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The cure is not just the Mass and Rosary

Never said they were alone.

That's Christian Classics, by the way. Real books by REAL CHRISTIANS. There is no one "cure" for the religious problems of modern Americans and the neo-modernist church in contemporary America. Every parish will ALWAYS have PROBLEMS - serious sinners, alcoholics, domestic abuse, the unemployed, the mentally ill, people who cannot afford to pay bills, etc.

It's absurd in the extreme to have any priest running around keeping a tab on each parishioner or each family as if he were a waiter at a restaraunt or a bar tender at a bar. The last thing the church needs is obsessive-compulsive anal-retentive kook types handing out demerits to families. Screwball priests and nuns do not improve the situation. They are a disgrace to the church. And are one of the primary causes of people leaving the church or staying away.

Special education issues for truly dysfunctional students cannot be addressed by most parish schools given the financial realities. If Catholic schools are expected to handle ALL psychiatric and criminological cases, they deserve their fair share of tax dollars for education. That won't happen because of the political pressure from anti-Catholic organizations on the Church-State mythology issues.

The TRUE reason for the financial problems facing the church has to do with the refusal of bishops (and priests) to deal with the infiltration of the church by predatory homosexuals. Teaching priests HOW to say Mass correctly, eliminating clergy with squeaky whiny voices and bad music ministries, and putting a stop to wreckovation of churches would go a long way to increasing Mass attendance. Blaming the laity - already stressed by a post-Christian society with an absurdly inflated economy deliberately designed to promote population control - does not reflect well on the priestly training served up by the neo-modernist mafia in the USCCB and the homosexual-dominated seminaries.

There are MUCH better ways to improve parish revenue and parish life without resorting to Gestapo tactics.

Real books by REAL CHRISTIANS.

Nothing I said addressed this point, there are a lot of authors writing good CCD texts.

neo-modernist church in contemporary America.

Neomodernist is usually a code word for not Tridentine? There are a lot of Priest and authors that are Catholic, that practice the normative Mass and Rites of the Church. Claiming that the prescription that Rome wrote for the Church leads to perdition is as bad as saying the Mass practiced as spelled out in the current GIRM is invalid.

Special education issues for truly dysfunctional students cannot be addressed by most parish schools given the financial realities.

Not what I would think, but, the Church Schools now cherry pick. I know a long list of kids who were asked to not return for discipline, under the guise of special needs. Kids who were low achievers, that is, not above average, were asked not to return. Some kids were labeled ADD and told to get ritalin or leave. Should a Nun be cherry picking kids to make room for non-Catholic students who can boost test scores?

I attack the basis for Catholic education today, which in many schools isn't about a charitable endeavor, it is about privilege and money. If I wanted to give underprivileged Catholic kids a boost, I should pay someone to go and volunteer at a secular school.

Even at that how about the large number of orthodox Catholics who home school. Nothing bad about home schooling, but it makes you wonder why doesn't diocesan educators provide more to those kids.

does not reflect well on the priestly training served up by the neo-modernist mafia in the USCCB and the homosexual-dominated seminaries.

Well I guess it is where you put your eyes. I don't see that as being a problem as it once was, after the abuse issues, things were changed fundamentally, and attention was paid to seminaries. Many new seminarians come our much better equipped and vetted then they did in the early 80s.