Interesting Facts about the Catholic world

Mr. Pablo Cuadra

Religion Class
 Did you know?
• Is your last name Zolp as verified
on your birth and Catholic
baptismal certificates? If so,
Loyola University in Chicago will
provide you with a full four-year
scholarship.
 Did You Know?
• Citizens of Catholic Monaco are
not allowed to gamble within
Monaco, a country known for its
casinos. Monegasques pay no
income tax.
 Did you know?
• As of December,
2007, the Vatican has
diplomatic relations
with 176 countries.
 Did you Know?
• Delores Hart, film
actress who appeared
in 1957 Elvis film
Loving You, became
a nun.
 Did you Know?
• Father Augustine Tolton was
the first person whose both
parents were African American
to become a Catholic priest in
America. Father Tolton was
born into a Catholic slave
family in 1854 in Missouri.
Prior to that, three Healy
brothers were priests. The
Healy brothers' father was an
Irish Catholic Georgian
slaveholder and their mother
was an African slave.
 Celtic Spain
• Saint James the Apostle is
buried in the Cathedral of
Santiago in Santiago de
Compostela, Spain.
 Did you know
• 3% of Iraq is Chaldean
Catholic. The Catholic
Church has been in
Iraq for 400 years.

Funeral of a Catholic killed in Iraq

 Did you know?
• In 2000 there were 801,185
nuns worldwide compared to
968,526 in 1975.

• In 2003 there were 73,316

nuns in the US compared to
179,954 in 1965.
 Did you know?
• The Vatican financed the
construction of the Watergate
Hotel and Apartment complex
in Washington, D. C. infamous
in President Richard Nixon's
resignation.

Watergate Hotel
 Catholic Population
• In 2003, 9.1% of
Koreans were Roman
Catholic.
• 60% of Slovakia is
Roman Catholic.
 Did you know?
• In 2003, 100,345
Catholics went to
prison for defending
their Catholic faith.
 Catholic News
• Fides is the Vatican's
missionary news service.
• Marconi began Vatican
Radio under Pope Pius XI.
 Politics
• There are more
Catholics in the U. S.
Congress than any
other religion.
 Did you know?
• Vatican astronomers conduct
research at the Vatican
observatory on Mount Graham,
Arizona, as well as at the Vatican
Observatory in Castel Gandolfo,
Italy.

Vatican observatory
Mount Graham, Arizona
 Prayer
St. Patrick’s Prayer
Christ be with me, Christ within me,
Christ behind me, Christ before me,
Christ beside me, Christ to win me,
Christ to comfort and restore me.

Christ beneath me, Christ above me,

Christ in quiet, and in danger,
Christ in hearts of all that love me,
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

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