Can this "Protestant" article apply to Catholic parishes as well?

[Fraevo63]

https://relearnchurch.org/4-biblical-elements-missing-from-the-modern-church-service/

 

[Genesis315]

Only in the broadest sense. Yes, we should not water down the Gospel, we should choose virtuous leaders, and discipline is important. In substance, all these things are already in the Catholic Church–whatever is lacking is due to human weakness, not bad principle or organization.

As for the meetings, he quotes 1 Cor. 14, which only describes a certain informal kind of meeting which were getting out of hand, and St. Paul is putting some limits and rules for them. However, in 1 Cor. 11:23-34, St. Paul describes the Mass (which this author ignores) as a kind of meeting which has a particular order, and in the last verse St. Paul says he will provide it. The Church can–and always has–set an ordered worship service centered around the Eucharistic sacrifice. Of course, other meetings are fine, they just shouldn’t get out of hand–that is what the passage in 1 Cor. 14:26-33 is all about.

In any event, this guy seems well meaning, but he’s just another non-Catholic trying to reinvent the wheel when we’re driving by in the whole car.

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[DebCWil]

One Baptist who used to preach against the Catholic Church now witnesses that what brought him into the Catholic Church is the Mass. While he had been used to services that preached about the Bible, and Scripture, the Catholic Church actually proclaims Christ at every Mass.
No this article does not apply. We have the Sacraments regardless of the holiness of any minister of the Gospel. We have the Liturgy of Word and Sacrament. We receive the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ. The responsibility of how fruitful our worship is to be has always been on the individual. The final words of the Mass call us to service. We are called to live the Faith, not to simply be hearers of the Word.
There are those who would claim the Church is different as a result of Vatican II. They are not paying attention. It is the same holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church that it has always been. We do not stay on the mountain, but take our faith into the cities and villages where we live, where we are seen by those who do not yet know Christ in the same way that we have been blessed to receive Him.

 

[ATraveller]

It’s a very long article so I didn’t skim the entire thing.
But I will mention megachurches and churches that use gimmicks lose their members easily. People get bored or they eventually find more substance in less gimmicky churches. Some are gimmicky but can retain member. Why? There’s substance. They actually preach the Gospel not act like feel-good motivational seminars.
We know from a survey the majority of Protestants choose churches based on what the churches actually believe. The style of worship is irrelevant. It’s theology that matters.