St. Mark Old Roman Catholic Church
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Who Are We?
St.Mark's is the cathedral parish of the Old Roman Catholic Diocese of Michigan and the Central States and is part of the Old Roman Catholic Church in North America. The Old Roman Catholic Church descends from the Cathoic Old Diocese of Utrecht which was granted autonomy from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Eugene III (1145AD) and Pope Leo X in 1520, when Pope Leo granted the Church of Utrecht the right to adjudicate its own affairs without reference to the Roman Curia. In 1908, Gerardus Gul, Archbishop of Utrecht consecrated Fr. A.H. Mathew to the episcopacy for work in the United Kingdom. Bishop Mathew left the Utrecht Union of Churches in 1910 because of doctrinal differences with the continental Old Catholic Churches and adopted the designation: Old Roman Catholic Church. The Church was organized in North America in 1916 with the consecration of Fr. C.H. Carfora to the episcopacy by the Prince Bishop E.de Landes Berghes.
Our Faith and Practices
The Old Roman Catholic Church preaches and teaches the Faith of the Historic, Undivided Catholic Church and subscribes to the Vincentian Canon articulated by St. Vincent of Lerins in the 5th Century. We hold that the Pope, the Bishop of Rome is Successor to St. Peter, Prince of Apostles and acknowledge his leadership in the sense of the Historic,Undivided Church. Though autonomous from Roman jurisdiction, we acknowledge the Holy Father as Patriarch of the West. In the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass we, at St. Mark's celebrate the Tridentine Mass in both English and Latin and permit celebration of the New Rite of Mass for those accustomed to worshipping that manner. We welcome all sincere persons desiring to practice their Catholic Faith and support and defend the ancient Catholic Principle of Primacy of Conscience for all members of the Body of Christ. As Catholics of the ultrajectine tradition, we recognize the Church's teaching magisterium has no less than two objects: formation of conscience in which case authority has an instructive quality; and the nurturing of a formed conscience to full maturity, in which case authority is guiding but not directive. Suppression of conscience is antithetical to the maturation of conscience and we conclude the coercive authoritarianism which precedes suppression is both obstructive to spiritual growth and demeaning to man's dignity. It is never justified.
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