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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
Catholics Number 23,0000,000
In U. S. Statistician Says
SERVICE SCHOOL FOR
CATHOLICS TO REOPEN
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not
539 males. Adding these estimated
figures of males and females to
gether we obtain a total of 16,469,-
386 Catholics.
Correction by Age.
In addition to this correction by
sex another correction by age may
be made. The report shows the
number of members 13 years of age
and over and the number under 13
years. Information on this item was
available for a little less than 13
million members, but an estimate is
made by the census for the remain
ing members, the estimated totals
being 3,924,402, or 25 per cent, under
13 and 11,797,413, or 75 per cent, 13
years and over. This distribution by
age is not in accordance with the
goueral distribution by age of the
population of the United States. In
1920 there were 29,537,550 persons
under 13 years of age, compared with
76,173,070 persons 13 years of age
and over, so that those under 13
constituted 38.8 per cent of those 13
years of age and over. It is safe
to say that in Catholic families the
number of children was relatively
not less in the general population.
The truth is probably the other way.
This means that to the 11,797,413
Catholics 13 years of age and over
there would correspond not less than
38.8 per cent of that number, of
4,577,396 children under 13, or 652,-
994 more than are given in the re
port on religious bodies. Adding
tliis correction for age distribution
to the figures that we obtained by
making the correction for sex dis
tribution, we obtain an estimated
total of 17,122,380 Catholics, which
is the rock bottom minimum of what
could be considered as the total
Catholic population of the United
States. As a matter of fact the cor
rect figure is certainly larger and
for these three reasons:
1. In allowing for the proportion
of males a ratio was used that is al
most certainly lower than the actual
ratio among Catholics, because of
the fact that among immigrants, a
large proportion of whom are Cath
olics, the ratio of males is greater
than among natives.
2. In making the correction by age
the ratio of children was also almost
certainly too small, as all the exist
ing , statistics indicate that among
Hie races which are overwhelming
ly Catholic, like the French Cana
dians and the Italians, the number
of children per family is larger than
among other elements of the popu
lation.
3. Because of the assumption
made that outside of what may be
called building up the families of
the reported members through sex
and age corrections the membership
of the church coincides with the to
tal number of persons of the faith.
This assumption is hardly correct,
but there are no direct statistics for
the United States to disprove it and
we are compelled to turn to Can
adian sources to obtain additional
light on the subject.
Light From Canada.
The census of 1901 in Canada
shows that there were 1,356,019 mem
bers of the Roman Catholic Church
^ in that country and 2,299,600 persons
of Catholic faith, or a ratio of 1.64
persons of the faith per one person
actually belonging to the church. For
non-Catholics the ratio was much
higher. There were 852,464 persons
belonging to a church other than
the Roman Catholic and there were
3,141,715 persons in the population
who were not Roman Catholics—a
ratio of 3.69 per church member. If
these ratios held true in the United
States there would be the following
number of persons:
Per
Cent.
Catholic 15,721,815 1.61—25,784,000 21
Non-
Catholic 20,203,039 3.69—96,697,000 79
check on this conclusion, ds
available.
Catholics Have 21 Per cent.
While the number of persons per
church member in the United States
is this reported smaller than in Can
ada, there is no reason that occurs
to one why this discrepancy should
be different to any extent for Cath
olics and for non-Catholics. If the
enumeration of the non-Catholics
was more thorough in the United
States, it may be assumed that the
enumeration of Catholics was more
thorough to the same degree. In
other words, while the Canadian ra
tios are too high for both groups
of people in the United States, there
is no reason to assume that the re
lation between the Catholic and non-
Catholic ratios is different in the
United States than in Canada, and
hence it may be concluded that the
percentage distribution of the popu
lation by religion is fairiy accurate
ly represented by these figures, even
though the ratios of population to
church membership are not the
same. On this basis, the Catholics
would constitute 21 per cent of the
population, or on the basis of the
latest estimate of population, about
22,900,000. This is at the rale of
1.33 Catholics per one member of
the church and anpears to be a con
servative estimate as it assumes
that three-fourths of all the Cath
olics are church members.
General Conclusions.
The general conclusions may be
summarized as follows: The number
of Roman Catholics in the United
States is certainly larger than the
number of Catholic church members
enumerated by the Census religion
bodies. This number, 15,721,815
would be increased about 1,400,000
merely through the process of build
ing up the families of church mem
bers on the basis of age and sex
distribution of the total population
of the United States. But even the
adjusted figure is clearly incomplete,
as there is no reason to believe that
even substantially all the persons
belonging to the faith are included
among church members. By com
paring the United States figures
with those available for Canada,
where both the number of church
members and of persons professing
each faith are available, the con
clusion is reached that Catholics
constitute not less than 21 per cent
of the population of the United
States and that 23,000,000 is a rea
sonable estimate of their number.
Washington Institution is
Designed to Turn Out
Trained Social Workers.
BOGUS K. OF C. OATH
FIGURES IN LAW SUIT
Arkansas Politicians Charg
ed With Circulating It in
Recent Campaign.
Washington.—The second year of
the National Catholic Service School
will open on September 16. The
object of the school, which was es
tablished one year ago by the Na
tional Council of Catholic Women,
is to train Catholic girls and wo
men for professional social w()rk.
At the conference of social work,
held in Providence, R. I., from June
22 to June 29, representatives from
all the welfare organizations'in Am
erica met to discuss modern meth
ods of handling social problems.
The reports from this conference
show the increasing demand for
trained workers in every line of na
tional and local social work. It has
to meet this demand that the cur
riculum of the National Catholic
Service school has been planned.
One and two courses will be given
in Social Community and Industrial
Surveys, Social and Industrial Re
search, Community Orgonizations,
Recreational Work, Child Welfare,
Hospital Social Service, Family Case
Work, Social Legislation and Insti
tutional Management.
Three types of students will be
admitted to the Service School: Col
lege graduates who will be given
credit for graduate work; students
who have not completed a college
course, but whose experience in so
cial work, enables them to follow
the course of study, and special stu
dents who wish to take up a limited
number of subjects without credit.
The cost of the regular one year
course, including tuition, room and
board is $500. Special courses may
be arranged with the director.
The National Council of Catholic
Women urges affiliated organiza
tions and interested individuals to
establish scholarships in their com
munities for tf.-ls who wish to enter
the Service. School, but who cannot
afford the expense. These girls
could then go back to their home
cities to establish Catholic Socia!
Work of the highest standard.
A catalogue of the National Cath
olic Service School and further in
formation may be obtained by ad
dressing the Director, National Cath
olic Service School, 2400 Nineteenth
Street, N. W., Washington, I). C.
Little Rock, Ark.—The infamous
“bogus oath of the Knights of Co
lumbus” is playing its part in Ar
kansas politics, despite the wide
publicity of its slanderous intent
Blytlieville is an enterprising town
on the banks of the Mississippi, with
a small minority of Catholics among
ARCHBISHOP IMPROVES
Uruguain Prelate Recovering
from Anarchist’s Bullet.
Buenos, Aires.—The attempted as
sassination of the Archbishop of
Montevideo Monsignor Aragons,
aroused a feeling or horror even
among Uruguayan free-thinkers.
Many messages of condolence were
sent the Archbishop, including one
from Dr. Cantilo, Governor of the
Province.
-Monsignor Aragone, is now said to
be definiately out of danger and has
its residents. Even these few are
too many for some o-f the residents been visited by representatives of
who are members of the Klan, and
they are especially marked when
they aspire for political office, as
evidenced by a suit filed in me cir
cuit court of Blvtheville against the
city clerk and a local justice of the
peace.
This suit alleges that Curtis J.
Little, candidate for re-election to
the office of city treasurer was
slandered through circulation of a
report that he had subscribed to a
certain oath, said to be administer
ed to members of the Knights of
Columbus, a Catholic secret organi
zation.
John G. Bourland, city clerk of
Blytlieville, K. W. Chapman, a jus
tice of the peace of Chickasawba
township, and Jack Witharn, of Bly-
theville are the defendants.
Little declares in his complaint
that defendants distributed a circu
lar calculated to prejudice voters
against him and to damage his re
putation. The circular contains
the alleged oath of the Knights of
Columbus, and asserts that Little
took the oath. Little declares he did
not take such an oath when he join
ed the Knights of Columbus.
COMMERCE, GA., NEWS.
The Atlanta school board in its
action relative to certain teachers
leads us to indulge in the hope and
belief that love for the spirit and
letter of the constitution is not dead
yet. It might have been worse. Sec
tarianism in a school or a school
board has no place or should have
none in our system of education.
Catholic associations and many pro
minent people.
In commenting on the attempted
assassination, the Southern Cross
said:
“Although the blame is directly
due to the madman or criminal who
attempted the foul deed, there is no
small share of the responsibility
on the men who have wrested re
ligion from the people thus remov
ing the greatest possible bulwark
against crime, namely moral re
straint.”
The would-be assassin, on being
examined, explained that he was an
anarchist and said that if he had
killed the Archbishop there would
have been one less Catholic in the
world.
CALL ON CHRISTIANS TO
END TURKISH MASSACRES
By Rev. Dr. William Baron von
Capitainc.
(N. C. W. C. News Service.
Cologne.—It is expected that
the appeal made by the recent
international congress of the
League of Peoples urging the
Christian world to unite in put
ting an end to the persecution of
Christians in Turkish territories
will bring results. The testi
mony of numerous delegates in
dicated that the policy of the
Turkish government is to exter
minate not only the Armenians,
but all the Christian populations
of the country.
The munich Congress sent to
the Supreme Council and the Sec
retary General of the League of
Nations a report of the outrages
which the Turks have been com
mitting on Christians, and asked
that some action he taken to
stop them. One of the delegates
M. Seferides, of Greece, testified
to the Turkish atrocities, and it
was on his motion that the
League of Nations was requested
to intervene. M. Seferides de
clared that within the last six
months 300,000 Christians have
been massacred by the Turks, and
that all Asia Minor is suffering
the most appalling persecution.
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“UNITARIANS NEED ORDER.”
Andover, Mass.—It is time for
Unitarianism to get down to some
substantial and orderly basis, to in
ject a little “law and order” into
its make-up, and put a stop to tho
free-lancing of its ministers, accord
ing to a distinguished preacher of
the Unitarian church, Dr. Abraham
M. Rihbany, of Brookline, who spoke
here before a gathering of minis
ters of his sect at the annual insti
tute on Andover Hill.
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Total 122,481,000 100
This total is of course, exagger
ated since there were only 109,248,-
393 persons in the United States in ;
July, 1922. Thus, according to offi
cial reports, the ratio of inhabitants
to church members is smaller in
the United States than in Canada.
This may he due to the fact that
the United States census was more
elaborate and painstaking, or to the
fact that the population Of tiie
United States is more permanently
settled and that for this reason
church affiliations are more thor-j
oughly established. Unfortunately ,
information for Canada by prov- j
luces, which might afford a helpful [
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CATHOLICS DO NOT BELIEVE
That the Pope is God.
That the Pope cannot do wrong.
That the Pope has temporal rights in America.
That the Pope can claim their political allegiance
That the Pope can nullify laws, oaths, or contracts at will.
THEY DO NOT BELIEVE
That the marriages of Protestants are invalid.
That Protestant husbands and wives are living in sin.
That the children of Protestants are illegitimate.
That contracts with Protestants may be broken.
That Protestants may be bated or persecuted.
That Protestants will all be damned.
THEY DO NOT BELIEVE
That public schools are an evil.
That they ought to be abolished or destroyed.
That they ought not to be supported by a common lax.
That education ought not to be universal and free.
That it ought not to be compulsory where necessary.
THEY DO NOT BELIEVE
That they can buy forgiveness of sin. ,
That they can purchase freedom from purgatory.
That they can get indulgence to commit sin.
That sin can be forgiven without repentcnce.
THEY DO NOT BELIEVE
That images may be worshipped.
That anybody or thing may he worshipped or adored “in the
heavens above, or the earth below, or the waters be
neath the earth,” but the One True God.
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT CATHOLICS DO BELIEVE,
WRITE THE
CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION
OF GEORGIA
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