How Italian Americans Changed the American Catholic Church

This is a very nice read at the Deacon's Bench What the Italians taught the American Church . A little bit of our American Catholic history.

In my neck of the woods, northern Louisiana,there is a much more Italian Influence than lets say French or even Irish it seems. The Italian influence in the southern USA Church is quite profound. One is struck that when one goes into the Delta of Mississippi ho many Italians there are. Again they pop up where you least expect them