently model appropriate behavior, belief, humility (via words and actions) toward Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, then the laity will start to notice and learn. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1326 | Restore ad orientem liturgy and install altar rails | Return to Tradition |
| 1327 | Get to know and love the people in your diocese so you can understand what is for their good. Take abuse seriously. Seek authentic holiness and encourage priests in your diocese to preach it. Do not seek notoriety (ESPECIALLY on social media - if you use it, use it for preaching and building up ALL the people in your diocese) outside of your diocese. PRAY. Do not view the success of your diocese primarily in terms of Mass attendance or money. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1328 | Bring back the traditional Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 1329 | ALL OF THE ABOVE !!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1330 | Emphasis on the Miraculous/Supernatural Nature of the Eucharist | Catechesis |
| 1331 | Reestablish the faith in the laity by teaching the catechism and the reality of sin and eternal damnation | Catechesis |
| 1332 | Priest to say the prayers slowly, meaningfully and with reverence. Fr Fog & Fr Borkenhagen especially mean it when they consecrate the host & wine. | Reverence |
| 1333 | Eliminate Marxist/homosexualist bishops | Leadership Reforms |
| 1334 | All of the above and encourage the TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS RETURN ASAP. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1335 | Encourage those receiving communion to say 'AMEN' from the heart, whether that means being louder, deeper or softer, or even saying 'I believe' ... whatever is needed so the Lord hears us. | Catechesis |
| 1336 | all of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1337 | Education education education!!!! Educate on reverence in the Church proper, during Mass, receiving communion, educate on John 6 the Eucharistic discourse, educate on transubstantiation. I really believe if people really knew their faith there would be a revival all on our own. Can’t live what you don’t know or understand. Fr Heilman has educated piece by piece on the Mass and now has a very reverent Novus Ordo Mass. Would be interesting to know if belief in true presence escalated after that | Catechesis |
| 1338 | 1-4 above, especially receiving Our Lord in a state of mortal sin and its offensiveness to God | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1339 | Due to no Latin Mass offered here and no transportation I cannot attend Mass. Was going to NO Mass until I could stand no more abuse | Return to Tradition |
| 1340 | All of the Above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1341 | Teach the faith from the pulpit. Teach what mortal sin is. Why missing Sunday mass is mortal sin and will damage faith, relationships, moral judgment, families if left unconfessed. Why are priests afraid/ashamed/ignorant of Catholic teaching? | Catechesis |
| 1342 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1343 | ALL OF THE ABOVE ?? | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1344 | Make the Traditional Latin Mass the normative form of the Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 1345 | all of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1346 | Teach tradition and what Vatican II actually promoted | Catechesis |
| 1347 | Jesus’s presence in the Eucharist is not political! No one should receive Him who openly supports abortion! These bishops and priests are weak. It’s time to stand up for God and not allow it! Biden et Al should never have gotten communion from that pope. Also catechize Catholics properly! Bring back traditional values, get rid of Novus ordo, communion should only be given on the tongue while kneeling! 12 years in Catholic school/college (Loyola New Orleans)and I didn’t know anything, catechize! | Leadership Reforms, Canon 915, Return to Tradition |
| 1348 | No more ENCOURAGEMENT. CHANGE the practices to receiving on the tongue while kneeling. Treat the Eucharist like it IS the Body of Our Lord! Don't allow public heretics and sinners to receive. Tell people that they won't be allowed to receive if they aren't dressed REVERENTLY. No one but the priest can touch the Sacred Species or vessels. No women on the Altar (like its been for 5000 years). Start ACTING like its the TRUE Body of Christ and the Faithful will start to BELIEVE IT! | Return to Tradition |
| 1349 | Clean up the conduct of bishops and then the priests under them, it is disgusting, no one will listen to hypocrites and sinners | Leadership Reforms |
| 1350 | All these options are facets of the second one - catechesis. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1351 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1352 | Strong religious ed classes on the Eucharist | Catechesis |
| 1353 | Teach the faith. I was poorly catechized thanks to the watering down of tradition since Vatican II. I know I am not alone. I have had to learn much in recent years, things that if educated properly I would not need to seek. I would know them. | Catechesis |
| 1354 | Eliminate Vatican 2 | Return to Tradition |
| 1355 | Be extremists, roll back everything since VII and start over because this isn't working. | Return to Tradition |
| 1356 | Emphasis Christ in creation, abandon true presence dogma. | Catechesis |
| 1357 | Have chair kneelers at communion area | Return to Tradition |
| 1358 | Make the church a safe place by having strong consequences for clergy who are disobedient and reparation to victims. Making the complaints prices easier, then I will come back to church | Leadership Reforms |
| 1359 | all of the above/any of the above, the Eucharist is so disrespected | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1360 | I can’t pick just one from above list. I think they are all needed to be put into practice. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1361 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1362 | All of the above. Seriously! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1363 | Encourage each one to commit to growing in holiness and a personal relationship with JESUS by participating in the Holy Mass more than just on Sunday, Adoration, praying the Rosary daily and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, while calling daily on the Holy Spirit and thanking one's Guardian Angel. | Adoration |
| 1364 | And all the others above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1365 | Eliminate stupid contemporary music. It’s amazing how that musical pablum sucks the reverence and holiness out of the Mass. | Return to Tradition |
| 1366 | All of the above except the Eucharist ministers. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1367 | ALL OF THE ABOVE | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1368 | Rid the Church of pedophiles, homosexuals. Bring justice to those that break both the law and Catholic Canon. Rid the Church of debauchery and priests associated with it. We are hypocrites when we don’t. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1369 | Eliminate the Novus Ordo | Return to Tradition |
| 1370 | All of the above except EMofHC but I will say that our priest is very reverent and does most of the above. We love him. Encourage school Mass kids to walk, not run out of church after Mass. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1371 | Educate people that when receiving communion in the hand, they are responsible for looking for “visible ”Eucharistic particles remaining in their hand, and if there are, they must be consumed. Or if people do not want to take on this responsibility, while cautioning against scrupulosity, they should be encouraged to receive communion on the tongue. | Return to Tradition |
| 1372 | Allow the Traditional Latin Mass for all who wish to worship according to the age old tradition of the church and the saints. | Return to Tradition |
| 1373 | Celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass where all these above recommendations are already in place. | Return to Tradition |
| 1374 | The Bishops who have become complacent and more like diplomats need to repent and lead the priests in their diocese to true worship of Jesus in the Eucharist. Until the leadership changes, nothing will change. Our Bishops need to repent or leave their positions and outlawing the Latin Mass as recently suggested by our Pope brings division not unity. In addition, our Catholic Church should not fall victim to the ways of Fr James Martin or other priests who preach that homosexuality is accepted behavior. I folk Fr James Kirby, Fr Chris Alar, Fr Mike Schmitz, and Fr Ripperger and Fr Mark Goring as well as EWTN to fill in the gaps not provided within our archdiocese | Leadership Reforms |
| 1375 | Return to celebration of the mass Ad Orientum | Return to Tradition |
| 1376 | Both receiving on the tongue and eliminate Extraordinary ministers | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1377 | Needing to appreciate and encourage the teachings of Vatican II | Catechesis |
| 1378 | Deal with homosexuality in local priests. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1379 | On the tongue, kneeling, and FROM a PRIEST (how it should read), Confession before Masses. | Return to Tradition |
| 1380 | Focus on teachings and validity rather than magical thinking and unrealistic supernatural stories very hard to believe in this day and age. Focus on making religion a balanced mix of faith, logic and science friendly for example, use biology to clarify weird sexual notions prevalent in the west are not exactly healthy nor scientific without demonizing the individual suffering from sexual perversions, confusions and disorders. Also try to explain the personal and social merits of the new testament in personal send social life etc. | Catechesis |
| 1381 | TLM only | Return to Tradition |
| 1382 | All of the above apply | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1383 | Greater reverence for the species at the consecration | Reverence |
| 1384 | All the Above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1385 | Return to the traditional Latin mass | Return to Tradition |
| 1386 | Use Ad Orientem and altar rails | Return to Tradition |
| 1387 | Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 1388 | Please, please, please KEEP THE LATIN MASS!. | Return to Tradition |
| 1389 | All the above. Every single one of these options listed above should be implemented. Keep lay people off the altar and form seminarians to become holy priests. If the priest is sanctified then the people will be sanctified. Make the liturgy beautiful and holy and then people will believe. I started attending the TLM 3 years ago and once I saw the reverence for the Eucharist and the liturgy that is when I started taking my faith more seriously. You can make the Novus Ordo holier too and you must if you want to bring the faithful to God. | Multiple Recommendations, Return to Tradition |
| 1390 | All of the ABOVE | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1391 | Actually step up and take responsibility for the continued abuse happening in the Church and end the politicization of the faith | Leadership Reforms |
| 1392 | All of the above and free the Roman Rite for the faithful. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1393 | If people must receive Jesus kneeling and on the tongue, it forces them to stop and ask why. It forces them to choose in either believing wholeheartedly or leaving. People are ok with accepting difficult truths, they want something to believe in, so give them a reason to believe. Challenge people! Couple it with eliminating ministers of Holy Communion and they'll really be forced to stop and think, "why are we treating that Host so sacred?" I think it is important that these two are done in conjunction with each other. | Return to Tradition |
| 1394 | Eliminate homosexuals from priesthood | Leadership Reforms |
| 1395 | Return to Pre-Vatican II norms and practice in regards to liturgy, discipline, and catechism. | Return to Tradition |
| 1396 | encourage Roman Catholics to come to the Eastern Catholic liturgies, or to go to Tridentine or Anglican rite masses. The whole form of the Novus Ordo undermines the Real Presence. | Return to Tradition |
| 1397 | ALL of the above are #1 | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1398 | I agree with all of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1399 | Bring parishioners together more to pray | Prayer |
| 1400 | Blast ALL media sources with the TRUTH as we learned in the 1950s. Put REAL messages on radio. regular TV about Catholicism, Pro-life, Death, Satan, hell, evil, Mass. Bombard ears with THE REAL TRUTH as on EWTN Catholic TV. | Other |
| 1401 | Make the Traditional Latin Mass freely available and more catechizing the faithful. | Return to Tradition |
| 1402 | Speak to it and remind people of its uniqueness | Catechesis |
| 1403 | Shut down the Gay Mafia and their agenda | Leadership Reforms |
| 1404 | Greater access to the Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 1405 | See notes above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1406 | All the above are wonderful options and should All be implemented. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1407 | We need a third Vatican Council to modernize the church. Stagnation is killing it. A return to orthodoxy is killing it | Other |
| 1408 | Figure out how to bring hollowness back to the church. | Return to Tradition |
| 1409 | All the options are needed. I believe the bishops failed hugely and most of them did it purposefully. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1410 | all of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1411 | Resign and allow clerics who are dedicated entirely to ministry to lead the Church back to its own teachings | Leadership Reforms |
| 1412 | Do what Our Lord commanded you to do. " Humbly " | Reverence |
| 1413 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1414 | Everything. Especially catechizing and encouraging reverence. | Multiple Recommendations, Catechesis, Reverence |
| 1415 | Restore altar rails | Return to Tradition |
| 1416 | When transubstantiation is taking place, the priest needs to slow down. It should be reverenced by all. It needs to be holy minutes not seconds. | Reverence |
| 1417 | all the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1418 | Receive Holy Eucharist on the tongue, stress Gods sacrament of Mercy, confession. Have priests deacons Only give Holy Communion. More time for thanksgiving after receiving. | Return to Tradition |
| 1419 | Attend the Latin Mass. I did not recognize the real presence while attending the Novus Ordo. It wasn’t until I attended the Latin Mass that I recognized the real presence. | Return to Tradition |
| 1420 | Have altar rails, making it easier to kneel and receive on tongue | Return to Tradition |
| 1421 | all of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1422 | all of the above!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1423 | Having a saving faith in Christ that comes through Biblical literacy | Catechesis |
| 1424 | Get back to true theology. Theology should better explain what already exists instead of twisting the truth to remain popular. | Catechesis |
| 1425 | Return to the Traditional Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 1426 | Help child understand and know how to defend their faith in school, in the world, and after they leave home. | Catechesis |
| 1427 | Actions, not words. Eliminate ENHCs and administer communion kneeling on the tongue with a properly vested MALE altar server holding a paten comes first, then words (Catechism and decrees withholding communion from obstinate public sinners) will not be hypocritical. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1428 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1429 | It must be all that promote true belief in the Real Presence. On the tongue while kneeling, catechize, only those recognized by the church fathers handling our lord in the Eucharist. Salt on the tongue at baptism and being taught why. Catechism and outward reverence, kneeling and nodding of the head at the Name of Jesus | Multiple Recommendations, Return to Tradition |
| 1430 | Catechism properly taught all through life would result in all of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1431 | All of the above can be obtained through exclusively offering the TLM. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1432 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1433 | I feel as though receiving while kneeling is just as important as only receiving from the priest's consecrated hands. The two should not be divorced from each other. | Return to Tradition |
| 1434 | Increase Eucharistic events like Adoration and also deny Holy Communion from public figured who reject traditional Catholic teaching | Canon 915, Adoration |
| 1435 | Emphasize the importance of the sacrament of confession | Confession |
| 1436 | All of the above!!!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1437 | Tough one because I see the need to receive Communion kneeling & on the tongue AND the elimination of extraordinary ministers of holy Communion as the greatest way to recapture the sacred nature of the Eucharist. | Multiple Recommendations, Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 1438 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1439 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1440 | See Archbishop Salvatore Calderon-back him up! | Other |
| 1441 | ALL of the above is necessary. It's not just 1 thing to do, but ALL as each aspect sends a message that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist, and by carrying out all of these duties along with much needed education solidify that laity and priests have a responsibility to do the will of God and not our own or society's, and it is imperative to receive the Eucharist worthily. If receiving the Eucharist in a state of mortal sin, we heap condemnation upon our own heads. Priests rarely speak of this and should. Bishops tell priests to make all homilies light and short and in essence offer nothing for the salvation of souls, which is their primary duty. To save souls by doing God's will and not their own or a bishop's that just wants the bank account filled. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1442 | All of the above. You cannot just do one thing. People cannot receive in the hand or it makes no sense to eliminate Ordinary ministers. The priest should explain WHY their hands were ANNOINTED. The Eucharist also needs to be withheld from people who reject Catholic teaching. The impact won't be there if you don't enforce ALL of these things. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1443 | Restore reverence and proper ceremony in the mass. Priests are leaders praying to God on our behalf and not overseers. | Leadership Reforms, Return to Tradition |
| 1444 | If receiving on the tongue, kneeling, was encouraged it would then lead to catechesis on why we show that reverence, which would hopefully lead us all to the truth. | Return to Tradition |
| 1445 | All of these | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1446 | Both encourage receiving on the tongue while kneeling and refuse to administer the Eucharist to public figures who hold positions that promote or encourage mortal sin, until they repent and take a public position consistent with Church teachings. | Canon 915, Return to Tradition |
| 1447 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1448 | Include in homily.. for those of you receiving Jesus in the Eucharist today, remember to tell Him (lesson from homily) | Catechesis |
| 1449 | All. The Eucharist is the source and summit. We should do everything we can to improve people's belief in the Real Presence. | Catechesis |
| 1450 | Also, Eucharistic Ministers are not only unnecessary, but completely undermine the Sacred Priesthood which only a Priest's Consecrated hands should be touching the Holy Eucharist. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 1451 | All of the above needs to be addressed ASAP! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1452 | There are 2: Catechize the faithful and without from public officials who reject Catholic teaching | Canon 915, Catechesis |
| 1453 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1454 | Eliminate deacons preaching. | Other |
| 1455 | Witness to being in the real Presence as to how it transforming and graced filled | Personal Witness |
| 1456 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1457 | Show us your devotion | Personal Witness |
| 1458 | Drain the Catholic swamp of homos and pedo in USCCB | Leadership Reforms |
| 1459 | All of them are equally important, but receiving the Holy Eucharist by mouth and kneeling (for those who are physically able to) is so very important, with withholding Holy Communion, as well as excommunication (for people such as President Biden and Nancy Pelosi) for their continued support of abortion, homosexuality, transgenderism, and refusal to change their views. | Multiple Recommendations, Return to Tradition |
| 1460 | Too hard to decide….they are all valid…..but I know that probably half of the people going up for communion have not been to confession for years….nobody ever mentions that as a big reason people no longer believe in the real presence | Confession, Multiple Recommendations |
| 1461 | ALL are important; cannot single out only one. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1462 | visits to homebound by deacons or priests. bringing holy communion and confession. | Confession |
| 1463 | receive kneeling and on the tongue from a priest or deacon with a paten held by a male alter server under the chin | Return to Tradition |
| 1464 | All of the above are extremely important. I recommend all. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1465 | Educate us on the damage we do by receiving while in mortal sin, educate us on mortal sin | Catechesis |
| 1466 | Convert yourselves | Leadership Reforms |
| 1467 | end receiving in the hand | Return to Tradition |
| 1468 | I don't think there can be just 1. I think there needs to be a combination of withholding the Eucharist from public officials who reject Catholic teaching as well as encouraging all of us to greater reverence for the Eucharist. | Multiple Recommendations, Catechesis |
| 1469 | All of the above are equally necessary. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1470 | Bring Him out, churches are closed and adoration or the sacramentas are hard to find near me | Adoration |
| 1471 | Other 5 would sure help | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1472 | FROM THE PULPIT EVERY WEEK - Catechize! | Catechesis |
| 1473 | Every one of these is very important in helping the Faithful understand that they are truly receiving God in the Holy Eucharist. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1474 | Return to fasting and receiving kneeling | Return to Tradition |
| 1475 | All of the above!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1476 | Get rid of extraordinary ministers | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 1477 | Communion on the tongue while kneeling | Return to Tradition |
| 1478 | Restore the Latin Mass at all parishes | Return to Tradition |
| 1479 | All of the above. We have little time before the anniversary of Tuy | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1480 | Encourage receiving holy communion kneeling and on the tongue | Return to Tradition |
| 1481 | Our bishops need to be more in line with each other to defend the deposit of faith and the Eucharist. They are willy-nilly. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1482 | He host should be given only by the priest or deacon. | Return to Tradition |
| 1483 | Place Tabernacles on Altar as before!! | Tabernacle Location |
| 1484 | Live the faith hold self to higher standard don't fall prey to lures of contemporary culture rot | Other |
| 1485 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1486 | Number 1and4 | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1487 | Believe there is not just one issue all the ones you listed are important and should be considered | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1488 | Eucharist in the tongue kneeling if capable, thanksgiving after Mass, not leaving like Judas did as soon as Jesus is received at the Novus Ordo Mass, more Eucharist Public processions , and withholding the Eucharist on who publicly reject church teachings | Return to Tradition |
| 1489 | Eliminate Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion. Too superstitious, beyond it's rightful time. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 1490 | Stop the church and clerical abuses as the abuse crisis is worse than ever and destroys faith | Leadership Reforms |
| 1491 | Teach more about the Eucharist | Catechesis |
| 1492 | The bishops must first show that they believe in the Real Presence by living that belief. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1493 | Eliminating Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion and encouraging greater reverence for the Eucharist are both part of increasing reverence for the Eucharist - also encouraging the practice of receiving the Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling | Multiple Recommendations, Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 1494 | Catechize the faithful answer…in clear cut terms, no mincing words. | Catechesis |
| 1495 | Move tabernacle to center of the altar and genuflect often… | Tabernacle Location |
| 1496 | All of the above AND bishops priests set the example others can & will(?) imitate. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1497 | All of above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1498 | It has to be both kneeling & on the tongue AND eliminate EMHCs! | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1499 | Use Extraordinary Ministers according to how they were intended to be used, in real necessity, not just to shorten the reception time by a few minutes | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 1500 | The Bishops need to act like they believe it completely, at all times! Instead of trying to get along with the world, as when Cardinal Dolan hid his pectoral cross when praying before the US Congress! LIVE the Faith! | Leadership Reforms, Personal Witness |
| 1501 | Start with the young starting confirmations at age 5 or 6. Teaching them that the real presence and what the mass is about. Over and over so they understand. | Catechesis |
| 1502 | All of the above.. more modest dress at Mass/Church. Tired of impure dress revealing too much skin, cleavage etc. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1503 | Need more Catholic teachers. Encourage women to become nuns | Other |
| 1504 | All of the above. It really is a disaster | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1505 | Increase confession and adoration and teach contemplative prayer | Prayer, Catechesis |
| 1506 | All answers should be selected | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1507 | Teach and encourage daily prayer | Prayer, Catechesis |
| 1508 | Encourage personal testimony, for instance, I am totally gluten-free but God told me I could receive you Chris because it is his body and blood and I have been doing so for 40 years with no allergic reaction | Catechesis |
| 1509 | Lex orandi, lex credendi. There needs to be a return to the perennial Mass and doctrine, as the two are inseparable. | Return to Tradition |
| 1510 | All of the above are important | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1511 | Courageously RESIST Modernist Rome's infernal efforts to eliminate the Mass of the Ages! | Return to Tradition |
| 1512 | Become sedevacantist | Other |
| 1513 | The Bishops must Both Catechize the laity on Transubstantiation/Worthy reception AND get rid of taking communion in the hand AND get rid of the ever Ubiquitous "Extraordinary" Eucharistic ministers. Words mean things. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 1514 | Encourage the TLM. It fixes everything. | Return to Tradition |
| 1515 | Bring Latin Mass and Music back | Return to Tradition |
| 1516 | All the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1517 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1518 | All of the above. Refresher catechism for adults before the Mass | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1519 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1520 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1521 | Mass must be offered ad orientem. Otherwise the posture of the priest during Mass must be offensive to God (whoever speaks to someone about something important while his back is turned to Him!) and it's misleading to the people in the pews by making it appear that the priest is speaking to them! | Return to Tradition |
| 1522 | All the above, and return the Tridentine without reservations | Multiple Recommendations, Return to Tradition |
| 1523 | Does everyone (the entire participants at mass) at mass really gone to confession. I say this because I see people go just to receive because they don’t know what to do when with a friend go to confession? I don’t receive when I know I am not worthy and need to go to confession. | Confession |
| 1524 | ALL of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1525 | Embrace the TLM | Return to Tradition |
| 1526 | Teach the people to NOT talk (fellowship) in the church before and after Mass. Silence and reverence before the tabernacle are imperative! | Catechesis |
| 1527 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1528 | Restore the traditional Latin Mass, the ONLY Roman Rite. | Return to Tradition |
| 1529 | All the above. You can’t pick just one. It’s the body, blood, soul, and divinity or our God. He deserves our best and highest reverence. It’s a matter of justice. It’s owed. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1530 | All of the above; greater use of TLM | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1531 | All the above is needed | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1532 | Eliminate extraordinary ministers of holy communion, Priest face the tabernacle | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 1533 | Ad Orientem worship | Return to Tradition |
| 1534 | Stop persecuting the Extraordinary Form of the Holy Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 1535 | restoring the 1962/pre-1955 missals at every parish | Return to Tradition |
| 1536 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1537 | As orientem worship + greater reverence | Return to Tradition |
| 1538 | Ad Orientem | Return to Tradition |
| 1539 | It’s not one, and I don’t exclusively go to the Latin mass, options didn’t fit me but it is primary. It’s an all around constellation. Primarily treatment, which altar rails, communion on the tongue, and many of the other things support. EMHC are not helpful, we treat the most sacred thing like a flyer, people will think of it similarly. Liturgy, architecture, discipline (915 etc.) support and point to the meaning. It’s really a crisis of leadership so that all these things support the teaching ( has to be lived and sheep need to be lead). Excuse typos, on my phone | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1540 | Restore the Mass to the Tridentine rite exclusively, abolish the Novus Ordo | Return to Tradition |
| 1541 | Say the traditional Latin Mass exclusively | Return to Tradition |
| 1542 | Ad Orientum. How can they believe if the priest spends the whole Mass with his back to Christ? | Return to Tradition |
| 1543 | Phase out the Novus Ordo, return to pre-1962 liturgy | Return to Tradition |
| 1544 | Go back to Traditional (2 These 2:15) Mass preferably all Latin one hour reverent worship; otherwise I guess vernacular fine but at least one Latin weekly | Return to Tradition |
| 1545 | Put the Tabernacle directly behind the altar and consecration done ad orientem. | Tabernacle Location |
| 1546 | All of these are important. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1547 | Teach and receive kneeling on the tongue | Return to Tradition |
| 1548 | Promote TLM attendance | Return to Tradition |
| 1549 | Increase access to the Extraordinary Form of the Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 1550 | This is a case of all of the above. Bishops priests AND laity need to work together to do all of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1551 | All of the above and encourage the Latin mass | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1552 | All of these. Which, upon an honest inspection, would be accomplished with TLM emphasis (if not solely required). | Multiple Recommendations, Return to Tradition |
| 1553 | offer the traditional Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 1554 | Expand the access to the TLM in every city or the very least in every deanery. | Return to Tradition |
| 1555 | Focus outward not inward. Show Jesus to others, we will find him in the Eucharist. As St John Christin said—if we do not find Jesus in the beggar at the door, we will not find him in the Chalice. | Other |
| 1556 | All of the above, but with catechizing, hopefully error would topple! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1557 | All of the above!!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1558 | Can't choose 1. Numbering 1-6: 1,2,6,3,4,5 | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1559 | Bring back the Latin mass. They changed it to NO before they could change it back to. All answers will be solved | Return to Tradition |
| 1560 | All of the above plus abolish the Novus Ordo. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1561 | Allow full access to traditional Latin Mass everywhere | Return to Tradition |
| 1562 | With respect: end female altar servers, female lectors, ELMHC's | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1563 | Ad Orientem posture. | Return to Tradition |
| 1564 | truly, each of these listed are equally #1 to me | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1565 | Educate Catholics with the miracles of Jesus. We have a new Eucharist miracle video each month and it has been eye opening to see the I. All cases the Hot is still bleeding. Spiritual development of kids, in 8th grade to 12th grade is also needed. Like Christian awakening, topics of Mary, apostles, and a focus on not only believing but feeling Jesus in their lives. and never ever ever fail a high school kid In religion. This happened to my son and as soon as he graduated from a catholic school of 13 years, he left the church. He is now 41 and still has not returned. | Catechesis |
| 1566 | Demonstrate real commitment and live ascetical lives | Leadership Reforms |
| 1567 | Eliminate the Novus Ordo mass forever which harbors all of the above. No amount of catechesis will counter the constant public witness of people desecrating the probably validly consecrated Eucharist at a NO mass. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1568 | To focus more on Jesus/God than on the rituals of the church. We also need better speaking Priest that we can understanding and who can hold hour attention. | Other |
| 1569 | All of the Above. Or just #2. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1570 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1571 | Include comments on transubstantiation and Eucharistic miracles in every homily. | Catechesis |
| 1572 | Encourage: the Eucharist the way to develop our personal relationship with Christ | Other |
| 1573 | All need to be done | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1574 | Kill the Novus Ordo | Return to Tradition |
| 1575 | Eliminate lay Eucharistic ministers, and ONLY allow priests to distribute(?) Communion—noting that even deacons don’t have consecrated hands will/should/might reestablish the importance and significance of the vocation of the priest in our lives. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 1576 | Most of these actions will help. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1577 | Accept that the Protestant Novus Ordo religion is not the true Catholic faith. Resign your position if you do not renounce the Novus Ordo religion. Without fear of loosing your nonprofit status publicly excommunicate all Catholic politicians in your diocese who support abortion. | Return to Tradition |
| 1578 | Altar, priest & all parishioners FACE Jesus - Ad Orientem & receive kneeling on tongue | Return to Tradition |
| 1579 | Move the tabernacle to the center, and let us receive on our tongues while kneeling | Tabernacle Location, Return to Tradition |
| 1580 | Expand the TLM everywhere. Believe and act like you believe the Catholic Faith. | Return to Tradition |
| 1581 | Ban, rather than discourage, receiving Communion in the hand | Return to Tradition |
| 1582 | None | Other |
| 1583 | I would like to select ever single one of these answers with one edit. Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion are needed for extraordinary circumstances. Although the Mass is extraordinary, it is not the circumstance in which this ministry should be used. If regular Sunday mass takes more time because only ones with the sacrament of Holy Orders distribute Holy Communion, then so be it. Enough with rushing through our liturgy and prayer time with Christ present in the Eucharist and at that point, literally in our body. God bless you and thank you for creating this survey. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1584 | Use the Roman Canon, enforce Canon 915, move tabernacles back to the front and center in Parish Churches, no versus populum Mass | Tabernacle Location, Canon 915 |
| 1585 | Get rid of the Latin at St Mar’s Charlevoix | Other |
| 1586 | All of the above-and show that YOU believe by never allowing any disrespect towards the Real Presence regardless of who is doing it. God demands adoration. He is Lord and King and we should respond as such. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1587 | All of the above. The Pastor is key. If he believes, his parishioners will believe. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1588 | Eliminate Communion in the hand AND Extraordinary Ministers | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1589 | Offering the Mass ad orientem, at the very least during the Liturgy of the Eucharist. THEN encourage the practice of receiving the Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling. Those two things alone would make an enormous impact... lex orandi, lex credendi. | Return to Tradition |
| 1590 | Bring back altar rails, this way you will receive on the tongue while kneeling, and it will eliminate extraordinary ministers of holy communion. | Return to Tradition |
| 1591 | Eliminate extraordinary ministers, Catechize the faithful, and encourage the practice of receiving the Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 1592 | TLM!! | Return to Tradition |
| 1593 | Receiving while kneeling on tongue along with receiving from priest is mutually important. They should not be separated. | Return to Tradition |
| 1594 | Received by the priest on your kneeling and on the tongue only | Return to Tradition |
| 1595 | Calling the Mass a sacrifice not a celebration. Kneeling and genuflecting when proper. Receiving Eucharist on the tongue at an alter rail. Enforcement of cell phones during mass. Teaching us when to stand, sit, kneel during the services. Extending hands when only the priest should. Kneeling before the tabernacle when crossing in front of the Presence. Only male lectors. Veils for women Holy music not modern tunes. | Return to Tradition |
| 1596 | Reverent mass especially ad orientem | Return to Tradition |
| 1597 | Undo Vatican 2 | Return to Tradition |
| 1598 | Must give 3, 1) withhold Eucharist from guilty public officials 2) Encourage receiving on the tongue while kneeling 3) Eliminate extraordinary ministers. Why doesn’t the church already know these things? Ans. The upper levels of our church are conspiring with the devil. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 1599 | It has been said that in order to fill the pews a priest must fill the confessional. | Confession |
| 1600 | Demonstrate their belief in the True Presence by installing altar rails in all their Churches and offering only communion on the tongue while kneeling | Return to Tradition |
| 1601 | Liberate the TLM | Return to Tradition |
| 1602 | Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 1603 | Move the sign of peace to the start of mass, so we're not turning our backs on the Eucharist, sitting on the altar. Then sit back up once he is in repose, to make absolutely clear why we kneel. | Return to Tradition |
| 1604 | Say the Saint Michael prayer after mass. Banned in my province. | Prayer |
| 1605 | Don’t do surveys like this | Other |
| 1606 | Catholics do not emphasize the Bible anywhere near enough; relying much more on tradition and magisterium. Nowhere in God's Word does it say a priest or anyone else can turn a host and wine into the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. Jesus also never said we should pray to dead people. I was brought up Catholic, & never knew they had removed the 2nd commandment of God. Thou shall have NO idols. What a nerve. Catholic Church has done so much corruption of God's Word. And despite what they say now, I know how I was taught to pray TO the SAINT, not asking the saint to go to God with my request. Jesus Christ is the ONE mediator between God and man. I pray regularly for God to send His Holy Spirit of revival upon the Catholic Church and have it go back to the Bible for Truth. | Return to Tradition |
| 1607 | Bishops and priests need to come to faith. Laypeople don’t believe because the clergy don’t believe. Sorry to be harsh, but that’s my consistent observation. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1608 | Return to the Traditional Latin Mass period, sack the Seminaries, execute the perverts in public. But of course, I know they will not, which is why any one of the recommendations above performed by itself while the rest of the abuse and sin continues as is will not mean anything, in my opinion, simply because the Bishops are not serious about this Eucharistic tragedy, sacrilege or the salvation of souls in the least. | Return to Tradition |
| 1609 | Communion on the tongue at communion rail given by Priest and altar boy assisting using paten to pick particles, those who can kneel should kneel, those who can't kneel should stand | Return to Tradition |
| 1610 | Inform those attending of Peter's chair occupants' abandonment of the Catholic faith beginning with Roncalli, and including Montini, Luciani, Wotyla. Ratzinger, and Bergolio. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1611 | ALL OF THE ABOVE | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1612 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1613 | All of the above AND stop all the socializing in the church! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1614 | All of these. Please get rid of the constant reminders that there are perverts lurking in your ranks, it's horrible and traumatizing. In every church, something is posted about unchecked clergy sexual problems, where to report, reminder that these people are allowed to remain as shepherds, until the problem exposes and bankrupts the diocese. Can't feel comfortable. Ever. Get rid of the sick and depraved pamphlets, wall postings, reminders in the Bishop's corner of bulletins that you, or your kid will be molested by someone, at church, or at school, abused or trafficked. Maybe the person was at church to heal from these things, not have the issue reinforced, out of context. What if the same effort went into teaching people why we need to be there. Encourage traditional catechism, no more environmental worship. (Keep the indoor environment comfortable, use proper heating and air conditioning, because to turn it off, is a reminder that the "environment" is now a priority, instead of helping people be in a peaceful setting for church or adoration. If you have a Latin parish, visit. Very orderly, reverent, military precision, excellence. Petition Rome to allow the pre-55 Holy Week, very educational, designed to explain and convert. No more feminization of church, poor, Protestant or inappropriate music, drives people away. Females at the altar drive away men, boys and vocations, and put all involved into unnecessary situations of temptation. Reminder to all, especially dads with girls, and ladies, on dress, cover up, Vatican standards. More public processions. Restore your Latin parishes, create more, because they are the most fecund. More visibility from bishops to make our positions clear. Strong, forward leadership needed, not just reactionary. Public acts/opportunities for reparation. Masses at abortion clinics/van Mass. Make an impact on your communities, the bishops are mostly invisible, little impression or impact on the church or larger public. Reestablish public Catholic identity | Leadership Reforms, Multiple Recommendations |
| 1615 | Make confession available before Mass | Confession |
| 1616 | Return Alter Rails | Return to Tradition |
| 1617 | Eliminate the Novus ordo mass completely, offer the Tridentine Mass exclusively and return to the Holy Catholic Faith completely without reservations of any kind. | Return to Tradition |
| 1618 | I come from an extremely vibrant parish. Our parish was one of the parishes visited by the Eucharistic Congress on their way to Indiana. We celebrate the Novus Ordo Mass. Our parish holds 1500 parishioners and most Masses are packed on Sunday. Our daily masses are extremely well attended. I attribute that to our 24/7 Adoration Chapel. I feel this survey is conveying that only those who participate in the Latin Mass have a true love of Our Lord in the Eucharist. That is NOT true. Our vibrant Novus Ordo parish is proof of that! | Adoration |
| 1619 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1620 | really, all the above is the recommendation to the Bishops | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1621 | Observe TLM and live the mass | Return to Tradition |
| 1622 | That they act and live showing that He really comes first. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1623 | Allow the TLM in every parish. Invite people to come and they will see the love lavished on Our Lord because He is on the Altar! | Return to Tradition |
| 1624 | All of the above please. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1625 | We find our commonality in the sacrifice of Christ made present in the Mass | Other |
| 1626 | Two of the above catechize, encourage reverence. Latin and TLM is not the answer as it does not guarantee the preceding | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1627 | All of the above. Lack of belief in both priests and people makes me weep. My former parish changed pastor and it went down hill. I was at Mass daily until it got so bad I refused to dishonor My Love Our Lord with attendance. Both bishops and priests are the major blame for lack of belief. Thank you for trying. Sister Marie | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1628 | All of thee above as Listed to improve the understanding of what it means to be part of the Roman (Latin) Rite just like the Eastern Rite. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1629 | Facilitate more Traditional Latin Masses in our diocese! | Return to Tradition |
| 1630 | None of these actually describe why beliefs have changed, this is putting clothes on a pig. When the church confronts the actual issues that have killed belief, then belief in church doctrine will return. Anything else is advancing personal political agenda and aesthetics. This survey does not want to examine actual issues and instead clearly wants the issue to be the NO vs TLM. This leaves the survey flawed and meaningless. The questions are leading and not actually curious about why belief has changed. | Other |
| 1631 | All of the above! Father Donald Galloway gives a great talk on the Eucharis | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1632 | Parish priests need to be less afraid of proclaiming the truth in the face of the lies of the world. When priests show reverence and that Jesus’ Real Presence is there in the Eucharist, they won’t be giving it to public sinners or in people’s hands, or to those who do not show respect. Then will the congregation recognize the Truth. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1633 | Withhold from public officials and eliminate extraordinary ministers | Canon 915, Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 1634 | Teach the people that Christ is God not someone to trifle with | Catechesis |
| 1635 | Teach people to ask God for the gift of faith. | Catechesis |
| 1636 | All of these in combination, as none are being done today. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1637 | all of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1638 | A thorough catechesis of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Without the Mass, there is no Eucharist. | Catechesis |
| 1639 | I don’t believe you can pick one of the above choices only. I believe all are important. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1640 | All the above are necessary. Without understanding what you are receiving what is the point. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1641 | Encourage every single Catholic to preach and proclaim this as part of the Gospel. While the other things are important (particularly kneeling and ad orientem in my opinion), it will only be met with resentment if it is not driven home that this belief is ESSENTIAL and is GOOD NEWS, and is what God wants you to know about. | Return to Tradition |
| 1642 | Return to the Traditional Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 1643 | I didn’t want to choose only one answer. I think answers # 2,3,4, and 5 are good answers too | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1644 | It is so hard to pick just one, but if the Bishops don’t take a stand and let public officials take communion although they reject the teachings makes it hard to believe in the real presence. The weakness of our Bishops and Pope is truly unbearable and unbelievable. | Multiple Recommendations, Leadership Reforms |
| 1645 | All the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1646 | Enforce liturgical reverence and orthodoxy and strict adherence to Sacrosanctum Concilium unilaterally across the country. In a phrase: make liturgy beautiful again | Return to Tradition |
| 1647 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1648 | All of the above are too critically important and all of these MUST be done! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1649 | Catholic education is sadly lacking. Just frequently remind people that they are receiving the body and blood of Jesus Christ. | Catechesis |
| 1650 | Ban the Novus Ordo Mass and reinstate the Latin Mass. | Return to Tradition |
| 1651 | Have priest and everyone else by altar set holy example. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1652 | Total reverence always while in the presence of the tabernacle | Return to Tradition |
| 1653 | Stop the Novus ordo mass and return to tradition | Return to Tradition |
| 1654 | Silence the tongues that wag, particularly clergy, for this is where the fires begin, encouraged by social media admins who are looking to sensationalize and judge by gossip childish peeves. Forgotten is the glory that we are members of a kingdom and not some socialistic construct. Jesus Christ is Lord and King. | Other |
| 1655 | I think catechizing may be the best thing that can be done right now, as long as it is done well and in accord with the church’s teaching. However, I do want to say that in my personal experience (and attested to by a more recent survey), there is not as much of a crisis of belief, but rather I think the way the questions were worded in the Pew Survey caused confusion and a lower number than should’ve been. That being said, increased devotion to the Eucharist is still something that should be strived for, but the worry is more those that don’t come to mass as often (as those who come often by and large believe in the Real Presence. | Catechesis |
| 1656 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1657 | I think all the above are critical. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1658 | Elimination of the Novus Ordo Missae | Return to Tradition |
| 1659 | Not in the hand from priests only. | Return to Tradition |
| 1660 | Definitely kneeling and receiving on the tongue but also not giving to people who openly reject the teachings of the Catholic faith on such topics as abortion and the sanctity of marriage for example. Our shepherds cannot give mixed messaging. The sheep will fail to follow the mixed messaging and be disenfranchised and leave the church because of feeling betrayed. | Leadership Reforms, Return to Tradition |
| 1661 | Catechize the faithful is my first recommendation. However, I feel that some of the listed practices should be included and not separated from catechization, such as encourage greater reverence and adoration. | Catechesis |
| 1662 | Properly catechize PRIESTS. It starts with THEM and goes to the people. Most Clergy in the Novus Ordo are New Age Modernists. (including most Bishops) Reform the clergy and the people will be reformed back to Tradition. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1663 | All of above. Bring back rails & kneelers. Elderly have difficulty getting down & back up on concrete floors. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1664 | ai think the validity of priestly orders is doubtful after VC II and refrain from the sacraments as a doubtful sacrament is to be seen as NO sacrament that is why my answers may seen confusing! | Other |
| 1665 | All of the Above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1666 | Receive only on tongue. | Return to Tradition |
| 1667 | Eliminate extraordinary ministers, put back the altar rail and kneel for Holy Communion and speak about it in the homily, not failing to occasionally mention Eucharistic Miracles. Have beautiful, traditional or old masters music at Communion time. Thank you for asking, Jesus seems to receive so little reverence. Also teach who God is and who we are, so many seem to see God as Almighty, so so Holy etc. time such as Ave Verigum | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1668 | All the above is really important.. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1669 | Effective and on-going catechizing per above but stories of the MANY miracles should be added in as well. Teaching how to develop a fruitful relationship with Jesus...prayer, reading the Scriptures regularly and learning to listen to God speaking with them....etc...etc. | Catechesis |
| 1670 | Remind them | Other |
| 1671 | I believe the bishops are modeling cowardice when they do not denounce well k own Catholics who support abortion and other scandals. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1672 | Help parishioners develop a personal relationship with Christ based on his love for us | Other |
| 1673 | Abandon Vatican II completely and entirely. | Return to Tradition |
| 1674 | Withholding communion from people not worthy. Also explain explaining why communion is not just spiritual or in memory but not in actuality from a Biblical perspective | Leadership Reforms |
| 1675 | Please allow for a kneeler at communion. My knees make receiving communion difficult without it. Also, the Bishop never should have told people NOT to receive on the tongue during covid. I heard him refuse people! | Return to Tradition |
| 1676 | Catechesis on what is truly happening during the consecration ( epiclesis, Christ made present/1st elevation Christ on cross/ 2nd elevation Christ has died/ pall on Chalice-Christ in the tomb/ fraction rite-mingling of the precious body w/precious blood- moment of resurrection/final elevation-behold the lamb of God… Glorified resurrected body of Christ … teach this to the faithful and then the meaning behind the authentic ritual /armed with this knowledge the faithful will flock to Mass | Catechesis |
| 1677 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1678 | Never close Churches or withhold the Eucharist as was done during Covid. That was THE test of our lifetime and we failed. Everything else means nothing when the Real Presence can be withhold for any reason. Martyrdom was completely negated, desecrated, ignored, by withholding the Eucharist, all other considerations are empty if clergy and laity fear public reception of the real presence. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1679 | Personal example by clergy | Leadership Reforms |
| 1680 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1681 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1682 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1683 | I | Other |
| 1684 | The above hit all of the high points, felt to be in need of reverting this problem. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1685 | All of the above (catechize and refuse communion to those who reject Catholic teachings - scandalous) but all. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1686 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1687 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1688 | Education, I will Answer two things | Catechesis |
| 1689 | Calling for a revision of certain rubrics (or even prayers) in the Missal to show greater attention to the sacred or/and have a greater emphasis on Eucharistic theology through the prayers of the Missal | Return to Tradition |
| 1690 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1691 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1692 | Make it unequivocally acceptable to do mass ad orienting, the tabernacle to be place center again to keep focus on Him, put kneelers out so the elderly can receive while kneeling and get rid of extraordinary ministers unless absolutely needed... and quit allowing public figures reception of the Eucharist while they promote sin publicly | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1693 | All are important; cannot single out just one. FYI, we attend a parish where Latin Masses are primary but it also offers a weekly Mass in the German language as well as in English. My husband and I attend the German Mass, as he's a native of that country; otherwise, we'd attend the Latin. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1694 | I agree with all of the above. It was too difficult to choose just 1 | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1695 | All of these suggestions come together when there is a return to Tradition. The celebration of the TLM brings about reverence and people will respond with wanting to know more and participate in Eucharistic events. | Return to Tradition |
| 1696 | All of the above - they all need to happen!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1697 | Allow woman priests, marriage | Other |
| 1698 | Well, reading church history, the lives of the saints, also (may sound silly) but having community (church) gatherings whether it a big dinner or just a social gathering where people can feel a sense of "comm-unity" | Other |
| 1699 | Repeal Traditiones Custodes and Restore the TLM | Return to Tradition |
| 1700 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1701 | Help your flock | Leadership Reforms |
| 1702 | All of the above by reinstating the TLM and doing away with the NO | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1703 | Abrogate the Novus Ordo. | Return to Tradition |
| 1704 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1705 | All of the above. Also, make the TLM the mainstream Mass, get rid of the Novus Ordo | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1706 | Eliminate the Novus Ordo Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 1707 | All of the above apply | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1708 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1709 | This is not a single pronged solution as the attack was not from a single direction. If even #1, 2, and 6 occurred it would still be a huge battle. Just #2 assumes the priests and bishops hold the belief themselves when in all probability many do not. | Multiple Recommendations, Leadership Reforms |
| 1710 | Teach traditional Catholic doctrine & offer Tridentine Latin Mass only. | Return to Tradition |
| 1711 | Fall in love anew with Jesus Christ | Other |
| 1712 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1713 | 1-4 above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1714 | Bring back the communion rails. | Return to Tradition |
| 1715 | Revitalize the Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 1716 | Dress appropriately for Mass | Reverence |
| 1717 | Tradition and reverence - Catholic used to mean something | Return to Tradition |
| 1718 | All of the above. Only the priest who has received Holy Orders should be handling the host. Latin Masses are almost impossible to find. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1719 | All of the above. And also restore the Traditional Latin Mass | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1720 | Repent and sin NO MORE!!!!! | Other |
| 1721 | All the above!!!!!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1722 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1723 | All of the above. There’s no one issue to fix the issue | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1724 | All of the above!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1725 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1726 | All of the above should be done actually. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1727 | Eliminate extraordinary ministers | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 1728 | Hold friendly events that aim to educate on catholic teachings and practices. Provide literature for everyone that enters a Catholic Church on catholic teachings and mass practices. State those intentions publicly, and before mass, (so people will make an effort to learn or re-educate), before attending mass. If you try to educate/redirect during mass, you will drive people away. | Catechesis |
| 1729 | Return to traditional Mass and restore the Church | Return to Tradition |
| 1730 | I think many of the above selections are tied together and therefor are easily accomplished together and not individually. This is particularly pertinent for selections 1, 2, and 3. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1731 | Return to Tradition | Return to Tradition |
| 1732 | Return to the True Mass, reject the Protestant one. Everything else is a band aid on a bullet hole. | Return to Tradition |
| 1733 | Do not shut us off from Christ in the Eucharist (example; Covid) | Leadership Reforms |
| 1734 | The bishops must repent of their heresies, apostasy and above all their cowardly silence in the face of the enemies of the Holy Catholic Church. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1735 | All of the above are crucial. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1736 | Return to the Original Traditional Roman Catholic Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 1737 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1738 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1739 | Bring back the altar rails. | Return to Tradition |
| 1740 | All of above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1741 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1742 | Return to Traditional Latin Rite and all of these will be accomplished | Return to Tradition |
| 1743 | ALL OF THE ABOVE | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1744 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1745 | Increase Extraordinary Ministers | Other |
| 1746 | ALL OF THE ABOVE | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1747 | If we did the 2nd one (catechize) there would not be a need for all the other options... | Catechesis |
| 1748 | Receiving on the tongue while kneeling and thanksgiving, and also to ALL children in CCD classes or schools, along with promoting Eucharistic miracles | Return to Tradition |
| 1749 | Eucharistic miracles are absolute proof of the real presence | Catechesis |
| 1750 | All the above are critically important | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1751 | Inspire in your clergy and laity devotion. Be witness of unity for your priests...stop giving priests such freedom and little discipline...support your priests, be an active and empathetic listener to priest and laity. Create (and this may need to be visited with Canon lawyers) accountability for priests. It is not healthy for anyone to live a life not accountable to anyone. Priests need to be encouraged, supported ...and support is not just bravo, support is also gentle correction, guidance, etc. I live praying for vocations and supporting both laity and priests and deacons. I have educated all in greater and lesser degree. My heart really goes out to priests...it is not healthy never to be requir3d to go to things, allowing "lone rangers" and no sort of follow up regarding what priest do and do not do in their parishes. It has always been said a priest (and now permeant deacons) can work as hard as they want and live as selflessly as they want or converser sly as little as they want and as selfishly as they desire. That is not a healthy way of life. That is not assisting people to develop and grow in any of the 4 areas necessary in human formation. This os not a problem in only the Diocese of Fall River, I have seen it in several places. I have a brother and many many men who are priests and I have worked with and for many priests, we are not serving them well by giving them so little support, guidance, ongoing formation, constructive criticism, evaluations. None of this is in place for priests. It is detrimental to their priestly life. We owe them more than our current support. I believe in our priests very much. I do not believe in the current structure of how they can l8ve their priesthood and pastoral duties. I am indebt3d to the priests and Bishops who have helped my own spiritual growth and formation. I have jad the formation of then Bishop Sean O'Malley who trusted me but also respected me enough to mentor and guide me. I would say this of several other priest with whom I have had the privilege of working with. Our priests donalso need the respect of guidance, ongoing formation, and some accountability. Accountability is not a bad word. Thank you for this survey. And thank you for all that you will do to follow the Holy Spirit alive and well in our Church. Sincerely Lisa M. Gulino | Leadership Reforms |
| 1752 | All of above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1753 | Receiving the Eucharist on the tongue (standing or kneeling) with a paten held under the chin to make sure no particles are dropped/ emphasizing the true presence in every crumb. | Return to Tradition |
| 1754 | too many choices because more than one is affecting choices, as all selections are not equal. poor survey. is not balanced | Other |
| 1755 | Really all of the above except the last, they are a package | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1756 | Reduce the Novus ordo and increase the Latin mass in areas where there is none. | Return to Tradition |
| 1757 | Encourage the Traditional Latin Mass instead of trying to eliminate it! All aspects of the TLM encourage belief in the Real Presence! | Return to Tradition |
| 1758 | there needs to be quite time after receiving Holy communion. People who openly reject Catholic teaching should not receive Holy Communion I go to confession several times a year but not monthly | Reverence |
| 1759 | Atone for the sin of worshiping the fake virus. | Other |
| 1760 | communion only on tongue, only from the priest. need both Not just one | Return to Tradition |
| 1761 | Exclusive Traditional Latin Mass and all it's glory! | Return to Tradition |
| 1762 | all of them mentioned should be a strong recommendation. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1763 | DRESS RESPECTFULLY - NOT COMING TO CHURCH HALF NUDE | Reverence |
| 1764 | All of the choices are most important from the Bishops. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1765 | Each one of these is extremely important | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1766 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1767 | Eliminate the use of Extraordinary ministers of the holy Eucharist during ordinary circumstances (i.e. Mass). | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 1768 | They are all important. They each would increase our reverence | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1769 | Offer the Holy Mass Ad Orientem | Return to Tradition |
| 1770 | Eliminate clericalism. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1771 | Fully employ the Traditional Liturgy/Rite (TLM). Protect the Deposit Of Faith. | Return to Tradition |
| 1772 | Each parish should be holding classes outside of mass explaining how the mass explicitly lives Jesus’ words. Where did he state “take this bread and eat of it…why did he say this, why has it carried on throughout the ages, how shall we live once the Precious Body and Blood is in our bodies. | Catechesis |
| 1773 | Catechize the faithful on how sin damages our relationship with God and the need to celebrate the Sacrament of Penance when one is in the state of serious sin. Catechize people about sacrilege. | Catechesis |
| 1774 | Stop teaching the "permitted" way to receive and teach the "right" way that has never been changed! | Return to Tradition |
| 1775 | All of the above recommendations | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1776 | Go back to the Roman Rite | Return to Tradition |
| 1777 | All of the above, please!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1778 | Reverence starts with the priests. Too many adlibbing. Treating the mass like a communal gathering like the Protestants. Ugly churches. Closing down churches instead of addressing the cause of low attendance. Bring back altar rails. We need sermons that catechize. Too many are peace and justice pablum | Leadership Reforms, Return to Tradition |
| 1779 | Pray the rosary with the faithful! | Prayer |
| 1780 | All of the above - proper teaching should be followed by the rest of these actions, though the priests need to lead these actions by example | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1781 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1782 | I agree w all these choices but only one #1 | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1783 | Give ongoing formation to current priests, helping them to understand their own special purpose in the Economy of Grace. Teach them to develop a profound love for Christ in the Eucharist and how all of these other things (liturgy, communion on the tongue, Eucharistic processions, etc.) all flow from that. We need holy priests, an army of them! | Return to Tradition |
| 1784 | So many of these are crucial. Communion rails are needed, receive on the tongue, teach Transubstantion to the congregation, encourage REVERENCE. Events not so important. | Multiple Recommendations, Return to Tradition |
| 1785 | Encourage receiving Eucharist on the tongue, keeling or standing | Return to Tradition |
| 1786 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1787 | Please lead us and show us the reverence that is due to Our Lord by your example | Leadership Reforms |
| 1788 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1789 | Keep and promote the TLM Mass above all, and ALL of the ABOVE | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1790 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1791 | all of the above - doing these might lead to less protestantization and return to the Catholic Faith | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1792 | all of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1793 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1794 | All of the above, PLEASE! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1795 | Chant and sacred music, and ad orientem | Return to Tradition |
| 1796 | Go back to tradition where this has not been an issue. | Return to Tradition |
| 1797 | Put back the altar rails | Return to Tradition |
| 1798 | Make the Altar sacred again. Quit allowing people dressed like bums to be Eucharistic ministers and lectors | Return to Tradition |
| 1799 | All the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1800 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1801 | Better catechism, follow Canon (why is N Pelosi and J Biden receiving communion when they support abortion), reflect Reverence better | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1802 | All of these are GREAT suggestions & many are happening at my parish already, but not at parishes I visit. I would say that receiving on the tongue while kneeling at the communion rail & eliminating EMEs would be a great place to start! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1803 | Again, we are too worried about keeping older traditions alive than trying to PIVOT of how to best connect with our community for higher engagement. | Other |
| 1804 | Re: Question 11. Pre-COVID, I attended Mass/Communion/Eucharistic Adoration at least weekly. But then guidelines changed to NO guidelines during COVID, it seemed everything was arbitrary and left to the sole discretion of the Episcopacy (and no two seemed to agree). | Leadership Reforms |
| 1805 | Act on ALL abuses to the Mass. Use your authority to properly govern the Church. Stop placating and making deals with the culture. Reject modernism. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1806 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1807 | All of these. I don’t know which is to be first. We need courage in the leadership of the church to just change one of these at a time. And keep moving forward to greater reverence. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1808 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1809 | Simply return to the use of the Latin Mass and the traditions that surround it. That pretty much covers your list! | Return to Tradition |
| 1810 | Increase Traditional Latin Mass time offerings | Return to Tradition |
| 1811 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1812 | Encourage the practice of receiving the Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling from a priest or deacon. | Return to Tradition |
| 1813 | I would give all if these number 1 besides increase Eucharistic events | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1814 | For the bishops to improve their OWN belief in the Real Presence. They, themselves, with ALL their, "staff" SHOULD do a DAILY Eucharistic Adoration; wish I could!!! | Adoration |
| 1815 | restore the Traditional Latin Mass as the only form of worship | Return to Tradition |
| 1816 | Clergy set example on all of above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1817 | Make the MASS holy again | Return to Tradition |
| 1818 | ALL of these need to be done simultaneously. You are asking the wrong question. It's like saying what makes your house the most clean? 1. dish 2. laundry or 3. bathrooms? And the answer is all of them make the house clean. Stop looking for a quick fix one thing solution. Do them all because it's the right thing to do. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1819 | #1, except completely ban communion on the hand under pain of excommunication | Return to Tradition |
| 1820 | However, there is not one answer in my opinion | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1821 | No idea | Other |
| 1822 | Bring back communion rails or at the very least kneelers for reception of communion, limit reception to on the tongue and kneeling if one is able to kneel, and eliminate Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion. Making all of these necessary changes with much catechesis at the parish level to explain why these changes more adequately reflect the reverence and honor that is due to Jesus Who is Present in the Most Blessed Sacrament. | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1823 | Be welcoming. | Other |
| 1824 | Share by example their personal love and reverence for the Eucharistic Lord. | Personal Witness |
| 1825 | Improved guidance from the clergy, i.e. development of your prayer life, functions of clergy - educate, govern and sanctify the laity, & development of your conscience | Leadership Reforms |
| 1826 | Abandon all Vatican II teachings and precepts. Return to the Faith. | Return to Tradition |
| 1827 | Return fully to tradition and offer the Latin Mass only | Return to Tradition |
| 1828 | In order to effect change the bishops must mitigate the necessity of laity acceptance. All of these recommendations require a change of heart in order to improve people's belief in the real presence with the exception of withholding Holy Communion from obstinate public officials and eliminating extraordinary ministers. Those two actions on the part of the bishops would publicly, definitively and in the strongest terms demonstrate to the laity Her belief in the Real Presence. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1829 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1830 | Encourage a personal relationship with Christ | Other |
| 1831 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1832 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1833 | Emphasize the traditional view of Holy Communion as such an important moment that it should be done only rarely, not just because we happen to be attending Mass that day. | Return to Tradition |
| 1834 | Catechesis of adults and proper disposition for reception of the Eucharist including what constitutes mortal sin and reception in the state of mortal sin | Catechesis |
| 1835 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1836 | there is no one. education, reverence, Adoration have to go together with the priest being holy himself. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1837 | Learn the Traditional Mass. | Return to Tradition |
| 1838 | Bring back the TLM... It is a complete expression of our Faith and has all the elements necessary for belief in the True Presence. | Return to Tradition |
| 1839 | All options are included in the second option, proper catechesis. It therefore seems a false choice to me, except that I would choose the second choice, understanding that it includes all the others. That said, if the CLERGY are not first and simultaneously catechized, the efforts expended on instructing the laity will be partially, if not largely, undone by clergy saying , “Oh no, we’ve stopped believing that way / doing things that way / etc.,” as continues to occur daily when properly catechized laity suggest more reverent behaviors in their parishes. | Multiple Recommendations, Catechesis |
| 1840 | become true Christians, followers of Jesus, not denominational. Read the last chapter of Benedict xvi, introduction to Christianity | Other |
| 1841 | Stop lying to the laity. The Eucharistic Conference had a nun doing hypnosis. And she was crying in her selfish ecstasy. It was creepy. Everyone loves the celebrity priest from Hallow and the hired celebrities that have played Jesus. These are people and not saints. I was so shocked and saddened by the “revival” that ended the conference. I couldn’t look at it. The presenters are smug. There was no reverence. Nuns were dancing. How could people believe in the Real Presence from the show? It was like a mental health conference. Help us God. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1842 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1843 | All of the above!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1844 | Teach the sanctity of the Eucharist and how parishioners can prepare themselves to receive | Catechesis |
| 1845 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1846 | Read more from the Bible and discuss it in the homily’s. I don’t identify as a Catholic and have been struggling with this for the last several years, ow identify as a Christian. Am currently looking for a non- denomination church in my area. Since COVID my eyes have been opened not only to the corruption in our church as well as our m, and Inam sick and tired of them asking for money for all of these funds which go to pay off all of these legal bills for these dang gay priests. I have stopped my contributions and am now giving to other charitable organizations. The Catholic Church has been lying to us for CENTURIES and people are WAKING UP | Catechesis |
| 1847 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1848 | All of the above. Thank you | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1849 | ALL of these answers ARE Important!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1850 | Quit driving people nuts with stupid questions. A real Catholic can’t be fooled | Other |
| 1851 | Procedure when Holy Eucharist is dropped | Other |
| 1852 | Educate the laity on Eucharistic Miracles | Catechesis |
| 1853 | definitely returning altar rails | Return to Tradition |
| 1854 | Return to the traditional sacraments and correct responses from the laity | Return to Tradition |
| 1855 | Actually, all of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1856 | From the list above, there is NO #1 recommendation, all choices above are imperative to improving the belief in the Real Presence!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1857 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1858 | Emphasize Christ presence but drop the turning to flesh and blood. | Catechesis |
| 1859 | Educate and encourage the faithful to developed their relationship with Jesus, Father God and the Virgin Mother. | Catechesis |
| 1860 | ALL THE ABOVE !!! Please !!! Education very important. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1861 | More traditional Latin masses | Return to Tradition |
| 1862 | All The Above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1863 | Most of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1864 | Eliminate lay ministers, ensure kneeling and on the tongue | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1865 | Eliminate Novus Ordo Mass and return to the Traditional Catholic Pre Vatican Church | Return to Tradition |
| 1866 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1867 | ALL OF THE ABOVE | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1868 | Replace the Novus ordo with the Traditional Latin Mass | Return to Tradition |
| 1869 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1870 | put altar rails back up; receive on tongue and on knees; refuse Eucharist to pro-abortion politicians | Return to Tradition |
| 1871 | Discontinue Novus Ordo, catechize and return to Tridentine Latin Mass for all | Return to Tradition |
| 1872 | Lift all restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass. Make it available and easy to access throughout the diocese. Returning to tradition is the solution | Return to Tradition |
| 1873 | All of the above are needed, the one item not listed is, eliminating priests from preaching and proselytizing Marxism. I've gone toe to toe with multiple priests that believe the Marxism in the "goal of every good Catholic." | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1874 | All of the above-with the Latin Mass to be offered and made available at more and more Catholic parishes throughout the country. The Latin Mass is our history, our inheritance, our birthright, and our treasure and it must not be hidden from us or denied to us. Thank you. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1875 | Too many don’t even know the Covenant story, and so, they don’t know why the Eucharist is important. | Catechesis |
| 1876 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1877 | Remove Bergoglio and all unfaithful or cowardly bishops | Leadership Reforms |
| 1878 | We already have eliminated EOEM | Limit Extraordinary Ministers |
| 1879 | I would like to kneel for Holy Communion, but at my age, I need to push off on something to stand up. Need a "kneeler" like used for the wedding couple. | Return to Tradition |
| 1880 | politics should not interfere with religion Abortion Issue is a legal matter and communion should not be withheld with leaders that are catholic | Other |
| 1881 | All the above are important. In my parish all of the above are done. Only priests give Holy communion. We have no deacons - no deacon wants to serve at my Atlanta Archdiocesan parish. Atlanta is VERY liberal but, miraculously we have TLM every Sunday and Holy Day of obligation and both of our priests do the TLM. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1882 | All of the above !!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1883 | Go back to the traditional Catholic Church. | Return to Tradition |
| 1884 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1885 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1886 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1887 | all of the above except elimination of EM HC. A refresher of Catholic Catechism from the pulpit from time to time. So many have not a clue! Why do most people go to communion and only a few don't because absence of state of grace and need for confession | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1888 | Teach and give out small booklets on the Eucharistic miracles no one knows about. Also, you didn't allow me to explain, I cannot go to mass as I am disabled, housebound with no car, money or any living family or friends left. I do attend mass and Eucharistic devotions all the time thru YouTube tv. I love my Lord and Savior. | Catechesis |
| 1889 | Every single one of the above! If I can be a lay person and distribute HC then why be a priest? Eliminate lay EM, SHOW THE DEFERWNCE TO THE BS forbid those who don't follow church teaching be properly admonished. EVERY ONE. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1890 | Catechize on Eucharistic miracles and prefigurements of the Eucharist in scripture, as well as the Bread of Life discourse | Catechesis |
| 1891 | Teaching will tell them the truth, showing respect for the Eucharist will make them believe it. All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1892 | Restore the full total complete canonical blessing on the SSPX Priestly Fraternity and restore the full blessing on the Traditional Sacred Original Latin Rite Mass. abolish the horrific music currently popular in Mass. Devote dedicated parishes in every diocese and archdiocese to Traditional Latin Sacraments and observance. | Return to Tradition |
| 1893 | ALL OF THE ABOVE | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1894 | Make the Traditional Latin Mass more accessible | Return to Tradition |
| 1895 | Ignore Traditionis Custodes. For starters. | Return to Tradition |
| 1896 | No real opinion. | Other |
| 1897 | Openly hold and defend the Truths of our Faith! Faith comes first. | Leadership Reforms |
| 1898 | Education. Help them by showing them the stories of how priests have seen Jesus's face in the host at adoration; blood on the host, many wonderful stories to show and talk about from the pulpit. Seeing is believing. | Catechesis |
| 1899 | I believe all of these are necessary but receiving communion on the tongue while kneeling is most important | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1900 | All of the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1901 | ALL OF THE ABOVE | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1902 | All the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1903 | All of the above!!!!! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1904 | Being back the altar rails for Holy Communion on the tongue given by the priest. | Return to Tradition |
| 1905 | Use byzantine style of divine liturgy | Return to Tradition |
| 1906 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1907 | More traditional liturgy | Return to Tradition |
| 1908 | Eucharistic adoration for all bishops priests laity. Let Jesus fix this mess by convicting hearts put in front of him in silence. Twenty years of Eucharistic adoration is a good way to transform any person, Diocese or entire church. | Adoration |
| 1909 | If possible, all of the choices here. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1910 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1911 | Using hope, education to lay people, more children education and activities, youth and adult retreats, more activities to grow close to Jesus as the Protestants do, explanation on our faith and the importance of the Eucharist to keep our young people engaged. | Catechesis |
| 1912 | All the above AND return to the True Mass of all time. The Roman Rite. The Novus Ordo is not Catholic. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1913 | I wish that the altar and communion rails were still there. These changes have, in my opinion have brought about less respect and loss of Catholics. | Return to Tradition |
| 1914 | Receive on the tongue and eliminate extraordinary ministers of holy communion | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1915 | Remove indult for receiving Communion in the hand, install altar rails, and EMHCs only for homebound in areas where a priest can’t get to all homes realistically | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1916 | All the above and especially #1,3 and all the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1917 | All of the above, after Consecrating Russia to the Immaculate Heart exclusively by the pope in union with all the bishops AS OUR LADY ASKED. JUST DO IT. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1918 | Actually All of them Apply, We've all been Poorly Catechized | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1919 | All the above. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1920 | All of the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1921 | All important, but the 3rd, 4th, and 5th option are the most | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1922 | More adoration and no extraordinary ministers of communion | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Adoration |
| 1923 | Recommend Cursillo, CRHP, or other encounters that make God a 'real presence.'. | Catechesis |
| 1924 | It's hard to pick just one. I broke it down to top 3 in this order, First one, Last one, then forth one. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1925 | Make the mass shorter. Focus on the important elements, do not elongate the mass for the sake of just spending more time there. Seems like the time is more important than the form or the substance. And I would think that prevents people from going to mass more often...impossible to go to mass on a day-to-day basis. Make mass more reachable, more accessible. | Other |
| 1926 | Establish perpetual adoration at EVERY parish - If every priest made this their #1 priority we would probably have a lot more priests. Priests just need to tell people to go spend time with Jesus | Adoration |
| 1927 | Cc | Other |
| 1928 | I'm | Other |
| 1929 | All you listed are important but public people e.g.. Biden s/b excommunicated not just banned from receiving. The offense and scandal of their being no public consequences to their behavior cannot be measured. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1930 | TALK ABOUT CONFESSION | Confession |
| 1931 | We believe in GOD, do they act like we have the best religion in the world.. No. Bishops should mandate priests teach RCIA, Bishops should FIX church parking, never any... I left one church because they were having mass in a gymnasium.. while the last 5 years they were fundraising.. I left there.. | Catechesis, Personal Witness |
| 1932 | Catechize the faithful at all ages | Catechesis |
| 1933 | Cannot decide | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1934 | Teach people using scripture and modern-day miracles. Then, hold events like adoration or movies that explain the reasons to believe. Arm the faithful. Teach apologetics. | Catechesis |
| 1935 | ALL of the above! but to name just one - insisting on Reverence and restoring a sense of the Sacred at Mass & in the presence of Jesus in the tabernacle. To follow up on a previous question - we are only recently TLM exclusively so the 'trauma' of bad liturgies is still fresh on our minds, and a major reason for our transition. | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1936 | Receive the Eucharist from a priest while kneeling at a communion rail. Sadly, many churches no longer have them. | Return to Tradition |
| 1937 | get rid of Vatican II and all modernist clergy | Return to Tradition |
| 1938 | Get rid of lay ministers. Forbid contemporary music. Use Latin as is intended. No English. Reference douay-rheims bible | Limit Extraordinary Ministers, Return to Tradition |
| 1939 | All the above | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1940 | I believe it starts with Catechizing the faithful, so they know why, but it goes hand in hand with encouraging reverence and receiving on the tongue/kneeling and eliminating Eucharist ministers. | Catechesis, Return to Tradition |
| 1941 | Develop a deep prayer life | Prayer |
| 1942 | if priests don't believe-how can we expect people to believe | Personal Witness |
| 1943 | All of the above! | Multiple Recommendations |
| 1944 | Return to the 1962 Missale Romanum, or perish! | Return to Tradition |