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Crime and Roman Catholicism in New South Wales

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 9, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 22.

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Crime and Roman Catholicism in New South Wales

The criminal returns in New South Wales for 1879, show that 45½ per cent. of the whole number of criminals were returned as Roman Catholics, and 54½ per cent. as belonging to Protestant and other denominations. At the census of 1871 the Roman Catholics numbered only 29 per cent. of the total population.