The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-09-28
STATUS gHURgHl!
Tho Growing Population % tfs Oath
clio E,cnsnt III This III
Country. S35' II
IRISH cATHoLlcIs1 IN raE LEAD.
4 General Summary Showing Whers
the Majority Are located
Throug hsut the World.s .ss

States IS growing. The Catholic press
has done much to increase the Catholic
population of the United States. Editors
have repeatedly called attention to the
under estimates of the Catholic directo-
ries. For 10 years Sadlier's Directory
reported the Catholic population Of the
New York archdiocese at 100000. It was
no fault of the Catholic population; they
were increasing and multiplying, but the
"irremovable rectors" kept the figures
down in order to- keep. the Cathedral.
cum" immoyable. g..
The Catholic population OF the New
York archdiocese has been kept at s0O,-
900 in the Catholic directories for the
last five years. Six years ago, by rea-
son of an agitation started by the Citizen,
100000 Catholics were added to the pop
ulation of the New York archdiocese
None have been added since, despite I'M
migration and thousands of baptisms.
sadlier's Directory for 1895, after CIV
ing the Catholic population "as reported
by ecclesiastical authorities, seens con-
scious that some apology Is necessary for
presenting the figures Of six or eight years
ago. The editor therefore adds: "The
Catholic population of the United States
is about Il. 900, oee." IN
The religious count Of the United States
census Of 1890 says the Catholic Citizen
besides being OF Protestant basis, is in
complete and defective. The Citizen
knows Of no better way to estimate the
Catholic population than to refer to the
more accurate findings Of the census OF
1898 ay to foreign parentage. II we esti-
mate that out Of the 4,913,000 people Of
IRISH parentage (according to the United
States census Of 1890 four-1lfths are
Catholics, then there are 1920, 900 Catho-
les of Irish parentage in the United
States; as one-third of the Germans in
Germany are Catholics, 1t Is fair to esti-
mate that one-third Of the 6,851 900 per-
sons of German parentage in the United
States are Catholics; this would make our
German Catholic population 2,2SO,OOo;
those Of French Canadian parentage, &C
ccrdine to the census Of 1890, are 497, 900,
all of whom may be safely considered
Catholics; those Of Bohemian, French and
Italian parentage in the United States
huber 75o 900, of whom 100000 may be
regarded as Catholics; of the 100000
people who are of English, Scotch and
Welsh parentage, 1t seems reasonably safe
to say, having in view the large number
of Poles, Belgians, Spaniards, South
Americans. Mexicans and Austrians who
have come to our shores, that 100000 at
least are Catholics. - We have then as,
elements of the population the following
results: 49,
Catholics of Irish parentage. -. 1920 900
Catholics of German parentage. 1885, 600
Catholics Of French Canadian
parentage ......: 4S' Wv
French, Bohemian Italian and
Hungarian Catholics ...... -. 65O,OOO
Catholics of English, Scotch and
Welsh parentage ............. zoo,ooo
Catholics of all other foreign pa
rentage ......... ............ ooV'oo'
5000 900
] This is the number of persons of for
eign parentage who ought to be Catho-
lies. It is reasonably safe to add to this
number 100000 others Of American pa
rentage who ought to be Catholics; our
figures would then reach $4,000, 900, which
was perhaps the natural Catholic popula-
ton of the United States in $780, 1t
ought to be 14,000, 900 in 1895, if we are
entitled to presume that the Catholic pop
Nlation increases at the same rate that the
rest of the population increases. #