Group develops an identity outside Catholic Church

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By Jaclyn Pelletier/ Daily News Staff
Tuesday, January 3, 2006 - Updated: 12:47 AM EST

MAYNARD – It’s like clockwork, meeting every other Sunday at noon in a rented room of St. George’s Episcopal Church. Normally it is an intimate setting of 25 or so parishioners, all gathering for the same reason.

They are all members of the American Catholic Church, most of whose members have disassociated themselves from the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.

Although it is not affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, the American Catholic Church of New England bases its beliefs on most of the teachings of the Roman Catholic faith.

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I really wish the Pope could patent and control the use of the word ‘Catholic’ when it comes to official names, titles, etc.
 
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I really wish the Pope could patent and control the use of the word ‘Catholic’ when it comes to official names, titles, etc.
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I don’t think the Eastern Orthodox would look too kindly on that proposal.😃
 
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Good. I can call myself Ford, that doesn’t make me an automobile.

AJC:D
 
The article was interesting, but we must understand Doctrine here. It says that this American Church believes in the seven sacraments. But it cannot carry out 2 of the sacraments because it is Doctrine that Priests can only be men.(Holy Orders). And with Woman priests in the American Church, Transubstanation cannot be performed. Which denys the full Grace of the Eucharist in which an ordained Priest from the Roman Catholic Church must perform.
 
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Sounds like just another protestant sect, although I agree that the name Catholic is misleading and could lead to some confusion to the unwary.
 
good riddance! The less cafeteria Catholics we have the better. At least with a name like “American Catholic Church” you can smell them a mile away.
 
I find it ironic that, as a seperate ecclesiastical body, they’ve elected to rent space/time from the local Episcopal church. Why don’t they just BECOME Episcopalians?!?!?
 
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I find it ironic that, as a seperate ecclesiastical body, they’ve elected to rent space/time from the local Episcopal church. Why don’t they just BECOME Episcopalians?!?!?
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Fore not becoming Epsicopalian, I guess they just don’t want to be identified as being Protestants. Yet at the same time they don’t want to be tied down by Rome’s rules, but in essence that is Protestantism though perhaps minus a strict adherance to Sola Scriptura…
 
Didn’t the American Catholic Church break away from the Church following Vatican I? I seem to remember that they disagreed on Papal infallibility.
 
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Didn’t the American Catholic Church break away from the Church following Vatican I? I seem to remember that they disagreed on Papal infallibility.
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I think those were “Old Catholics.”
 
I feel sorry for all these people. Don’t they realize that the “narrow gate” is the Magisterial teaching of the Church, which so few are completely faithful to. 😦
 
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I feel sorry for all these people. Don’t they realize that the “narrow gate” is the Magisterial teaching of the Church, which so few are completely faithful to. 😦
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Apparently not. 😦
 
If someone wants to leave the Catholic Church and join a group which vaguely imitates the Church, I feel sad for them but it is their choice.

But this quote makes me wonder how many folks are being misled:
Burke said that unlike the Roman Catholic Church that has an “ideal of Christian life,” the American Catholic Church accepts everyone regardless of their mistakes.
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The Catholic Church does accept everyone, regardless of their mistakes. Its not like some Protestant churches which will deny membership to individuals who they deride as living a life of sin. We all sin - its part of the human condition - but we are called to lead a better life… one according to the Christian ideal. And what better way to learn how to live this life than with the support of the Church?

I pray that Burke doesn’t mislead anyone which his erroneous belief, and that he might come to realize his error.
 
Several years ago, in the area in which I live, there was a group who were members of the “American Catholic Church”. They had a female "priest ", and accepted homosexual marriage.

They were in the area for a little over a year, and then they were gone.
 
Just ignore them. They are not Catholics as much as they want to say they are. Catholicism requires union with Rome and the Bishops in Communion with the Holy See.

Actually it’s not totally inaccurate to say they split after Vat I. A lot of these American Catholic Churches or Liberal Catholic Churches are affiliated with the Union of Utrecht. What’s weird is I have read some of these libs have a Mass that is VERY old school and traditional, basically the Tridentine in the vernacular, and it puts a lot of Roman Churches to shame in this country. But what they advocate is oftentimes morally wrong.
 
" Currently, the American Catholic Church has approximately 80 to 100 parishioners. Besides Maynard, faith communities are located in Fall River, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Illinois and California. "

I’m not too worried about them taking over. :rolleyes:zz1`
 
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If someone wants to leave the Catholic Church and join a group which vaguely imitates the Church, I feel sad for them but it is their choice.

But this quote makes me wonder how many folks are being misled:

The Catholic Church does accept everyone, regardless of their mistakes. Its not like some Protestant churches which will deny membership to individuals who they deride as living a life of sin. We all sin - its part of the human condition - but we are called to lead a better life… one according to the Christian ideal. And what better way to learn how to live this life than with the support of the Church?

I pray that Burke doesn’t mislead anyone which his erroneous belief, and that he might come to realize his error.
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I don’t agree. Burke was just doing his job, let him go. Burke excommunicates a parish and people automatically they call him an inquisitor. I’m sorry you don’t except the word of God word for word.
 
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