You know, having had some interest in the Alexis Toth Affair (basically an East-West ecclesiastical conflict *in 19th Century Minnesota*) this article has made me wonder whether there wasn't a class component added to to the obvious ethnoreligious one. The general stereotype of the Irish-American population of that era was of being working-class, but Irish clergy of that era, certainly most hierarchs, tended to be at least lower-middle class, while Ruthenians tended to be new working-class arrivals - miners, navvies, construction workers and so on. The prospect of Ruthenian Catholics, working-class folk, having a separate sphere from the middle-class hierarchy may have made such a breakdown if not inevitable at least likely.