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a small minority of its membership is also made up of Galicians 

 who are either Greek Orthodox or of Orthodox proclivities, 

 for it is quite pro-Russian and opposed to the Ukrainians. It 

 has now 120 brotherhoods and 6,530 members, and publishes its 

 weekly newspaper, "Pravda" (Truth), at Olyphant, Pennsyl- 

 vania, in the Ruthenian old-style spelling. There is also the 

 "Rimsko a Greko Katolicka Jednota" (Roman and Greek Cath- 

 olic Union), of Pennsylvania, a Slavic organization which has 

 some 175 brotherhoods and about 9,000 members, and it is 

 estimated that about one-third of these are Greek Catholic. 

 This federation also publishes a weekly paper, "Bratstvo" 

 (Brotherhood) in the Slovenian language. Besides these pub- 

 lications there is also the "Dushpastyr" (The Pastor), published 

 in New York, which is exclusively a religious periodical and 

 devoted solely to the affairs of the Greek Catholic Church in 

 America. In it the official utterances of the Greek bishop are 

 usually published. There are also many other American Ru- 

 thenian papers and periodicals which have nothing whatever 

 to do with church matters, but are devoted to labor questions, 

 national issues and to Socialism. Unfortunately, many of 

 these publications, even the Catholic ones, exhibit too much of 

 a tendency to attack their opponents in strong language and 

 to belittle the efforts of those not of their party, and their 

 usefulness for good is thereby lessened. From time to time 

 various religious works and a number of booklets on church 

 and national topics have been published in Slovak and Ru- 

 thenian, and every year there are issued a number of year- 

 books or calendars containing a variety of information and 

 illustrations concerning the Ruthenian Greek Catholics in 

 America and abroad. 



The immigration of the Ruthenian Greek Catholics into the 

 United States and the organization of their churches and rite 

 has been too recent to properly speak by name of any distin- 

 guished representatives of their clergy or laity. Nearly every 

 one who took a prominent part in their settlement and develop- 

 ment is still alive and engaged in active work, while a vigorous 

 younger generation born on American soil is now growing up. 

 Among the Greek priests here in America are several who are 

 authors of learned works upon the church language and ritual, 

 others who have filled posts of considerable distinction in the 

 dioceses in Hungary and Galicia whence they came, and many 



