He co-founded the Center for Migration Studies and even wrote a book on the historic legacy of New York's Italian parishes.
She started an orphanage and an Italian national parish that still is functioning today, St. Donato's in West Philadelphia.
He eventually established the first Italian national parishes in the country for them.
There is today the Orthodox Archdiocese of Italy and several Italian parishes under other canonical authorities.
A comparative study of French, Italian and Swedish rural parishes (18th and early 19th century) in 1976.
His first parish, largely Irish and Italian when he arrived, turned mostly black by the late 1950's, following the flight of whites from the South Bronx.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel around the corner there, that was the biggest Italian parish in the world outside Rome.
In some Irish and Italian parishes, he said, the Maronites were forced to sit in the rear of the churches.
Insieme was originally founded by the Italian Catholic parishes of Montreal but has since been put under private ownership.
Holy Rosary was established in 1885, making it the first Italian parish in New Jersey.