The well-regarded Québecoise mystery writer Louise Penny gives the impression that the great majority of Catholics in that province, including seniors, turned their backs on the church in disgust, exclusively on account of the sex abuse scandal. I have no idea how accurate that is. In the 1990s we visited the Oratory of St.-Joseph in Montréal, and found it to be thriving; and then in 2005, the day after my husband and I were married (in Montréal, by a judge named Louise Saint-Amour), we went to Ste.-Anne de Beaupré, a bit NE of ville de Québec, and again it looked lively enough. But that was 12 years ago! A lot can have happened since then.