 | Winfred Ernest Garrison - 1928 - 284 páginas
...is absolutely certain that there has been no enormous loss to the faith because of immigration, and it is very probable that there has been no loss at...which ordinarily takes place among any population." The total number of converts in the century ending with 1920 he estimates at 883,000. Probably not... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - 1963 - 284 páginas
...worth remembering. We summarize them here: There has been no enormous loss of Catholics and probably no loss at all, "beyond that defection of Catholics...which ordinarily takes place among any population." Further, without the immigration of the past century, the Church would today be "a weak, anemic body,"... | |
 | Roger Finke, Rodney Stark - 1992 - 352 páginas
...concluded: "There is no evidence of even an appreciable or measurable loss [of immigrant Catholics]. ... It is very probable that there has been no loss at...defection of Catholics which ordinarily takes place" (p. 221). Faced with a free market religious economy with a full spectrum of denominational options,... | |
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It is very probable that there has been no loss at all, beyond that defection of Catholics which ordinarily takes place among any population, due to the weakness of human nature and the usual manifestations of the same. 