Dad29 analyzes.
A sidebar in the article has some statistics from Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University.
45.6 million: U.S. Catholics in 1965
64.8 million: U.S. Catholics in 2005
58,632: U.S. priests in 1965
42,839: U.S. priests in 2005
CARA has these stats and more here. Mass attendance was 67% in 1965 and 45% in 2004, the last year reported. That works out to 30,552,000 Catholics at Mass in 1965 and 29,160,000 in 2004/5. Considering just Mass-attending Catholics, there were 521 Catholics per priest in 1965 and 680 in 2004/5.
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