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vary and spread throughout the world in every nation, land 

 and clime ; and we are Roman because we follow the Roman 

 Rite or form of worship and are always and everywhere united 

 with the See of Rome as the centre of union and of authority. 

 But, as the word Roman is not always coterminous with Cath- 

 olic, I, for my part, shall use the word Catholic throughout 

 my remarks. 



All Catholics are not of the Roman Rite, although they are 

 a!l in communion with the Holy See at Rome. We have some 

 10,000,000 Oriental Catholics — Greek Catholics, Armenian 

 Catholics, Maronite Catholics and others — who do not follow 

 the Roman Rite at all, but follow their own peculiar forms of 

 worship, yet their Faith is the same. As an example at our 

 very doors, we have in the City of New York, not only Roman 

 Catholics, but also Greek Catholics, Armenian Catholics and 

 Syrian Catholics, all united in one faith but differing in their 

 rites and ceremonies of worship. The Greek Orthodox 

 Church broke away from the unity of the Church nearly nine 

 hundred years ago, but all the Greeks did not go with them. 

 Many remained Catholics and many more returned to the faith. 

 In America, we have a flourishing Greek Catholic Church, 

 spread throughout the United States and twice as large as the 

 Greek Orthodox Church. The Greek Orthodox Church is 

 opposed to the Greek Catholic Church, although they both use 

 the same language and forms of worship. But the Catholic 

 Church, whether Greek or Roman in form of worship, is one 

 in faith and organization, while the Greek Orthodox differs in 

 faith and is separate in its organization. 



If we were asked suddenly to point to the one body which is 

 obviously the Church of Christ, a glance throughout the world 

 would show that it is the Catholic Church, for that looms 

 larger than any other Christian organization. If one were 

 asked what Church has given the greatest inspiration to art, 

 literature, poetry and romance, it would be none other than 

 the Catholic Church. High resolve, heroic deeds, knighthood, 

 chivalry, renunciation, prayer and sacrifice have their root in 

 its teachings, in which you will find the sole and constant fount 

 of inspiration for the pen, the brush or the chisel. Catholicism 

 is woven into the warp and the woof of all nations, all lan- 

 guages and all centuries since the advent of Christendom, and 

 has become part of the nearest and dearest to our hearts, 



