Old Catholics

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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These statements are all well authenticated in many legends that are among the most trustworthy legends the good old Catholic monks preserve.

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She remembered -- betwixt a smile and a shudder -- the talk of the neighbouring townspeople, who, seeking vainly elsewhere for the child's paternity, and observing some of her odd attributes, had given out that poor little Pearl was a demon offspring: such as, ever since old Catholic times, had occasionally been seen on earth, through the agency of their mother's sin, and to promote some foul and wicked purpose.

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Those in full communion with the Union of Utrecht Old Catholics are the Anglican Communion and the Philippine Independent Church.

Catholic women's ordination: the ecumenical implications of women deacons in the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Orthodox Church of Greece, and the Union of Utrecht Old Catholic Churches *

This was the background to the rise of the Old Catholics and the democratic liberal movements.

"Long live Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and Dynamite:" (1) the German bourgeoisie and the constructing of popular liberal and national-socialist subcultures in marginal Germany

Weren't the Protestants supposed to be the up-and-coming, progressive, force vis-a-vis the musty old Catholics? And if we were supposed to root for the Protestants in our high school history texts, shouldn't we be applauding the Islamic "extremists" now?

Christian Wahhabists. (Flip Side)

The story on Old Catholics (page 5) is not intended to lure anyone away from the mainline church.

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The sacramentality of the eucharist, and its salvific function, are found in the following statement: "The eucharist represents the whole work of the divine economy in Christ that has its climax in his sacrifice on the cross and in his resurrection."(32) Thus for the authors of the text the eucharist becomes the binding principle that holds the local churches together in faith and practice.(33) It appears to me that Old Catholics and Orthodox seem to agree upon a eucharistic ecclesiology as expressed in these statements.

Old Catholic-Orthodox agreed statements on ecclesiology: reflection for a paradigm shift in contemporary ecumenism

Old Catholics have lurked at the edge of Christian life for more than a century.

Old Catholics seek identity at the margins

And for us old Catholics who have not been trained for such, we might simply have to breathe deep and just do it.

Why the preferential option for the poor is not optional

When Sigisbert Kraft was elected bishop of the Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany in 1986, he took as his motto "Christus Spes," from the first letter to Timothy.

Christus Spes: Liturgie und Glaube im okumenischen Kontext - Festschrift fur Bischof Sigisbert Kraft

The highly sensitive ordinations are opposed by Old Catholics in the United States and likely to prompt a schism within the 125-year-old international union, according to Bishop John F.

Bishop ordains two women for Old Catholics

It would disclose that Leonard believes that his ordinations as a priest in 1948 and as bishop in 1964 were valid because Old Catholics were involved.