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I consider 60% attendance good, given that the average Sunday Mass attendance in the United States is 50%. Two points: 60% is good for the US in this day and age, but it pales in comparison to the pre-Vatican 2 figures of 75%. Here's a link to a source.

Second point: Your stats on current US Mass attendance are about 10 years out of date. The latest figures are more on the order of 20-30%, if my memory serves me well. So by that measure, your parish is one of the better ones. You should thank God for that. Many Americans belong to a parish without a priest assigned to it.

I still would be mighty obliged if you would answer the following question: how many vocations has your parish produced in the last 30 years? The parish where I grew up, which is has about 30,000 members and is thoroughly laden with the "spirit of vatican 2", produced exactly 1 vocation since 1970.

I still would be mighty obliged if you would answer the following question: how many vocations has your parish produced in the last 30 years?

I've only been in this parish for ten years. In that period, three men from our parish have been ordained along with four permanent deacons.

I dunno, you think that going from Latin to the vernacular, or Vatican II has anything to do with this???? Or could it be the pull of secularism and self-centered materialism that is causing it?

Kind of like Ronald Reagan said about his affiliation with the Democratic Party (and I've said about blacks' relationship with the Republican Party), "The Catholic Church didn't leave them, they left the Catholic Church."