Has anyone heard of Ecumenical Catholic Communion

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What a filthy offshoot of Mother Church! I’d come down hard on them and completely buy out their building of sin!

Leading souls astray from Mother Church’s true teachings and rules! How dare they!

Them and the sedevacantists destroying Her true message…
 
Jbrady said:
No more so than the much more numerous schismatic sedevacantist and conclavist groups, or the SSPX.
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I don’t support them either.
I hope your “no more so…” comment didn’t suggest that any of us did, because to my knowledge none of the people posting in this thread are sede supporters.
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As I said above, the word “Catholic” is not a trademark
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To me this is extremely unfortunate that it is not protected by IP law.
I have seen websites of so-called “Anglo-Catholic” churches that looked so much like actual RC churches that if you were not super familiar with Catholicism, you could easily be misled into attending there. I also read that a group of foreign students actually did mistakenly attend some Anglo-Catholic church for a time thinking it was in communion with Rome.

Those who mislead are committing a very grave sin.
 
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Tis_Bearself said:
Those who mislead are committing a very grave sin.
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On what basis are you accusing them of misleading anybody? I see no reason to conclude that they are calling themselves Catholic out in order to deceive, rather than that they genuinely consider themselves inheritors of the Catholic tradition. They may be wrong about that, but that’s very far from willful deception.
 
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They know very well they are being deceptive and hoping to lure actual Catholics. They weren’t born yesterday. I don’t care what they think about their tradition - unless they have a disclaimer on the front of their page saying “We are not in communion with the Vatican” then they’re misleading people by using the word “Catholic”.

P.S. Not interested in getting into an argument about this, and I have said my piece, so I am now muting. Have a nice day.
 
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They do acknowledge they do not follow canon law, but if you were driving by the church from the outside you would think they were a regular Catholic church.
 
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but if you were driving by the church from the outside you would think they were a regular Catholic church.
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If you’re talking about St. Anthony’s in Detroit, that might have something to do with the fact that the building was once a regular Catholic church. It was closed, and the ECC bought it.
Besides, a lot of Protestant Churches look like regular Catholic churches.
 
I just found out there is a second one in our
metropolitan area. They identify as Catholic communities and they do perform same sex
marriages.
They seem to be the answer to those who want the Catholic church to conform to their
“progressive” lifestyles ".
I imagine our bishop does not like to see these communities sprout up.
 
7_Sorrows said:
I imagine our bishop does not like to see these communities sprout up.
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I highly doubt that this keeps him up at night, or that it’s among the first 1000 items on his to-do list. He’s got bigger fish to fry.

He’s probably never even heard of them, and wouldn’t waste a thought on them if he did. After all, there’s nothing he could do.

I really don’t understand your reaction to this. It seems to be rather overblown from my perspective.
 
We have a very good bishop and I am sure this is something he is very aware of.

He does not want any of his flock led astray by what this community offers.

I would not call my reaction overblown.
A lack of concern is more troubling to me.
 
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They are not Catholic. They are either a sect of the “Old Catholic Church” (which broke from Rome after Vatican I), or some post Vatican II schismatic sect.
 
Or a group that wants the externals and rituals of Catholicism while not adhering to any of its precepts… that’s actually what they’ve defined themselves as.
 
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As others have said- there are a multitude of splinter “catholic” groups. Many traditionalist and some of the liberal bent. They are all leading people astray.

We should pray for them
 
Tis_Bearself said:
To me this is extremely unfortunate that it is not protected by IP law.
I have seen websites of so-called “Anglo-Catholic” churches that looked so much like actual RC churches that if you were not super familiar with Catholicism, you could easily be misled into attending there. I also read that a group of foreign students actually did mistakenly attend some Anglo-Catholic church for a time thinking it was in communion with Rome.
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I don’t know about this…

There is an Old Catholic Church down the road from me. They used to be in another town but moved into an old Lutheran Church (which is down the road from me) a few years ago.

Their sign used to just say “Catholic Church.”

However, not too long ago, they put up a new sign that reads (in smaller print) “An Old Catholic Community.”

I think the Archdiocese may have threaten to sue them. And while it may or may not of held up in court, these small schismatic sects typically don’t have the money to afford litigation against a Roman Catholic diocese.

So if I’m right, a simple cease and desist letter from the Archdiocese’s Attorneys made the Old Catholic Church in my area emphasize the “Old Catholic” on their sign.

God Bless
 
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Feanor2 said:
As others have said- there are a multitude of splinter “catholic” groups. Many traditionalist and some of the liberal bent. They are all leading people astray.

We should pray for them
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Just as FYI - today, most of the splinter groups are liberal and not traditional.
 
Salibi said:
Sedevacantists?
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What about them? Sure they exist. But the number of liberal splinter groups outnumber the number of Sedevacantist groups.

Now, I don’t know which side has more lay followers, but there are more liberal “Catholic” denominations than there are unique Sedevacantist groups

God Bless
 
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Many groups use the name Catholic. A person has to be aware of who they they are and what they believe. In my area we have Roman Catholic Women Priests. They sound very Catholic but have no connection to the Church.
 
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