Alarming Increase of Catholics in the United States by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 15, 1875

Alarming Increase of Catholics in the United States.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

THE Christian Union, of February 24 says:— “The Pope has appointed seven new bishops for his church in this country, and has raised the dioceses of Boston, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Santa Fe to the grade of archdioceses. The Boston diocese will probably include the New England States, where Catholicism has grown quite rapidly within forty or fifty years. In 1825 there was one priest in Massachusetts, one in Maine, and one in New Hampshire. In 1835 there were in New England twenty-seven priests and twenty-two Catholic churches. In 1844 the number of Catholics in New England was about sixty thousand, and there were thirty priests and thirty-seven churches. In 1875 there are about one million of Catholics, with one archbishop, five bishops, four hundred and forty-one priests, and four hundred and thirty-two churches.”

The Catholics are growing in this country faster than all other sects together. The whole country is dotted with their schools in which millions of Protestant children are being corrupted by their crafty teachings. The result cannot be uncertain. All these things are rapidly preparing the way for the image of the beast. D. M. CANRIGHT.