text: Talk about an Alinskyesque twisting of the facts. The drop in Mass attendance started in 1965 with the close of Vatican II and all its Utopian, relativistic/indifferentist "window opening to the world"---not some modernist "smaller, purer Church" boogeyman. This generation of Catholics is more traditional than the thankfully dying off VII adherents. Francis is the last hope for these scoundrels.