If the Catholic Church ran itself like a religion instead of a humanist whatever-feels-right social club (like the other Protestant sects), we'd see more men joining the priesthood and more people going to mass, all derivative of having an understanding of what the religion is actually about.  I've three kids who have attended Catholic religious "education" classes who know virtually nothing about Catholicism.  If they were boys, they'd have no inclination to be a priest, as they have no idea what a priest is or what one stands for. 

I was driving my kids to mass this past Good Friday and asked them what Good Friday was.  Crickets.

As one who attended catechism classes during the seventies, I witnessed first-hand the transformation of Catholic education from religious understanding to social pacifism.  The Greatest Story Ever Told is not being told any longer.