Catholic Quebec?

Walt, having celebrated his birthday well if not wisely, will confine himself today to recommending today's Globe Essay: Neither practising nor believing, but Catholic even so

Here's a taste... "The ‘baptized pagans' of Quebec, the most secularized society in the Western world, have less and less knowledge of the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, but attempts to remove Catholicism's symbolic presence in public places and on the school curriculum are greeted with howls of outrage."

Why did attendance at Mass and other practice of the Catholic Faith "vaporize" in 1966? Walt will give the answer next week.