The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-05-31
According to Census Report the
Catholics Have Most Com
municants There
LARGER NUMBER PROTESTANJS
This Denomination Strongest Outside
of principal Cities and Has
20,287,742 Communicates.
12,679,142 Catholics.

washington, ID. e., May 3l.-The ag-
aggregate number of 32,936.445 COM
municants or members of all religious
denominations i'm continental United
States was reported for 1906, accord
ing to the l.. 8. Census of Religious
Bodies for the same year, as detailed
in part / of the u. s. Census Bureaus
special report on the subject, now I'm
press. OF this grand total the various
Protestant bodies reported 20,2S7,742
and the Roman Catholic Church 49,
679,142.
For purposes OF comparison the Gen.
sus authorities divided the principal
cities into four classes. those having
in 1900 a population of 100000 and
over. constituting the first class those
of from 100000 to 300 200 forming the
second; those of from $4,000 to 100000
making the third; and those of from
$4,000 to $4,000 forming the fourth
class.
OF the Protestant aggregate there
were 1.47S,145 or 73 per cent in the
first class cities; Al per cent i'm the
second; and IA per cent in the third
and fourth classes combined, while SOC
per cent were outside the principal
cities.
OF the Roman Catholic Church's
total membership there were 1876. Asa
or 27.9 per cent in first class cities;
1,361,13 or 11.3 per cent in the Sec
ond: 1,570,944 or 13 per cent in the
third and fourth classes combined; F;
with 5,771.613 or 47.S per cent outside
the principal cities.
= 1t Is seen therefore, that tho mum
Der of members of the Roman Catholic
Church reported In cities of the frs
class was considerably more thar
double the number reported by all the
principal cities the number reported
by the Catholics was only a little over
one-third OF the number credited tc
the Protestants.
Only two of the Protestant bodies re-
ported a majority of their member
ship i'm the principal cities. |. G.. the
Church of Christ Scientist, s26 pei
cent, and the Protestant Episcopa
Church. 512 per cent; while of the
membership of the Jewish Congrega'
tions, SS.7 per cent are in the principa
cities, and of the Eastern ORTHODOX
churches 70.7 per cent.
or the total number of communi
cants or members reported for th'
principal cities by all denominations
6,307.529 or 60 per cent belonged Il
the Roman Catholic Church, and g.,
935. .S41, or 37.4. to Protestant bodies.
Comparison with the report for 1S9'
shows that in general there has beer
an increase in the proportion of com
municants or members in the principa
cities as compared with those outsid
of these cities. In 1906 the percent
age of the total number Of communi
cants I'm these cities for all denomina
tions was 31.9 as compared with 20.
in 1880.
OF the total number, 10.51117S, o
communicates or members i'm tn
principal cities in 1906. there wer'
7.34S.4O3 or 69.9 per cent reported b.
the 3S cities of over 100000 popula
ton, and of these 2,432.630 or S3.
per cent. belonged to Protestant bodie
and 4,736,535 or 64.5 per cent to tn
Roman Catholic Church. The latte
denomination had in these cities abou
1851 per cent of Its entire memlbershi
in cities of over $4,000 inhabitants.
In thirteen of the cities more tha
one half Of the communicates or mem
bers reported belonged TO Protestan
bodies, while in 23 the majority be
longed to the Roman Catholic Churcf
The cities showing the largest pro
portiors of Protestant communicate
are Memphis, S4.4 per cent; Toledo
20 per cent; washington, 66.9 per cent
KANSAS City Mo-, 66.2 per cent; an
Indianapolis. 62.1 per cent
The cities showing the largest per
centages of Roman Catholic communl
cants are Fall River. S65 per cent
San Francisco. S1.1 per cent; Ner
Orleans, 1917 per cent; New York, rs
per cent: Providence 76.5. per cent
st. Louis, SO per cent; Boston, 6s
per cent: Chicago. 6S.2 per cent: an
Philadelphia, Sis per cent.
In the Ave leading cities the propo1
tion OF communicates to populatio
was: New York, Al per cent: Ch
cago. iO.7; philadelphia. Ss.s; Bosto
62.s; and st. Louis. 1875 per cent.
Is stated that. in general. cities whio
have a relatively large Roman Catf
ollie population show higher pei
ceutage OF church members than citi'
in which this body has a compare
ltively small representation. In "
River s6.5 per cent of the total nun
ber Of members reported were Rona
Catholics and the church membershi
represented G7.s per cent of the pop'
lation. while In Memphis, where 81