"The situation in Boston, however, is not due to a shortage of priests, but to a shortage of Catholics. Mass attendance in Boston is approximately equal to mass attendance in Montreal and Dublin; on an average Sunday in ordinary time, fewer than ten percent of Bostonian Catholics attend mass."

And what in Boston led to this situation?  Yes, that's right, the previous Archbishop of Boston, Bernard Law, made the archdiocese a pedophile's playground.  He blamed the child victims of sexual abuse by priests for soliciting their own abuse and made a public call for God's wrath on his critics.  No wonder there was a drop in Mass attendance.