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Nevertheless, they have found means to print and publish 

 in New York a tiny, four-page paper, "L'Operaio," which is 

 devoted to their interests and their Greek Rite. They have 

 several Albanese Greek Catholic societies, each of which is 

 said to have a good membership.^ 



The Italian Greeks frequently attend one of the Italian 

 churches of the Roman Rite, to celebrate many of their Greek 

 festivals, but they ardently desire to have a church of their 

 own. They also attend the Ruthenian Greek Catholic churches, 

 but here their unfamiliarity with the Slavonic tongue is a bar. 

 Some of them even have had their baptisms and weddings 

 celebrated in the Greek (Hellenic) Church of the Holy Trin- 

 ity, or in the Russian Cathedral of St. Nicholas, New York 

 City. But they need to be gathered up into one compact body, 

 where they may practice their ancient rites and where their 

 children may be taught the faith as well as the devotions of 

 their ancestors. 



It is said that the Italian is becoming well-to-do here in 

 America, and that in a few years he will also be a political 

 force to be reckoned with. To be a good citizen, he must also 

 be a good man, true to his faith and his country. There is no 

 better method of bringing these wandering sheep of our great 

 Catholic fold back to the active practice of their faith than by 

 placing before them the opportunity to enjoy the rites and wor- 

 ship of that glorious faith according to the Eastern form, which 

 they and their fathers have used ever since the days of the 

 Apostles. 



1 The chief of these are: Societa San Albanese, Societa San Bartolomeo Al- 



Giorgio, Societa Italo-Albanese, Societa banese, Societa San Paolo, and Societa 



Uguaglianza, Societa San Giuseppe, Stella Albanese, all of Manhattan, New 



Societa Gabriella Buccola, Societa Cuore York, 

 di Gesu, Societa Civitese, Societa Sicula- 



