I didn't know you were born in Bratislava! That's pretty !Tarspin wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 6:01 pmI was born in Bratislava, it's what I'm being told. One of the reasons they adopted the double cross into their flag. The eastern half of Slovakia has a really high percentage of Grecko-Orthodox "Catholics" whatever that means really.wap wrote: ↑Tue Oct 20, 2020 5:48 pm
I never heard that. I did not see any Orthodox churches when I was in Prague. I thought they were Catholics and Hussites. Those were the only churches I saw there or in Bratislava.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussites# ... ussites%20(Czech%3A%20Husit%C3%A9%20or,representative%20of%20the%20Bohemian%20Reformation.
Oohhhh! Eastern Rites Catholic. Got it. Ukraine is that as well. It's a weird hybrid of Catholicism and Orthodoxy. They follow all the rights and liturgies of the Orthodox Church, they follow our calendar, etc, yet still swear loyalty to the Pope instead of our Ecumenical Patriarch.