Liberal Catholicism

Liberal Catholic Studies
CSISM devotes particular attention to the movement originating from the Liberal Catholic Church, which was founded in 1916 as a re-organization of the Old Catholic movement in the U.K.

Liberal Catholicism was a movement significantly ahead of its time, with originating influences from Theosophy, panentheism, the religions of the East, the Wisdom Tradition and universalism among others. Its founders, Bishops Wedgwood and Leadbeater, sought to create a church of mystical Catholicism within which would pertain complete freedom of faith and conscience. This movement has spread along with their Apostolic Succession to all corners of the globe and now accounts for one of the most dynamic elements within the ISM.

Historical and organizational studies
>>Liberal Catholicism - a brief organizational history
>>Historic documents and photographs relating to Liberal Catholicism
>>Photographs of the consecration of Bishop E. James Burton in 1968
>>1961 court judgement in the case that led to the separation of the LCC and LCCI

Reproductions
>>Table of the Apostolical Succession in the Liberal Catholic Church (Liberal Catholic Church of Ontario, Canada, 1986): page 1; page 2; page 3; page 4
>>The Official Records of Synod 1910-1915, as compiled and annotated by Presiding Bishop E. James Burton

Resources
>>Resources relating to Liberal Catholicism, the Wisdom Tradition and the independent sacramental movement