[Alkhin]

If I may, I'd like to interject that the ANGLICAN CATHOLIC CHURCH is very similar to the Roman Catholic, except with out the Marian emphasis and the Pope. We tend to straddle the High Church Episcopal and the Roman Catholic in our practices. Our focus is Benedictine in nature and very traditional, regal, and dignified. I find tremendous peace in this church.

["Bare Ruined Choirs"]

I might comment that the "Catholic" Church in England can be a very different kind of experience from what many encounter in the U.S. Some of the goofy aspects of the Catholic Church in the U.S. has a lot to do with certain apsects of American popular culture and liberal counter-culture which in the 1960s and 1970s ("in the Spirit of Vatican II")began to prey upon the clergy and take things in goofy and quite un-Catholic directions. Anyone who has been to Rome or traveled extensively in Europe will know what I mean. There is a dignity and solemnity to traditional Catholicism that is sometimes, shall we say, under-represented in the U.S.

[watsonfellow]

Yes, I recently attended the Service at St. Paul's for those recently killed in NYC and PA and DC...it was quite well done, bells and smells and all. I must say that I would prefer a High Anglican Service to a Modern, Sister Mary Sunshine leading everyone in Koombayay Mass anyday......except for the small little detail of transubstantiation....It would seem that the Anglicans never really seem to have a good answer for this.