First-person essay by Agnes Howard, Author at PublicSource

A black and white photo of the front arched entrance of St. Mary's Help of Christians church in McKees Rocks with a wedding party spilling out onto the front steps

Old-world tensions, new beginnings: What I learned of Pittsburgh’s ethnic parishes from my Slovak Catholic grandmother.

by First-person essay by Agnes Howard January 31, 2022January 29, 2022

I’ll admit: ethnic rivalries grade the terrain of Pittsburgh Catholicism in ways hard for me to understand. I suspect I’m not alone. I suspect other descendants of Pittsburgh Catholic immigrants might relate.