Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: OT: US administration "yes people" Date: 23 Mar 2026 02:31:33 GMT Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <10p8i8m$1ro00$1@dont-email.me> <10p932h$2147v$2@dont-email.me> <10pa1dv$2d5dl$6@dont-email.me> <10pa6el$2f963$2@dont-email.me> <5PGcnQm5n5eAYiX0nZ2dnZfqnPWdnZ2d@giganews.com> <10pb5r2$2obtv$13@dont-email.me> <4luo8mxm8o.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10pd71s$3grlr$1@dont-email.me> <1rs7tbh.gpe5481mficwpN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <10pgt0i$mdso$7@dont-email.me> <6slv8mxh47.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <1rs9smu.jbxbeu1db40cvN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <1rsbpkc.vc5k1918vdagaN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <10pn28v$2pchc$2@dont-email.me> <878qbkz2t8.fsf@parhasard.net> <10ppou3$3l4me$3@dont-email.me> <874im7zdim.fsf@parhasard.net> <10ppu2s$3mv6i$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net motAiEiL9OrwH5w1xRzHUQSGj9uB+SjMKZK6l0WjXRmnMTI2kP Cancel-Lock: sha1:iwcEh/LU3bBPgvKrddNDXFg/i+o= sha256:LkXeCWcQIOAMslco32h69YafXRotypNTPe08CitboK8= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:83751 alt.usage.english:1140451 On Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:30:34 +1100, Peter Moylan wrote: > This also happened in the countries to which the Irish migrated, In > Australia, when I was a child, the Catholic church was initially > powerful because of the large number of Irish in the country. In time, > though, people came to decide that the policies the bishops were pushing > were reactionary and unacceptable. An even bigger factor in my lifetime > was the role of the Catholic schools. In the long run the major product > of the convent schools was a large supply of ex-Catholics. By now at > least a third of Australia, according to census data, is non-religious. > Islam is growing, a little, but Christianity is in decline. The number of Catholics in the US is growing but that needs clarification. The numbers in the traditional strongholds in the Northeast are declining while the Southwest numbers are growing mostly due to Hispanics.