[NYer]

Here in the northeast, this analysis matches with my observations. Ping!

[Servant of the Cross]

Here in the Midwest, while there may be some ‘pockets’ with similar experiences to the Northeast, there seem to be more areas which resemble the South and the West. IMHO.

[Oratam]

Matches mine, too. I was telling my brother that it appears the chief responsibility of Egan and now Dolan is managing the decline. How brief the rise and fall of American Catholicism-one hundred fifty years.

Irish and German immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century, followed by the Italians, the Poles and others later, built urban parishes by the sweat of their brows only to abandon them a century later. At least there was a post-war explosion of suburban parishes and paraochial schools. Interestingly, these were built to handle the big families that within a generation would be reduced to three or fewer children.

Now, Syracuse hands a church built by German immigrants over to the Mohammedans. It appears some 'immigrants' are more equal than others.