[Gingersnap]

"That doesn't mean that the high-Church Anglicans can be reconciled with the Catholic Church, especially since there are several Anglican-Use Catholic parishes in the U.S."

I'm aware of the Anglican-Use parishes but they are just a shell of contemporary Anglican language and ritual overlaid on the standard American model of Catholicism. There is much to admire in Roman Catholicism but there is much that is also troubling to this Anglican.

The American version of the Catholic church seems to be on an inexorable slide toward "progressive" theology and doctrine. This is exactly what happened to the ECUSA. Having jumped one sinking ship 20 years ago, I'd be leery of boarding another that is ripping itself apart on the very same iceberg.

At least it looks that way from the outside, LOL!

[Pyro7480]

I'm aware of the Anglican-Use parishes but they are just a shell of contemporary Anglican language and ritual overlaid on the standard American model of Catholicism.

You really think so? Other than parishes with Tridentine Masses, there are no other Catholic churches in the U.S. other than the Anglican Use where the priest says the Mass ad orientem (with his back to the congregation), and where their new churches are built in a traditional style. What are your reasons for your opinion?

[AnAmericanMother]

I'm afraid you are misinformed. I have actually seen one of the Anglican Use Masses (via DVD from one of the parishes in Texas).

They do NOT use "contemporary Anglican language" - they use the old prayerbook (I don't know for sure if it's the 1928 or an earlier version, but I think it's actually the 1559 which was the most Catholic of the early BCPs), with the Words of Consecration translated from the Latin in use in England just before the Reformation. The service is as High as I have ever seen -- full vestments, incense, celebrated ad orientem with the greatest reverence -- just about as far from happy-clappy liberal Catholic services as you can get.