Well....sort of...sometimes, depends on the year. It's not a strong demographic, considering the traditional Catholic pro-life position.
I cant speak for the knuckleheads.
Nor should you have to. The clergy seems to be willing participants in letting the Church fall. (See "Pope" Francis) The faithful need to take back the Church, not abandon it.
You should see all the empty churches and cathedrals up here, many going to different uses. They even tore down a fantastically beautiful Gothic Cathedral, with the arches and spires....
Unreplaceable....gone....devastating.
You make it sound like it's monolithic. It isn't!
In fact, we just might be starting a modern schism inside the Church that could be as significant as the 95 Theses in the 1500s. Many are asking that Pope Benedict come back, and his leaving wasn't proper.
According to the latest survey, New England has the LEAST amount of Church-going Christians in the country:
Quote: Mississippi, Alabama and other Southern states are among the most highly religious states in the nation, while New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine in New England are among the least devout, according to some of the key measures used to determine levels of religiosity in the Pew Research Centers most recent Religious Landscape Study.