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Vestiges of Christianity is a news blog maintained under the direction of Bishop Bryan D. Ouellette, Ph.D., SOSM. Our goal is to reconcile ancient Christian theology with contemporary orthodox Christian practices and understandings. Our praxis carries with it a strong eastern liturgical focus while maintaining a freedom of spirituality that is true to ancient Christian ideology. We welcome anyone who desires to discover gnosis through the expression of early Christianity. We use the word "gnosis" with the intention to reflect its original meaning of soteriological knowledge, mystical wisdom and spiritual realization. While we encourage a working philosophical comprehension of Classical Gnosticism from antiquity, we are not a Gnostic or reconstructionist church. Our theology is orthodox, our approach, furthermore, is mystically liberating.

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Vestiges of Christianity ~ Why Independent Catholic Churches?


Bishop Bryan Ouellette discusses why he chose to become an "Independent Catholic" and what function such autocephalous Catholic churches serve. Many conventional Roman Catholics seem quite perplexed when then encounter the ISM (Independent Sacramental Movement). The immediate assumption is that such churches are not "really" Catholic. Some fear the authenticity of the clerical Orders held by their clergy, while yet others maintain that the Church of Rome holds a monopoly on the word "Catholic," stating that it alone can decide what or who the term can be applied to. 

These questions answered and more today on Vestiges of Christianity. 

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