Posted on 06/05/2009 9:37:38 AM PDT by NYer
.- The 2009 Official Catholic Directory has released new statistics on the Catholic population. The directory shows that there are 68.1 million Catholics in the United States, an increase of about one million from the previous year which maintains Catholics as 22 percent of the U.S. population.
The directory, also known as the Kenedy Directory, reports that there are 41,489 diocesan and religious order priests, 60,715 religious sisters, 4,905 religious brothers and 16,935 permanent deacons. In 2008 there were 887,145 infant baptisms, 42,629 adult baptisms, and 81,775 baptized Christians who entered full communion with the Church. The Kenedy Directory lists 18,674 parishes, including 91 new parishes, and 189 seminaries with 4,973 students.
Over 722,000 students are in high school religious education programs, while over three million are in elementary school religious ed.
There are 6,133 Catholic elementary schools and 1.6 million students. The country’s 1,341 Catholic high schools educate over 674,000 students, while 234 Catholic colleges and universities serve, over 795,000 students.
U.S. Catholic hospitals number 562 and serve almost 85.3 million patients, while 3009 Catholic social service centers assist 27.2 million people annually.
According to a press release from the U.S. bishops' conference, Catholic organizations in the United States provide an estimated $28.2 billion in services through institutions represented by the Catholic Health Association ($5.7 billion), Catholic Charities USA ($3.5 billion), and the National Catholic Education Association ($19.8 billion).
These figures do not include assistance provided through parishes and other organizations such as the Knights of Columbus.
Ping!
well, let’s see...it ought to follow, oughtn’t it?
That’s going to get some people’s panties in a bunch.
Knights of Columbus membership is up as well. These people are not just coming to the Church, they are active as well.
VIVAT JESUS!
All faithful, observant, and Mass-attending Catholics - and none of them voted for Obama, if you believe the usual suspects!
Seven eigths of them became members without their own knowledge and can't even feed themselves yet...
“That’s going to get some people’s panties in a bunch.”
It didn’t take long...like flies to a dung-hill. :)
You've got something in common with them.
Who claimed that?
I’m surprised you didn’t trot out those Pew numbers you keep in your wallet.
How many are illegal immigrants?
So 87.5% of Catholics can't even feed themselves?
With all the influx from Mexico and like countries, who could be surprised by this?
The Usual Suspects on FR are the few people who jump onto Catholic threads to “minister”.
Why would they say that no Catholics voted for Obama? They are the last people to say that.
>>...and none of them voted for Obama, if you believe the usual suspects!
Who claimed that?<<
You know them, the Usual Suspects.
I find that kind of funny that the few who come onto Catholic threads for slash and burn evangelization would speak so highly of Catholics.
Someone is confused.
C'mon Petronski...887 thousand infants...Your church has grown by 887 thousand little babies...Any dogs and cats??? Seems as if someone can hold it still long enough to throw some water on, they Catholocize it...
Would think that all one has to do is count the number of your churches that are being abandoned and how many new ones being built...That would be a far more accurate picture of how well your religion is growing...
That's not what you said.
It took you a long time to come up with the dodge, and it's a clever one, but your anti-Catholic pal was referring to all Catholics (thus the "joke" about voting).
Sometimes you go so far even YOU run out of ideas on how to retrench.
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