| | In 1851 | 1899 | 1904 | 1906 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 |
|———————————–|———|——|——|——|——|——|——|
| Priests, – | 958 | 3235 | 3818 | 4051 | 4193 | 4246 | 4302 |
| Churches, chapels,
stations, – | 683 | 1854 | 2008 | 2076 | 2137 | 2150 | 2167 |
| Religious houses— | | | | | | | |
| Men, – | 17 | 260 | 303 | 317 | 318 | 323 | 330 |
| Women, – | 53 | 557 | 754 | 785 | 813 | 836 | 843 |
The Roman Catholic Tablet of 12th August, 1905, spoke of “the arrival of the (French) exiles in their hundreds and thousands.” There were in Great Britain in 1902 between six and ten thousand nuns.
The estimated Roman Catholic population of the United Kingdom is 5,500,000. There are about 1,500,000 Catholics in England and Wales. Of these 1,000,000 are Irish, 300,000 foreigners, and only 200,000 English.
According to the Tablet of 12th February, 1898, 25 per cent. of our gaol gentry are members of “the only true Church.” The bulk of them hail from Catholic Ireland.
Roman Catholics in Parliament:—Thirty-three in House of Lords, seventy-five in House of Commons—total, 108.—A. Le Lievre, Secretary of the Protestant Bureau.