Breakaway parish mulls joining the Episcopalians

c. 2013 St. Louis Post-Dispatch

ST. LOUIS (RNS) A breakaway Catholic church that stood up to three Catholic bishops, weathered a decade-long legal fight and embraced doctrine far afield from its Roman roots is now on the verge of becoming a parish in the Episcopal Church.

Missouri Episcopal Bishop George Wayne Smith said St. Stanislaus Kostka Church may be “coming into union” with his diocese. Under such an arrangement, Smith said, the historically Polish church would have the flexibility to retain its own rites.