Understanding the postwar era

I just stumbled upon a key stat in an ancient Time magazine:

Religion: More Catholics 

Friday, May 12, 1961 

U.S. Roman Catholics now form 24% of the population, compared to 19% a decade ago. According to the Official Catholic Directory for 1961, published last week, baptized Catholics number 42,104,899—13,470,021 more than in 1951.

This was a sizable issue at the time, and the resolution of it in the 1960s, as I explained in Taki's article a few months ago, opened up room for much that followed.