Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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1500: Europe's 100,000,000 souls were 80% Roman Catholic, 20% Jewish, Hussite, Waldensian, Lollard. But Europe was already pregnant with Protestantism.
By 1880 there were 74,000,000 Protestants in the world. The Catholic population had increased to 149,000,000.
In the U. S., the progress of Protestantism since 1800 has been tremendous, "far exceeding anything ever seen elsewhere, even in the Apostolic era." All religious bodies increased 416% from 1830 to 1930, while the nation's population increased only 255%. Of three groups- Evangelical, Liberal and Catholic-the...
¶ In Manhattan arrived Rev. Lorenzo M. Spirale, treasurer of the Catholic Augustinian Order, sent by Benito Mussolini to preach good citizenship to young U. S.-Italians.
¶ In Detroit, Jews were irate because, at a Catholic conference on Industrial Problems, President George Hermann Derry of Detroit's Marygrove College (Catholic) had said: "A few international Jews hold a stranglehold on the world supply of gold that enables them to decide the destiny of nations, to...