There is an interesting article that appears in today's National Post (a Canadian national newspaper): 'Renovated' Catholicism attracts few tenants which details a look at a schismatic dissenter (progressivist) group, as well as a famed dissenting paper in Canada, "the Catholic New Times".
The basic just of the piece is this: watering down the teaching and discipline of the Church does not, as is often thrown out there, result in an influx of people.