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and women. Above all, this indirect method greatly helps to 

 guard the growing youth from running into evil ways and 

 from abandoning or becoming indifferent to the ancient faith 

 or of losing his heritage of Catholicity. 



It behooves us to be on our guard against the traps which 

 are deliberately laid to ensnare the immigrant and deceive him 

 in regard to his faith and worship. The establishment of the 

 charitable nurseries and settlement houses which are frankly 

 non-Catholic may be ascribed to motives of mistaken charity 

 I and not to proselyting principles, but nothing of the kind 

 can excuse the pseudo-CathoHc missions and chapels which 

 are now being established to attract the immigrant of Catholic 

 faith, or of faiths allied to CathoHcism. Only bad faith and 

 a species of malice can explain such things. 



In a large Protestant Episcopal chapel of Trinity Church 

 on the East side in New York City there is a sign which 

 reads in Italian : "Ogni Domenica LA MESSA alle 9 ore," 

 that is, "Every Sunday MASS at nine o'clock." And in this 

 chapel at nine o'clock on Sunday morning a Latin Mass is 

 said in the usual Roman vestments. More than that, it is 

 said by a former priest who has connected himself with this 

 mission. Now this is a church which repudiated the Mass 

 and the Latin language some three hundred years ago, al- 

 though the extreme high churchmen are trying to revive it. 

 But it was never thought that they would use it as a bait to 

 attract raw Italian immigrants to the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church. Lest this be regarded as an isolated individual case, 

 attention is called to the fact that the late General Convention 

 of the Protestant Episcopal Church in session at New York 

 City "empowered the Missionary Board of that church to 

 bring to this country Syrian, Greek and Russian priests to 

 minister to congregations in need of them in American 

 churches, and communicants of the Roman faith lacking a 

 church are invited to take part in this hospitality, and in 

 case a priest of the foreign church is not available, priests of 

 the Protestant Episcopal Church are authorized to hold serv- 

 ices as nearly as possible according to the foreign rites." It 

 may be hospitality on the part of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church, but how about the deceived foreign immigrant? 



Other churches, not given to liturgy and ritual like the Epis- 

 copal Church, have gone as far as it in their endeavor to 



