[kitkat]

***With all due respect, your personal experiences are less than definitive as to what was happening nationwide.***

With all due respect, my personal experiences took place in a largely Catholic area. (Make that county) What would have happened in other areas of the country where there were few Catholics? Poorer parishes could not afford to build new schools.

[MrLeRoy]

my personal experiences took place in a largely Catholic area

A particular area with a particular bishop who was "not far sighted enough." No evidence there that all bishops nationwide had that failing.