As a former altar boy for the Catholic mass in the 1950's, very few people at mass knew or understood the mass.  As a medical student in the 1960's, one of my devout catholic physician mentors once mentioned that he hated the English mass because it seemed too noisy to listen to everything.  He just wanted to go back the way it used to be when he could sit or kneel in a pew near the back and relax for the week.  He liked it better not understanding anything that was said.  He felt it was his hour of meditation.  Of course, he was not all wrong.  Perhaps we could all stand a mass that is much shorter and with a full hour of silent meditation before or after communion.  No Bishops letters especially about voting for certain policies or committing a mortal sin because the magical magisterium knows The Truth.  We might pay attention to the Buddhists ideas a little more...