[vox_freedom]

I'll let you do your own stipulated research, but below is an excellent sourcebook. I do disagree with you, however, if you truly believe that Catholic Church membership isn't tied to belief in the Real Presence and Mass attendance and vocations. You can't become Roman Catholic without those elements, among others...

From: Mershon article from Renew America

It is not well-publicized, but Kenneth Jones has written a book entitled: Index of Leading Catholic Indicators: The Church since Vatican II. In it, Mr. Jones emotionlessly statistically documents the precipitous decline of numbers of vocations to the priesthood, numbers of priests, numbers of Catholic schools, numbers of conversions, numbers of Catholics attending Catholic schools, numbers of baptisms, numbers of marriages in the Church, numbers of religious vocations in the U.S. prior to, and after, the Second Vatican Council — an objective and sobering, and quite frankly, depressing overview of the "signs of the times" for the U.S. Church. The same decline can be seen across Western Europe as well, but at a more alarming rate.
But one of our leading U.S. Bishops calls these sobering results regarding the legacy of the Second Vatican Council as "mixed." Pardon me for by brashness and boldness, but what would be considered a cataclysmal collapse?

[Wonder Warthog]

"I do disagree with you, however, if you truly believe that Catholic Church membership isn't tied to belief in the Real Presence and Mass attendance and vocations. You can't become Roman Catholic without those elements, among others..."

Still begging the question. What I disagree with is that any of those things are in any fashion tied to the language used in the Mass. Re-institute the Tridentine mass throughout the world tomorrow, and NONE of the problems will go away.