CATHOLIC GROWTH IN AMERICA.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 46, 14 March 1874, Page 10

CATHOLIC GROWTH IN AMERICA.

MXTmn SPAU>H^ , a Koman Catholic priest of Louisville, delivered a parting lecture to his congregation, in which he indulged in the most teS n l a^ lClpa w DS f *. he fi ™l ■!I! I P remac y offche Catholic religion ££.#,«?• Headrait ? tha ? formeri -y »nany foreigners were lost to the Uiureh on coming to this country because there were not a sufficient number of priests to look after them. But now there are mth v^ nntry ' and e° where you will there is a priest, and the lectnrer believes that now the great mass of Catholic ZGS ?Twf t0 th * ChUrch ' The number of Priests ha* doubled in the last ten years, now reaching to SDOfc One-fifth of tha natives-to mt, g,000;000- Bre8 re Boman ofihdS^nd they are maS remarkable conversions. In Baltimore timteen per cent, of the^S mationi are of converts from other sects-. New England, too Father OPO P n a p d h"f/ a^ 8 ' 18b T^ ing ,Catholfc, Catholfc faBtOT than C^WSSS One-third of the population of Massachusetts is Irish, and that third Wmore children fhan the other two-thirds.. "In the m!£w»3 £f"^S!J ' T mm P b « d 1.I«^.1 .I«^. " *• »a have a New Knd Sfsfew a Tor?i 1 M? il h eMi n« 0m ? 0f t . he9e large P ~^tant ChuShet