Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1909 — MALE CATHOLICS GOOD CHURCHMEN [ARTICLE]

MALE CATHOLICS GOOD CHURCHMEN

Outnumber Protestants In Attending Service. Washington, Aug. 20.—Standing out as a conspicuous feature of a bulletin issued by the cencus bureau entitled “Census of Religious Bodies, ’*■ is the fact that out of a church membership in the United States in 1906 of nearly 33,000,000, males formed considerably less than half of the total. Among the Protestants only 39.3 per cent were males, while In the Roman Catholic church the males formed 49.3 per cent of the total membership. Other salient features of the report show that there were a billion and a quarter dollars invested in church edifices and that every day eight new churches sent their spires sykward.