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This group is very untraditional. They have a very weird attitude toward the theological status of their founders, a very heterodox eschatology, they "ordain" women and have a laxer position on contraception than the Vatican.

They still use the Tridentine Rite, but they resemble in many ways a certain strain of High Church Anglicans who love ritual and vestments and incense and the trappings of liturgy while ignoring doctrinal orthodoxy. The kind of people who would say the Rosary for aesthetic reasons but who would not be overly doctrinaire on the question of whether Our Lord's Virgin Birth actually happened.

Ooohhh. I went into this beautiful little religious store and saw books and statues and holy cards that I hadn't seen in years. I was thrilled! It was weird though... we were in there maybe 15 minutes and I put down the items I was going to buy and took my kids outta there - I told them something was weird but I couldn't put my finger on it - it was a "feeling" I had. But I noticed a small pamphlet rack on my way out and grabbed a pamphlet that had a picture of a nun on it dressed the same way as the nun behind the register. When we got back to the hotel room later on, I read all about them "we have our own hierarchy" and I was so happy I hadn't spent any money in there.

When I got home a few days later, I looked them up on the web. Talk about deceptive advertising... no mention of ordaining women or the other things you mention - wasn't in their printed literature, either.

Ya just never know.