text: Baloney.  Numbers stabilized, priest laicizations declined sharply between 1979 and the mid 1980s, and vocations slowly climbed.  The  "enthusiasm" and "vibrancy" of bland ecumenicist liturgy and substance free catechesis by 1990 was driving a generation to be "nones".  Under JPII and Benedict we recovered enthusiasm for Christ, and in the Roman Rite for romanitas.  Confident and joyful Catholic identity.