ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AMERICA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 787, 9 April 1910, Page 9

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AMERICA.

Tho Catholic Church continues to advance .under tho Stars and Stripes. According to statistics given in ad-vance-sheets of the Official Catholic Directory, published ' by,'the M. H. Wiltzius Co., of Milwaukee and New York, there aro now 14,317,027 Catholics in the /United States, showing a gain of 111,576 over tho" figures . presented to tho public a year ago. Adding to the number of Catholics in the United States proper thoso of the Philippines, Porto Rico, and the Hawaiian Islands, the total number of Catholic's under the United States flag is 22,587,079. The. power of , the Catholics throughout the Union may be gauged from the .following figures. Iho_ Catholic population of the State of New York.is no less than 2;722,647, Pennsylvania conies secuid with 1,491,766. Illinois follows closely with 1,443,752. Massachusetts is next with 1,373,772. Most of tho other States contain a large proportion of Catholics. The State of Minnesota has a Catholic population of 427,627; California, 391,500; and even Texas has more than a quarter of a million. In the city of Chicago the Catholic churches number ono hundred and eighty-seven, and in the city of : New York one hundred and thirty-eight. • Flourishing as Catholic institutions in tho United States are the most .promising aspect of tho Catholic position is the progressivencss of the Catholics in all that affects'the nation's welfare. They take, tho lead in groat movements, anil easily prove by their united action that they are the most powerful refeioiis body in tho 'country.—"Catholic Times." ■