I think that churches could play a more vital, personal role in people's lives.  I have seen it happen.  I think that alone would bring in more people, more parishioners, and more converts.  I have seen it.  Rather than so much emphasis being placed on the message, demonstrate it, by being more people-centred. This would not stray from the gospel:  Love thy neighbour as thyself.  That does not mean - keep  preaching at him.

The medium is the message, as Marshall McLewen put it.

  Simple, social, welcoming, inclusive gatherings in churches, for anybody, would change the way churches are being viewed these days.  Make it Alle Menchen, as Beethoven put it in his 9th Symphony - "All mankind."  Then we would have more  "Joy to the world, the Lord has come, "  also from the 9th Symphony.

There is so much emphasis, and responsibility put onto the priest.  Yet there is so much potential energy and love that parishioners could spread out, and also to each other.     Nanaimo, B. C. Canada.