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Had the Catholic Church remained the bastion of morality and decency it had been prior to 1960, the United States might have become a substantially Catholic nation by 2020. By and large, Catholic families were producing children well above the national average. Conversion rates from Protestantism and even Judaism were substantial. While economically liberal, the Democratic machines in the Northern cities were socially conservative, if not as strict as rural Protestant communities that were "dry" and Sabbath observant. Catholic pressure kept the movies and early television basically clean of overt sexuality, vile language, and graphic violence. Indeed, the period from 1933, when the Hays Code was established, to 1965 was the Golden Age of Hollywood.

But infiltration of the churches, the Catholic Church included, was a long term Communist goal. Even before Vatican II, leftists were infiltrating the clergy ranks. This was perhaps less visible in the United States, as Catholicism remained strong until the 1960s even as mainline Protestant denominations and seminaries were slowly taken over by modernist and neo-orthodox clergy in the first half of the 20th Century. It took longer for the Left to achieve its goals with regard to the Catholic Church, but their subversion was successful, both here and abroad.

Had Catholics continued their rate of having larger families and if conversions of non-Catholics continued over the last 60 years, it is easy to imagine a country where 40% of the population were Catholic adherents.

FWIW, I am a Protestant.