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***What is your source for these claims?***

My dear MrLeRoy, I am as ancient as the pyramids. LOL! I WAS THERE. I saw it first hand. I experienced it. I raised kids starting in the fifties.

Shortly after WWII, the Bishop purchased land in the suburbs. People thought he was crazy. "What do we need land way out there for?" was the common refraiin. That land was what became MY parish. The Bishop was far sighted. But not far sighted enough. My kids were in classes with 60+ students in the first grade. There was no land left to build another Catholic church in that particular suburb. Eventually, I had to transfer my children to public school.

When I took them to the first English Mass, I was thrilled at how easy it was for them to understand the meaning of the service.

Immediately after WWII, my father spoke to our local pastor, and suggested that he had better start thinking about expanding the school to accommodate all the children who would be born during what eventually came to be known as the Baby Boomer generation. The pastor, a Godly man, said he saw no reason to expand the school.

Years later, my husband and I wanted to buy a house in that neighborhood, but did not because the school was unable to take our children as students.