Hi! Yes, it is a there are a lot of seniors here where I live, and they are transplants. But the transplants from Mexico, in their new neighborhoods, they do not take up their religion again, or as I am positing, they were not faithful people to begin with. You don’t see a lot of senior Mexican women in those churches either. Sometimes it is just church staff and people who hold positions of responsibility in the church who go to morning Mass.
The Mexican homes I have visited here, are full of Catholic images, but they are not devote people. (And I am saying this as a person, who should be and wants to be more devout.) It seems to be a traditional way of decorating, or as I suspect, part of a superstitious-leaning.
But my oh, my, does our bishop try to curry-favor the Mexican population with it’s public sympathy for illegal alien migration. Which is kind of strange because the demographics in the church do not warrant this.
I visited one church that was very well attended (by English speaking people), and they have a separate Spanish Mass. It also organizes the “social welfare” cause of bringing attention to the “harsh” treatment of illegals. They had a garden display for the illegals that died in the desert trying to come here. But no symbolic cemetery for the little ones that were killed in utero.
Not surprised that there are a lot of retired folks. It is the warm, dry desert climate that is attractive.