United Greek Catholic Recognition
By Editor
WITHIN recent years many immigrants from Central Europe, belonging to the United Greek Catholic Church, have been coming to this country, and accompanied by their priests they have established churches of their faith. There has been, however, some question as to their recognition by the Roman Catholic Church, inasmuch as they maintained the right of their priests to marry and to say mass in some other than the Latin language. At the time of their return to the Roman Catholic Church in Europe, the pope gave permission for them to continue these customs, but the ecclesiastical authorities in this country hesitated about acknowledging them. Accordingly Bishop O'Farrell, of the Diocese of Trenton, where there is a congregation of this body numbering about two hundred, sent to Rome for instructions as to his relations to the pastor, the Rev. John Zebo, who has a wife and child. Recently instructions have come from the Propaganda instructing the bishop to recognize the priests of the United Greek Catholic Church as good Catholics. Similar authority has been granted to every Catholic bishop in this country in whose diocese there is at present a priest or congregation of that church.—N. Y. Independent. Rome is making a wonderful display of liberality in the United States just now, as also toward republicanism in France. The sequel will show that it is the old story of "Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly."