St. Jude Seminary, St. Ephrim Institute and the Pontifica Universitas Lateranensis

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  1. oxpecker

    oxpecker New Member

  2. uncle janko

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    All fake.

    Also, this degenerate person is most emphatically not a real Old Catholic in communion with the Archbishop of Utrecht. The only organized Old Catholic body in the US is the Polish National Catholic Church, founded in 1897, whose headquarters and unaccredited Savonarola Seminary are in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The PNCC is a reputable denomination with perhaps 200 churches, a largely married priesthood, and organized into several dioceses in the US and Canada. Their published statistics were grossly out of date for some decades, and I don't know what the current figures are.

    If you want to find out more about spurious "Old Catholics", do a search using the term "episcopi vagantes" for some old posts of mine on this topic. IIRC, the comically inept doctoral dissertation of one such person helped reveal Golden State School of Theology for the bad joke it is.

    I hasten to add that not all spurious "Old Catholic" clergy are paedophiles and degenerates, but a surprising number of them are. Many of the rest have lonely dreams of grandeur and a weird love for ecclesiastical millinery and titles, whiling away their time by dressing up in impressive robes and odd headgear, and repeatedly consecrating one another as bishops, archbishops, catholicoi, metropolitans, and possibly subways. Some are actually quite genuine protesters against what they see as the wrongs of some other church. But very, very few have real congregations of more than a handful, and no spurious "Old Catholic" denomination with a verifiable membership of more than a few dozens (!) of adherents can be found.
     

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