I think I do remember that when SS Pete’s opened by us, someone came to the house to get us to join there but my Mom told them we were Polish and that was that.
My parish St. Adalbert’s and the other parish in Berea, OH, St. Mary’s were both ethic parishes with long histories. Berea had quarries that attracted the Poles and Irish. When I was in 6th grade, we celebrated 100 years of our parish.
So maybe it’s an ethnic thing.
I’m going to be spending the 2nd week of November in Youngstown at the priory there. I’ll see if I can pick up some history of ethnic parishes and canons and stuff.
I attend a parish other than the one I’m registered in, and last week’s bulletin in the new parish (which I threw out just a few hours ago) had a letter from the pastor about geographical restrictions and getting permission from the bishop to register outside your proper parish. It can be done, but you need to have an actual reason. Also, you’re supposed to give your soon-to-be-former pastor the courtesy of notification of intent to re-register. Attendance at any parish is fine of course, but registration is different.