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Catholic church attendance is also tied to the "Elephant in the Room", the exodus of the middle class from RI- this is not a situation unique to Catholics in RI.

Since residents got easy access to the internet around 2003, they have been leaving RI in droves having discovered that not every State is doing terribly and there are many better places to raise a family, no matter who the General Assembly blames and the Projo parrots. The numbers of elderly who attend church regularly have been dropping due to attrition. RI's new population of illegals and other immigrants attend storefront "Iglesias" as they do in their home countries because community churches actually help the community- their money isn't deposited and sent off to the home office (Vatican). Storefront / community churches actually provide almost immediate assistance (cash, services, volunteer aid).