Joe's of 10:44 last night affords a prime example of how some Americans, even ones as intelligent as Joe, think that Wisconsin is The World and the US is The Universe, and extrapolate their arguments on that basis. The comparative "then'n'now" birth-rates among RC populations of Wisconsin & California, benignly neglectful as they may be of some aspects of the Church's official teaching, are really not relevant to the worldwide {& esp the Catholic 3rd World} picture, Joe.

~M~