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In this issue
Metropolitan Musings 1
From the Provincial Office of
Communications and Media Relations 2
Prayer Requests 3
Joseph Vilatte - Father of American Old
Catholicism 3
Consecration and Ordinations 12
Welcome! 14
Learning Notes 15
Share and support this newsletter 15
Vestment Exchange 15
Support the National Church 15
Feisty Frying Friar 15Third Quarter Saints Word Search 17
Fourth Quarter Newsletter Deadline:
August 25th
Volume 1 Number 1 Third Quarter 2012
Metropolitan Musings
Grace and Peace,
I am pleased to write you all on this Feast of
Pentecost, the Birthday of the Church. As a
branch of the One, Holy, Catholic andApostolic Church, we preserve and pass on
to the world the fullness of the teaching of
Jesus Christ through Apostolic Tradition,
Holy Scripture and the Sacred Sacraments
entrusted to us. Continuing to persevere in
the spreading of the Good News, defense of
the least, lost and forgotten and standing as
sentinels on the walls, we are ever guided
and refreshed in our ministries through thepower of the Holy Spirit. The action of the
Holy Spirit leads us into all truth and
empowers us to endure for the sake of
Christ, carrying our crosses each day as we
witness the power of Christ in us and the
ever present revelation of the kingdom of
God.
As a Church, we must maintain faith withour traditions, all that makes us truly
Catholic whilst being relevant to the
societies in which we live. This is not an
easy task, but one we are called by Christ to
accomplish. Be in the world and not of it
we are admonished. So we are asked to
enter fully into our humanity, into what
makes us living persons, accepting and
embracing the good and the bad within
ourselves. By celebrating the good and
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redeeming the bad the power of Christ and
the Holy Spirit enables us to work out our
salvation and makes of us a pleasant
offering to the Lord. No Saint of God ever
ran from the sinful nature within them;rather, they embraced it, allowing Christ to
redeem it, buying it back and consecrating it
to the Lord, making them a whole and
pleasing offering. Please note, I have not
said accept the sinful within us, rather
embrace it so that it might be redeemed by
the all cleansing and restoring sacrifice of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
In a similar way, we are called to live in the
world and to become salt and leaven,
causing an acceptable, redemptive change
in the place we find ourselves. In each
situation we are to bring the light of Christ,
the presence of Christ and in many cases to
recognize Christ's presence in a person or
situation. In this way we cause change by
allowing the Holy Spirit to bring life into thesituations Christ has lead us. Christ
especially in our own hearts, then in our
homes, in the work place, the schools, the
neighborhoods, the streets, markets and
the Church!
We, as a Province have much to do! Our call
is to be a mission people, spreading the
good news of Christ Jesus in every aspect ofour lives through our actions; may they
speak more loudly than our words! We are
growing; we are receiving letters of inquiry
each week and are pleased to see growing
interest in our Church. Bishop Godsey
works tirelessly on the website and as our
Communications Director; we thank him
with all our hearts. Bishop Ted and Deacon
Bill recently attended the Ordination of Fr.
Myke Beckett the Fr. Protector of the RCCDominican Order and the Ordination of our
beloved brother Friar Phil Gerboc to the
Holy Priesthood. We are grateful to them
for taking the time and expense to attend
this important event. Throughout this
Season of Pentecost, which focuses on the
growth of the Church, we too should focus
on Church growth. I encourage each of you
to pray about your ministries. Considervolunteering at a shelter or food pantry,
starting a bible study group, prayer group or
working for social change in your
communities. In this way we bring the
message of Christ to a world in need, one
person at a time.
Remember that YOU are the CHURCH!
Christ is alive in you and working througheach of you to bring His love to the world.
This is how they will know the Father has
sent each of you, that you LOVE one
another. Let the hallmark of our Church be
our mutual love and service to each other!
God Bless you all,
+Edmund
From the Provincial Office of
Communications and Media
Relations
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website, shields and logos for the Province
as well as internal and external
communications. Please remember, if
contacted by the media do not lie to them.
It is better to say that you do not know butwill find out and get back to them then to
make something up.
You can find the interim guidelines for
dealing with Public Relations at the clergy
only section of the OCAC USA website
located at http://www.lcacusa.org.
Should you have any questions or concerns,
my staff and I stand ready to assist you.
God bless!
+Gregory
Prayer Requests
Please keep the following intentions in your
prayers. Please send any prayer request to
prayers@lcacusa.org.
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Bishop Gregory Godsey Continued healing
Bishop Edmund Cass for the strength to
lead the church
Bishop Adrian Glover for wisdom and
strength to lead the church
Bishop Cass Cousin Frannie Healing
Joseph Vilatte - Father of AmericanOld Catholicism
The last several months have been
interesting to say the least! We are happy
to announce the consecration of our new
Metropolitan Bishop, The Right Rev. Aaron
Edmund Newton Cass and the consecrationof the new Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese
of Saint Bartholomew (NC & VA), The Right
Rev. Edward (Ted) Wooldridge. These two
gentlemen deserve our support and prayers
as they continue to lead the US church.
I am also pleased to announce the
ordination of Friar Philip Gerboc to the
priesthood. Many will remember that Friar
Father Philip Gerboc was unable to attend
the consecration due to his health, but God
had something bigger and better in the
works for Fr. Gerboc. He was able to help
cement the relationship we have with The
Most Rev. John Bell and the Reformed
Catholic Church by being ordained at one of
their churches in Ohio.
As the Director of the Provincial Office ofCommunications and Media Relations it is
my job to release the Provincial newsletter
each quarter. It is a monumental task that
will only grow as we grow. I ask that each
and every one of you take a few moments
each quarter to send me articles and
pictures to use in the newsletter. It is your
help that will make this newsletter a
success. As we grow, and as the need arises,we may make this a monthly newsletter.
But as they say, we will cross that bridge
when we come to it.
It is also my job to prepare certificates,
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being informed that he would need to serve
in the armed forces for seven years, he
moved to Belgium, joining the Congregation
of the Christian Brothers at Namur.
However, he decided to try for the secularpriesthood and once again immigrated to
Canada in 1876.
Vilatte envisioned a Church beyond
denominations:
"I visited the various families and
urged them to ignore their doctrinal
differences for the present and unitein one Community Church. I felt I
could preach nothing but the Gospel
of Grace; that neither Roman
Catholicism nor Protestantism could
satisfy the needs of these people
but a Christian Catholic Church
without any other qualification. A
purified Church which would
present the Gospel to them as didthe Primitive Church, and exercise
authority according to the spirit of
free America." Rene Vilatte,
Autobiography, 1910
In Canada he studied with the Congregation
of the Holy Cross Fathers at the College of
St. Laurent in Montreal, until, about three
years later, he met a former RomanCatholic priest turned Presbyterian
minister, Charles Chiniquy, who persuaded
him to turn Protestant. Chiniquy introduced
Vilatte to a Protestant pastor who helped
him to get admission to McGill University.
Archbishop Joseph Ren Vilatte (24 January
1854 - 8 July 1929) was, at different times,
a Roman Catholic, Presbyterian,
Episcopalian, Russian Orthodox and
Jacobite. He is best known, however, for his
activities as an Old Catholic cleric.
Vilatte was born in Paris to French parents
hailing from the Maine region and who
belonged to the Petite Eglise, a sect formed
by so-called rigorist Catholics angry with
the Holy See and the dioceses for signing or
accepting the Concordat of 1801, which in
their eyes was a betrayal of the Catholic
Church and an heretical liberal compromise
with the French revolutionaries of 1789.
Vilatte was baptized as an infant by a
layman as the sect had become priestless.
His mother died soon after his birth and he
was raised in a Parisian orphanage operated
by the Brothers of the Christian Schools
after having been conditionally baptized. He
finally converted to Roman Catholicism and
was accepted into the Roman Catholic
Church in 1867.
Around the 1870s, Vilatte decided to
immigrate to Canada where, near Ottawa,
he worked as a catechist in a small school.
After two years he returned to France, but
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After two years, however, Vilatte once
again reconciled with the Roman Catholic
Church and entered the Clerics of Saint
Viator at Bourbonnais, Illinois. Here he once
again met Chiniquy, who told him ofFranco-Belgian Catholics in North-East
Wisconsin who wished to integrate with the
American mainstream as Protestants.
Chiniquy also introduced Vilatte to another
former Roman Catholic, Hyacinthe Loyson,
formerly a Carmelite who had been
excommunicated in 1869 after marrying an
American widow and founding the "Gallican
Catholic Church". Under the inspiration ofChiniquy and Loyson, Vilatte moved to
the Green Bay area of Wisconsin as a
Presbyterian minister.
As Vilatte was not able to make much
headway with the Franco-Belgian
immigrants, after a few months of trying
and at the advice of Loyson, he turned
to John Henry Hobart Brown, the EpiscopalBishop of Fond du Lac for support. Vilatte
suggested to Brown that his (Vilatte's)
Presbyterian mission should be taken over
by the Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac as
an Old Catholic outpost. Brown seized on
this as a means of building a bridge with the
Old Catholics in Europe and agreed to
support Vilatte.
At the same time Loyson, who had
migrated to France, wrote to Vilatte to
come over and be ordained a priest
by Eduard Herzog, the Old Catholic Bishop
of Berne, Switzerland, as a first step in
founding the Old Catholic Church in North
America. With the support and
encouragement of Brown and his fellow
Episcopal bishops, Vilatte then traveled to
France where Herzog ordained him to thediaconate and priesthood on 6 and 7 June
1885.
In 1888 Brown, who had supported Vilatte
morally and financially, died and was
succeeded by Charles C. Grafton. Grafton,
unlike Brown, did not favor Vilatte and
conflicts soon arose. In order to correct the
canonical situation created by Brown,Grafton demanded that Vilatte surrender
ownership of his missions to the diocese,
which had paid for them in the first place;
Vilatte complied in August 1890. Despite
this, however, the relationship between the
two deteriorated fast.
At the heart of the dispute was the
conflicting vision for Vilatte's missions heldby Vilatte and Grafton. Vilatte hoped that
Grafton would continue Brown's policy of
financing these missions in the hope of
converting Roman Catholics to non-papal
Old Catholicism and of using these missions
as a springboard to founding the Old
Catholic Church in North America. Grafton,
on the contrary, wished to integrate these
missions into his Episcopal diocese.
Adding to the dispute was Vilatte's refusal
to break with the Franco-Belgians' adamant
rejection of Anglican orders as invalid, while
accepting the validity of Old Catholic
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orders; an attitude carried from Roman
Catholicism. Brown had been willing to
countenance this but Grafton took this as
an affront to the legitimacy of his own
orders as a bishop.
In the meantime Herman Jan Heykamp, the
archbishop of the Ultrajectines in the
Netherlands, hearing of Vilatte's difficulties
with Grafton, wrote to him to disassociate
himself from Episcopalians. In reply, Vilatte
asked whether the Ultrajectines would
consecrate him as the Old Catholic bishop
for North America. When Grafton wasinformed of these developments he wrote
to the Ultrajectines that he would not
oppose their consecrating Vilatte as
a coadjutor Episcopal bishop for the Fond
du Lac diocese, but if Vilatte was
consecrated as the Old Catholic bishop for
North America, he (Grafton) would no
longer support him and without his
financial support Vilatte would be anobody.
As the Ultrajectines of the Netherlands and
the Old Catholics of Germany and
Switzerland delayed answering Vilatte until
they had met in their congress at Cologne,
Vilatte next sought to affiliate himself with
the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). To this
end he began correspondence with ROCBishop Vladimir of Alaska and the Aleutian
Islands. He also opened negotiations to
reconcile with the Roman Catholic Church.
When Grafton learned of these
developments he published warnings to
Episcopalians to stop supporting Vilatte. He
also demanded from Vilatte that he cease
operating from the Old Catholic missions
owned by the Episcopal diocese. In
response Vilatte announced in September1890 that he was severing relations with
the Episcopal Church and founded a new
independent mission near Green Bay.
Probably due to Grafton's letters, the Old
Catholic Congress of Cologne informed
Vilatte that they would not consecrate him
as the Old Catholic bishop for North
America. Isolated by both the Episcopaliansand the Old Catholics-Ultrajectines, Vilatte
turned once again to the ROC Bishop
Vladimir of Alaska who, in May 1891,
publicly announced that Vilatte was
accepted by the ROC as a priest and under
its jurisdiction.
At the same time an associate of Vilatte,
another former Roman Catholic cleric andmissionary in British India, Augustine
Harding, advised Vilatte to seek
consecration from a church recently formed
by former Goan Catholics in Goa and British
India under the leadership of Fr. Antonio
Francisco Xavier Alvares and Lisboa e Pinto;
Alvares being consecrated as Mar Julious I,
the Latin Rite Jacobite bishop for this sect,
by the Jacobites of Antioch and the MalabarCoast. Collecting $225 and being elected
bishop by his small flock (according to the
records of the Episcopal Diocese of Fond du
Lac, Vilatte had about 500 adherents),
Vilatte sailed to Colombo in Ceylon where
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Alvares and two other Jacobite bishops
consecrated him with the permission of the
Jacobite Patriarch of Antioch as Mar
Timotheous I, Jacobite Old Catholic Bishop
of North America on 29 May 1892; Dr.Lisboa e Pinto, acting as the U.S. Consul,
attested to the consecration. When news of
this reached North America the Episcopal
Church excommunicated Vilatte.
In 1893 Vilatte had a booth at the World
Parliament of Religions in Chicago, although
he had not been invited. Shortly thereafter,
reduced to penury, Vilatte traveled the EastCoast offering the sacraments to, and
soliciting monetary aid from, Episcopalians
and Roman Catholics, but was rebuffed; in
some places he was driven away by the
Franco-Belgian Catholics. Then he once
again opened negotiations with the Roman
Catholic Church for reconciliation. In March
1894 he approached Archbishop Satolli,
the Apostolic Delegate to the USA, whowrote to the Bishop Messmer (Roman
Catholic) of Green Bay that Vilatte was
ready to reconcile. Three weeks later
Vilatte himself wrote to Messmer that he
was preparing his people for reconciliation.
Further correspondence took place with
Satolli and Messmer. In August 1894 Satolli
advised Messmer to finance Vilatte's
journey to Rome and that the CongregationPropaganda Fide (Sacred Congregation for
the Propagation of the Faith) would refund
him the money.
However, in spite of the offer of a journey
to Rome at the expense of the Diocese of
Green Bay, Vilatte continued to waver.
Matters dragged on for almost four years.
Eventually both Archbishop Satolli and
Bishop Messmer realized that Vilatte wouldnot submit to Rome.
At this time Vilatte began his dalliance with
Polish Roman Catholics who, dissatisfied
with non-Polish Roman Catholic priests,
sought to set up an independent Catholic
church at the urgings of the priests Anthony
Kazlowski and Francis Hodur, eventually
founding the Polish National CatholicChurch in the United States independent
from Rome. In 1894, Fr. Kolaszewski invited
him to dedicate a church in Cleveland.
Anthony Kazlowski obtained consecration
from the Dutch Ultrajectines (Old Catholics
in Holland) on 17 November 1897. After
Kazlowski's consecration, Vilatte was
approached by a Father Stephen Kaminski,pastor of the Roman Catholic Parish of the
Holy Mother of the Rosary, Buffalo, New
York, to raise him to the episcopate. This
priest had failed to persuade the Old
Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht to raise him
to the episcopate. Vilatte arrived in Buffalo
on 21 March 1898, and consecrated
Kaminski. However, the new bishop fled the
United States to Canada because ofcreditors. He was excommunicated by
Rome and he abandoned Vilatte.
After the consecration in Buffalo, Vilatte
sailed from New York to England, to meet
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Flemming, Defender General of the Friars
Minor and Consulter of the Congregation of
the Holy Office, issued a statement to the
effect that Joseph Rene Vilatte had
expressed his most sincere and heartfeltregret for having taught many errors and
for having attacked and misrepresented the
Roman Catholic Church; that he withdrew
any such teachings and that he regretted
that he had illicitly and sacrilegiously
conferred upon others various orders. This
Vatican cleric called upon others whom
Vilatte had ordained to submit to the
Roman Pontiff. On 25 May 1899, BishopZardetti wrote to Bishop Messmer of Green
Bay that Father Flemming had the case well
in hand.
Then came reports that Vilatte had not
made his final abjuration with Rome or
been reconciled with the Church. It was
explained that he was awaiting the result of
the process before the Holy Office.Meanwhile, the Holy Office received an
eight page report from the Diocese of
Green Bay, in which the bishop laid stress
on the insincerity of Vilatte in the past;
suggesting that he merely wanted Rome to
say that his orders were valid so that he
could go to England and validate the orders
of the Anglicans.
By 1900, Vilatte was in France. His hosts
were the Roman Catholic Benedictine
monks of the Abbey of Saint Martin, near
Poitiers, in order to make a careful study of
his orders from the Syro-Malabar Jacobite
with the Anglican Benedictine Joseph
Leycester Lyne (1837 - 1908) and
his Llanthony Monastery which he founded
in 1869 in the Honddu valley of the Black
Mountains of South Wales; Lyne styledhimself "Ignatius of Jesus, O.S.B."
(Lyne's Llanthony Monasterymust not be
confused with the Catholic Llanthony
Monastery suppressed by the Protestants,
although they are near each other).
Vilatte arrived in England three months
after the Kaminski consecration. Lyne was
visiting the United States in 18901891,raising funds for his work in England, when
Vilatte became acquainted with him. Lyne
claimed that he belonged to the "Ancient
British Church", the oldest after Jerusalem
and Antioch. Vilatte first visited Frederick
George Lee of the "Order of Corporate
Reunion". Lee gave Vilatte a letter of
introduction to Lyne.
Vilatte arrived in the Black Mountains on 18
July 1898, bringing all of his documents and
vestments and offered ordination to any
and all; including Lyne, explaining that he
was on his way to Russia. Eventually Lyne
and others received ordination from the
hands of Vilatte, using the Latin Rite.
In January 1899, most Catholic newspapers
of Europe and North America reported thatVilatte was in Rome seeking reconciliation
with the Roman Catholic Church instead of
with the Russian Orthodox Church.
On 2 February 1899, Father David
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While Vilatte was in England and Europe a
series of conflicts between the anti-Catholic
Government of France and the Roman
Catholic Church broke out, arising from thegovernment's anti-clerical legislation. This
gave Vilatte inspiration to return to his
native country to exploit the situation with
the hope of setting up a State-controlled
Gallican National Church, under influence
of the anti-clerical liberal and proto-socialist
French government, in opposition to the
official Roman Catholic Church. This he did
in the summer of 1906. The previousDecember the government abrogated the
Concordat that made Roman Catholicism
the official religion of France. Vilatte was on
friendly terms with Aristide Briand, one of
the leaders of this liberal anti-Roman
movement and the Minister of Education.
The new legislation confiscated Roman
Catholic Church property and made them
State property. Soon after his arrival inParis, Vilatte managed to obtain possession
of the former Barnabite Church in the Rue
Legendre, which he reopened for Old
Catholic services in the vernacular. One of
his former priests from Wisconsin assisted.
On 21 June 1907 Vilatte consecrated a
formerly Roman Catholic, former Trappist
monk, Louis Marie Francois Giraud, whohad been expelled from the Roman Catholic
Church for dabbling in magic and the occult.
Shortly after this consecration Cardinal
Richard issued a warning to the people
about apostate priests who were
(Oriental Orthodox) Church, so that Vilatte
could convince the Holy Office in Rome of
the validity of his episcopate. While living as
a guest of the Benedictines of Poitiers,
Vilatte did not cease his subversive, anti-Catholic activities, although conducted
secretly. News of this reached Cardinal
Richard of Paris who, on 17 April 1900,
circulated a warning among his clergy to be
on their guard against men who claimed to
be ordained or consecrated by Vilatte. At
this time, on 6 May 1900, Vilatte
consecrated an Italian, Paolo Miraglia-
Gulotti as the Old Catholic Bishop of Italy,with the title of Bishop of Piacenza; this
later became known as the Italian National
Episcopal Church, a church modeled in an
Anglican fashion and moderately anti-
Roman.
When the authorities of the Catholic Church
learned of this, they issued on 13 June
1900, major excommunications againstboth Vilatte and Paolo Miragila-Gulotti.
Vilatte decided to once again return to
Canada.
In the summer of 1903, Vilatte was back in
South Wales and raised to the episcopacy
Henry Marsh-Edwards, with the title of
Bishop of Caerleon. Marsh-Edwards was a
former Anglican priest of the Diocese ofSouthwell. The next day both men
consecrated Henry Bernard Ventham as
Bishop of Dorchester. Priests were ordained
that summer in both England and the
Continent.
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founded, on 18 July on 50,000 acres, a
communal settlement called Vilatteville.
Vilatte felt it was a blessing to live there.
On 10 May 1911, Generals Pasqual Orozcoand Pancho Villa captured Ciudad Juarez.
Fifteen days later Porfiro Diaz resigned.
Abraham Gonzalex, the new revolutionary
governor of Chihuahua, dismembered the
settlements sold to foreigners by the
former government, including Vilatteville.
Father Taylor stayed in Chihuahua and
acted as a community church worker.
In 1910, Vilatte founded the "American
Catholic Church (ACC)"at the Cathedral of
Buffalo. The Council of oversight included:
Vilatte, Kaminski, and Miraglia.
The council agreed:
a council of churches open to all
persons having their residence in
this country, whatever may be theirnationality;
united in the fidelity to the true faith
in our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the
sole Head of the Universal Church
and our High Priest;
imbued with the American Spirit of
democracy and liberty;
a branch or section of the true
(Christian) Catholic Church of God,with its own Synod and Conference
of Bishops.
Vilatte received Frederick Ebenezer
Lloyd into his newly-founded sect and on 19
celebrating mass under cover of a pseudo
American Bishop, and excommunicated
Vilatte a second time. Soon thereafter
Vilatte returned to the United States.
Chicago became the next home to
Archbishop Vilatte. At this time, he had
severed all relations with Alvares'
Independent Jacobite Church of Ceylon,
Goa and India, the Indian Orthodox
Church and the Old Catholic Churches of
Europe. The establishment of the Polish
National Catholic Church and the
consecration of Francis Hodur was the finalblow to his hope of being recognized as
the Old Catholic Archbishop of North
America.
In 1910, Vilatte ordained William H. F.
Brothers, prior of the Anglican-
Benedictine Saint Dunstan's
Abbey, Waukegan, Illinois. This was an Old
Catholic group of men, legally incorporatedin Fond du Lac in 1909 by Charles Grafton
as "The American Congregation of the
Order of Saint Benedict"(In 1911 the Abbey
was united with the Polish Old Catholic
Church).
In 1910, with a group of Society of the
Precious Blood Religious, led by Father
Gildas Taylor, who had joined the Societyafter his ordination, Vilatte went to Texas,
to a place in Presido County called
Candelaria. From there, they crossed the
Rio Grande to an area in the vicinity of San
Antonio El Bravo in Mexico where they
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Episcopalian minister; the African
American George Alexander McGuire in
Chicago for McGuire's newly
founded African Orthodox Church.
Soon Vilatte was again reduced to penury.
In 1925, he returned to France where he
sought the assistance of the Gnostic
magician Monsignor Johnny Jean Bricaud.
However, as this did nothing to improve his
finances, he sought to be reconciled once
again to the Roman Catholic Church. On 1
June 1925, Vilatte made his formal
declaration before Bishop Ceretti, ApostolicNuncio at Paris, regretting and repenting
having illicitly received holy orders and
having conferred them on others. The
Roman Catholic Church sent him on to
the Cistercian abbey at Pont Colbert to do
penance. A week later La Croix and other
newspapers announced that Vilatte, with
an American boy-servant (named Maxey),
was staying at Pont Colbert at the requestof Pope Pius XI. The Holy See granted him a
pension of 22,000 francs annually.
On 23 June 1925, the Bayerischer
Kurieg published a statement on the orders
of the "Swiss Christian Catholic Church", to
the effect that Vilatte had never been a
priest of this body nor any other genuine
Old Catholic church in the widelyrecognized Union of Utrecht.
Bishop Ceretti, papal nuncio, replied to the
newspaper as follows:
December 1915 consecrated him at Saint
David's Chapel on East 36th Street, Chicago.
Vilatte was assisted by Paolo Miraglia-
Gulotti, formerly of Italy and then of New
York and working with Vilatte in the UnitedStates. During this consecration Vilatte
addressed the congregation and newly
consecrated prelate saying:
It needs no prophet to foretell for
you and the American Catholic
Church (ACC) a great future in the
Province of God. The need for a
Church both American and Catholic,and free from Paparchy[rule of the
Pope] and all foreign
denominations, has been felt for
many years by Christians of all the
denominations. May your zeal and
apostolic ministry be crowned with
success.
Subsequently, in a synod held in Chicago on10 April 1920, Vilatte retired from his newly
founded "American Catholic Church (ACC)",
naming Lloyd as his successor as Primate
and Metropolitan. The clergy attending
granted Vilatte the honorary title of Exarch.
He lived in retirement at 4427 North
Mulligan Avenue, Chicago and did not
perform any more Episcopal functions until
22 September 1921 when he ordainedWallace David de Ortega Maxey to the
priesthood.
On 28 September 1921, Vilatte
conditionally consecrated a former
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For the next three and a half years, Vilatte
led a quiet and secluded life in a cottage
within the abbey grounds. He was
addressed as "Archbishop" but wore a
simple black cassock. Pope Pius XI offeredto conditionally re-ordain him, but he
declined. He attended daily Mass,
receiving Holy Communion on Sundays. His
end came suddenly of heart failure on 8
July 1929 and he was buried in the Roman
Catholic cemetery in Versailles.
During his lifetime he consecrated some
seven to eight bishops. Shortly after hisdeath most of his papers vanished.
While the validity of Vilatte's orders was
never finally settled, most non-Roman Old
Catholics believe that his orders were valid.
(Edited by Bishop Godsey with help from
Wikipedia, Bishops at Large, Independent
Wiki and the collected works of BishopWeeks.)
Consecration and Ordinations
April and May were longs months when it
came to preparing for ordinations and
consecrations. We had the distinct pleasure
of welcoming the Metropolitan Archbishop
of our church, His Eminence Adrian S.
Glover to our shores. Archbishop Glover
traveled to the United States to consecrate
a new Metropolitan Bishop, a Bishop
Ordinary and to install a Bishop Ordinary.
Archbishop Vilatte received
the Minor Orders and the Order
of Subdeacon on 5 June 1885, the
Order of Deacon on 6 June of the
same year, and on the followingday, 7 June 1885, the Ordination to
the Priesthood.
All these orders were conferred
upon him by Bishop Herzog (Old
Catholic Bishop) in the Old Catholic
Church in Berne.
This proved by documents, seals and
signatures of Bishop Herzog.
Concerning his Episcopal
Consecration, it took place on 29
May 1892.
Archbishop Vilatte was consecrated
by three Jacobite Bishops in the
Cathedral of Archbishop Alvares in
Colombo (Ceylon).Archbishop Vilatte is likewise in the
possession of the consecration deed
in question bearing the signatures of
the three above mentioned bishops
and of the American Consul, who
was present at the ceremony.
This letter was published in the same
newspaper and Vilatte was very pleasedthat Bishop Ceretti believed and accepted
his priesthood and consecration, even
though they were irregular from a Roman
Catholic view.
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As you can see, it was not all work either!
The Episcopal Diocese of Upper South
Carolina was gracious enough to allow us
the use of Saint James Episcopal Church in
Greenville, South Carolina. This church
made an excellent setting for the
consecrations that were to occur on April
14, 2012.
The consecration was magnificent. We had
the opportunity to fellowship with many of
the clerics and laity within our church and
we witnessed the outpouring of the Holy
Spirit upon his servants in the Sacrament of
Holy Orders.
Rev. Mr. Terry Elkington was raised to the
Sub-Deaconate by Archbishop Glover.
Next came the Consecrations of
Metropolitan Bishop Aaron Edmund
Newton Cass and Bishop Ordinary Edward
(Ted) Wooldridge.
We were most honored and pleased to
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have Bishop John Bell of the Reformed
Catholic Church participating as a co-
consecrator alongside Archbishop Glover
and our own Bishop Gregory Godsey.
On Sunday morning April 15th
, we gathered
in the chapel at Exaltation Hermitage to
celebrate Mass. Metropolitan Bishop Cass
offered his first mass as a Bishop and
Archbishop Glover delivered a moving
homily.
We took the opportunity to bless the
chalice and paten that Friar Father PhilipGerboc will be using in Wisconsin, at the
end of Mass.
On May 27, 2012, Friar Philip Gerboc was
ordained to the priesthood. After many
setbacks and delays, Friar Gerboc was able
to travel to Zanesville, Ohio and with the
help of Bishop John Bell and the assistance
of Bishop Edward (Ted) Wooldridge; he was
ordained on the Feast of Pentecost.
We are thankful to Almighty God for the
continued growth and blessing on our
church.
Welcome!
We would like to extend our most heartfelt
welcome to the newest members of the Old
Catholic Church USA:
Right Rev. Adolphus C. Howard III,
Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese of Saint
Augustine of Canterbury
The Benedictine Sisters of Mount St.
Charitas
Goshen Community, an outreach to
clergy and those hurt by organized
religion.
We have also extended our Episcopal
Protection to the following clergy and
churches as they discern the call of God:
Msgr. William Cavins and Holy Angels
Catholic Community in Florida
We pray that God will continue to bless our
joint efforts as we strive to build up the
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please email a list of items to
vestments@lcacusa.org.
By the same token, if you have items which
you are willing to part with, send a list ofthe items as well as their condition to
vestments@lcacusa.org.
Support the National Church
If you feel inclined to support the National
Church, you can do so at the following link:
http://www.lcacusa.org/support-us/. Your
donations are greatly appreciated and help
to keep the church running!
Feisty Frying Friar
A feisty, light lunch or snack, this little
chicken salad gets two thumbs up from me!
Cajun Chicken Salad Recipe
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 15 minutes
While this recipe calls for poaching raw
chicken breasts, you could easily just use
leftover cooked chicken.
INGREDIENTS
1 pound skinless, boneless chicken
breasts Salt
1/2 cup mayonnaise
2 Tbsp mustard
1 Tbsp cider vinegar
2 teaspoons paprika
Kingdom of God.
Learning Notes
We are pleased to announce that starting
September 8, 2012 we will begin enrolling
students into Sacred Heart Theological
Seminary USA. Classes in the new seminary
will start September 16, 2012 and will
feature a new model of education whereby
students will take one course a month.
The Franciscans of the Exaltation of the
Holy Cross are in the process of putting the
final touches on their Formation Manual.
The manual will be released over the next
month. It is a comprehensive course of
study for those interested in the Franciscan
way of life.
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can assist you in creating an ad.
Vestment Exchange
We are in the planning phase for the
creation of a vestment exchange for our
clergy here in the United States. If you are
in need of any vestments or liturgical items,
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1 teaspoon Cajun or Creole seasoning
1 teaspoon prepared horseradish
2 hard-boiled eggs, chopped
1/2 cup chopped celery
1/2 cup chopped green pepper 1/4 cup chopped green onion
Tabasco or other hot sauce to taste
METHOD
1. Set a 2-quart pot of well salted water
over high heat. As the water heats to
a boil, cut the chicken breasts into
large (2 1/2-inch) chunks. When thewater boils, add the chicken. Turn off
the heat and cover the pot. Let sit for
15 minutes (time it) or more while you
prepare everything else.
2. In a large bowl, mix the mayo,
mustard, vinegar, paprika, Cajun
seasoning and horseradish together.
Mix in the eggs, celery, green pepper,
green onion.3. Using a slotted spoon, remove the
chicken from the poaching water* and
dice it. Mix it in with the remaining
ingredients. Add salt and hot sauce to
taste. Chill before serving.
Serve over butter lettuce or between two
pieces of bread for a sandwich.
*The resulting poaching liquid is a light,
salted chicken broth. You can save it and
pour it into a cup and drink it as a light soup
if you want.
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