[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?

[Gingersnap]

"What are your reasons for your opinion?"

I agree that the Anglican-Use parishes are less "progressive" in liturgical tone and more traditional than many other types of RCC parishes (from what I've heard from friends, anyway).

My perspective comes from being part of a very Anglo-Catholic, high church sort of parish. We use the 1928 BCP so a rite more or less finalized in 1980 or doesn't seem wildly traditional to me. LOL!

Although some Anglo-Catholics do long for union with Rome, I'm not among them. Most of us are skeptical of the structure of Roman Catholicism and feel that there is not enough reliance on scripture. Then too there are doctrinal issues between us, some of which are weighty. Even where we do agree doctrinally, we disagree on approach.