Bishop Robert Barron explained, and Fr. Z. followed up with extended commentary, agreeing with a need for action, but issuing his own call.
[The] Bishop doesn’t seem to mean action to change the way we celebrate the Eucharist, the way we see the Eucharist, the way we sing to and about the Eucharist, the way we literally handle the Eucharist. That is: liturgical worship, how we celebrate Holy Mass. [Emphasis added]
He wants a “call to action”? Here’s a call to action!
- STOP COMMUNION IN THE HAND!
- Foster kneeling for Communion put in Communion rails.
- Get serious about music.
- Phase out unnecessary lay ministers of Communion.
- Clear the sanctuary of everything that distracts.
- Celebrate ad orientem.
- And the scariest of all … implement generously Summorum Pontificum!
Every one of those will require, yes, catechesis. Lots of sound catechesis and patience.
Patience and more patience.
But “it’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.”
A concrete call that involves particulars, without which one blows smoke.
From Fr. Z’s blog.
Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground 
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Not an uncertain trumpet from Fr. Z.
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