The author is clueless. He wrote:
"I consider myself a Catholic Anglican."
No such thing nor is it possible.
"I am an Anglican by conviction, not a Roman who happens to be separated from the Holy See by an historical accident."
If you're an Anglican by conviction then you're a Protestant and not Catholic.
"I cannot in good conscience assent to the claims of universal ordinary jurisdiction and infallibility presently made by the Roman Pontiff, as much as I do admire the present incumbent as a man and a thinker."
Then again, you're not Catholic. You're a Protestant.
"(As I have said before, if some sort of accommodation on the Petrine office could be worked about between Rome and the Eastern Patriarchs, I suspect I could sign onto whatever they worked out between them. Let us pray, brothers and sisters.)"
So if the whole Church works to satisfy you you might agree with it? If that isn't proof that you're a Protestant than what could be?
As the Papal aphorist, Pope Leo XIII declared, we pronounce and declare that ordinations carried out according to the Anglican rite have been, and are, absolutely null and utterly void.
*And what does Pope Benedict think about that teaching? Just what you would expect him to think. Writing as the prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, then Cardinal Ratzinger...
With regard to those truths connected to revelation by historical necessity and which are to be held definitively, but are not able to be declared as divinely revealed, the following examples can be given: the legitimacy of the election of the Supreme Pontiff or of the celebration of an ecumenical council, the canonizations of saints (dogmatic facts), the declaration of Pope Leo XIII in the Apostolic Letter Apostolicae Curae on the invalidity of Anglican ordinations ...
*So, does it really make a difference that protestant laymen label themselves Catholic? To those who know the facts it does. In their favor though, it can be said that somewhere deep inside them the protestant laymen know the importance of others thinking them Catholic. If they didn't, why make the claim?
Such displays of the kind of arrogance your church (others too; yours is not alone) can breed in its natives ought to be a warning to others.