Roman Catholic Church in the United States.
A RECENT number of the Catholic World directs attention to the rapid growth of the Roman Catholics in the United States. It says: “Nowhere has the Catholic Church increased so prosperously within the last fifty years as in the United States of America. Two thousand churches and chapels were built, an increase of 1,800 clergymen; 160 schools established for the Catholic training of 18,000 boys and 34,000 girls. Moreover, there existed in 1857, 66 asylums, with 4,968 orphans of both sexes; 26 hospitals, with 3,000 beds; 4 insane asylums, besides many other charitable institutions, all supported by the private charity of Catholics.”