The solutions have long been there for the bishops, but sadly, they refuse to see.


Welcome back all those priests who left the ministry to marry, but still long to serve.  


Allow those priests who wish, to marry.


Open the priesthood up to the 50% of the population the church today rejects for this position.


See the laity as an equal to the clergy, and treat them accordingly.


And above all: learn how to listen and meet people where they are, not demand that the laity live up to sterile standards that haven't made sense since the Middle Ages.  Let the lived spirituality of the laity teach the clergy.