Stories: Orthodox and RCs growing up together upstate in the 1950s
As I like to say, although they’re clear on who they are, unlike the converts they also acknowledge all they have in common and don’t have a chip on their shoulder about the other side

The ‘Living Church’ mentioned in one entry was a Soviet front group in 1920s Russia that won a few property fights in America which is why some churches are in the small Patriarchal Parishes group (not a diocese — it’s complicated) today (such as their cathedral, St Nicholas in New York).

Labels: Eastern Orthodoxy, history, Pennsylvania, the Catholic faith