Many Catholic churches in our area have closed down. They say it’s a lack of priests.
That's true in many areas of the U.S.A. It's true here where I live, and where I came from. It's a sad situation when Roman Catholic members don't even attend their Mass on Sundays; here, of the total membership of the local Roman Catholic Church, only around 30% actually attend the Mass on any given Sunday. The other denominations of Christianity at least have over 50% attendance each Sunday of their total members. One church that I know of has over 90% of its members attend services on Sunday and 50% on their Wednesday evening Bible Studies. I doubt that this is true all over the USA, but I see more and more attendance at churches being the norm in the near future. Hopefully this will continue until Jesus returns.
Many of the Catholics around here can hardly be called "Christian", for their actions betray them. It is sad that the leadership of their church doesn't have more influence upon them. I won't go into why I say this, other than to say if the Holy Spirit was working in them, they wouldn't act the way they do. This is also true of many "mainstream" churches. Evangelicals seem to have the upper-hand in their actions, although a small number of them drag down the righteous ones. Enough said....