AMERICAN CATHOLICS.
,';•;., ;y ■: /DISPUTED STATISTICS;;'; "\^:^ (BI TELEGItAPE— PRESS .ASSOCIATION—-COPTBIGHT ) .■<; Xi',': : -:' y-.-v-i' 'New; York, .January .28. ;■ ■ Including ■ persons affiliated ', by family ties to.'-members, whether they belong to the organisation or not, a census gives ;the* Roman' Catholic Church, in the United States: a total of. 22,474,440 members".' '■-. ' " ". ;: ; ■; V ; ; ;/ ! l : This'total includesthe:;;PMlippines,;,aid' other'-islands under'the American",fiag.;.,The: number of ; Catholics V.in.> tho7,' r Unitedj-, States,, proper-is. -14,235,451; X -'':;-"-' ■■ ':o''y... '■■■ .■.'■:')'':. ■ ':■ ■'- •"•*'■': ■';.■■:•: London,^ January 28." ■The.. New .York ■-, correspondent :. ; of : . ('The! Times" states' that' tho , statistics' relating, to the Catholic GhTirch!are.useless;for purposes of ■:. comparison, /inasmuch ;as.; .other churches enumerate .their actual , :members.' .■ " ; r, .- /.'"'.. .[According to statistics propaTe* by Dr.CH. : K. Carroll, late v Special Agent s.of the TTnited' States Census Office,\fpr "The.Christian'Advocate," and'published in.1907, there were then : in '.the United .-States;' 11,143,455 Catholics .■ (including '•',■ Roman. 'Catholic; Maronite 'Catholio, Polish Catholib, Old Catholic, Reformed Catholic; Russian Orthodox, Greet Orthodox;';STrian Orthodox, ■ Armenian); : 8,551,891 Methodists; 5,140,770/ Baptists;,l,77l,B77■.Presbyterians; 848,492^^;Protestant.:Episcopal.]' ~.-.,;. ■ ■;■
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 419, 30 January 1909, Page 5
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148AMERICAN CATHOLICS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 419, 30 January 1909, Page 5
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