Insipid "inoffensive" sermons, loud "active participation" in the mass, that effeminacy drove the men away from the mass. That is why less than 4% of the French go to mass, and of that percentage the vast majority are old women. No real man wants to go hear what they consider to be an inept man give a lecture (a sermon), nor to hear women screaming in their ears to where they can't even think. Real men come to hear sermons about how to live the faith like saints.