ABSTRACT
Rome was not always content with the development of the American Church. In the case of the first, mainly male, Italian immigrants, the Pope was fearful that without attention of a culturally familiar kind, they would fall away from the faith. In 1889, Leo XIII sent Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini to provide welfare for the immigrants and to sustain their faith. Despite an initial rebuff from Archbishop Corrigan of New York, she eventually established schools, orphanages and charitable hospitals across the country.
