Then  the powers-that-be should let remarried Catholics receive communion, perform funerals for LGBT people who married their partners, open the Church to women as humans capable of leadership, and get off it about sex and contraceptives.  There are a few other things that could make a difference - one is accountability of bishops to the Pope and to the faithful in the diocese.  Another would be true synodality that includes the faithful in the management and oversight of parishes and in discussions about the development of doctrine.  

The hierarchical/patriarchal church is full of those who consider  themselves "elite" and they run the church out of the elitism they claim.