Perhaps you were lucky, and you had a good parish priest. Thank God for that! But for the most part they LIE about money and attendance! Would somebody please tell me why people believe that statistics provided by (largely) apostate priests would be in any manner true? Perhaps the parish you were in was one of the rare, properly administered ones. If so - good! BUT my story is true in most of the neighborhoods in which white people in NYC fear to tread - which is most of them!
And sir - I have been to many, many parishes there of a Sunday morning!!!
You know, there are few neighborhoods in NYC I would not venture into. Most of those, like Bedford-Stuyvesant, have very, vey, very, few Catholics.
"BUT my story is true in most of the neighborhoods in which white people in NYC fear to tread - which is most of them! "
Well, I think you just explained your own observations. Please do not think NYC is typical of America. By the way, people at this sight are well aware I have a very inhospitable attitude towards illegal aliens. I slam Bush regularly for selling America down the Rio, and trying to outflank the Democrats to the left on all language and immigratiuon issues. But I've moved from city to city (NY, Philly, Boston, DC) several times, and each time I do that, I plot out with pushpins on a street map the location of every violent crime. Hispanic neighborhoods are almost always quite safe.