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Progress of Romanism

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 1, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 27, No. 22.

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Progress of Romanism

PROGRESS OF ROMANISM.—It is not generally known that there are more than four millions of Roman Catholics in the United States. Since 1808 there has been an increase from eighty to two thousand five hundred churches; from sixty-eight to twenty-three hundred priests; from two to forty-five bishops; and from one to forty-eight dioceses.
Besides these, the Catholics have 102 orphan asylums, where they educate some 7000 orphans, and have over 100 benevolent and charitable societies, and 28 hospitals. They have also 97 library institutes for young men; 212 female academies, and 303 free schools for 27,940 males, and 327 schools for 29,671 females.