Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00614)

Hi All,
Recently I discovered the Liberal Catholic Church International.
Check out the FAQ's 
http://www.liberalcatholic.org/about/faq.asp

The 2 questions that may be of interest I found are:


Do you ordain women?
Yes. Gender is not an impediment to ordination at any level. Both 
women and men can be ordained as cleric, doorkeeper, reader, 
exorcist, acolyte, subdeacon, deacon, priest, and bishop
(this is real progress, well done LCC International !)

and

I have heard that the early Bishops of the Liberal Catholic Church 
were Theosophists. What is Theosophy and is a belief in it required 
in the Liberal Catholic Church International?


"Theosophy is a school of thought founded in the late 1800's. Its 
purpose was study comparative religion and mysticism. Some of its 
basic principles are belief in the eastern concepts of reincarnation, 
karma, vegetarianism and abstention from the use of alcoholic 
beverages. While many of the Liberal Catholic Church's early Bishops 
did, in fact, hold theosophical ideals, a belief in them is neither 
required nor forbidden in the Liberal Catholic Church International. 
The LCCI respects the freedom of individual conscience on these 
issues, as in others. There is a branch of Liberal Catholicism in 
America known as the "Liberal Catholic Church, Province of the United 
States of America," that does require its clergy to profess a belief 
in the teachings of Theosophy. We are not part of that branch."



Perry