Growth of Catholicism

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 13, 1878

Growth of Catholicism.

THERE is probably too good ground for the rejoicing of Catholics over the progress of their power in New England. The growth of this church is no small element in the threatening dangers now hanging over this country:—

“The Catholic World exults in the growth of Romanism in the very home of Puritanism: ‘New England promises to be the first portion of the country which is likely to become distinctively Roman Catholic. The immigration into New England is small, but is composed mostly of Catholics; the increase of population is very largely Catholic; the emigration is almost entirely non-Catholic.’ It is already a fact that a great deal of the purest Puritanism extant is now to be found West of New England. The Congregational ministers and churches throughout the West are, to-day, as a whole, sounder in the faith than those of Massachusetts.”—Advance.