1. Because Anglo-Catholics are not uniting (communing with and organizing with) modern liberals that ordain women and receive ordained women priests (see Common Cause) or with ”Anglicans” that believe the bishop is only a convenience. Anglo-Catholicism knows who she is and hopes in orthodox unity rather than compromised and placated unity.

 2. Because I believe in the consecrated Eucharist and its need to be reserved.

 3.Because I do not believe in separating ministerial training from the Church. The pastors and teachers of the local church are paid and called by the local church/diocese to teach and train people (Ephesians 4). If the church cannot do its job then it ceases to be an obedient church. Most non-Anglo-Catholic churches require that a man go to a modern Evangelical seminary that is completely separated from the church.

 4. Because I believe Rome is the “mother church” and that it is not sin to leave Protestantism to join them or the East.

 5.Because Anglo-Catholic worship is the closest to Early church worship and does not allow for syncretism and modern Prayer-Book-swapping.

 6. Because Anglo-Catholicism is not afraid of the theology of the Church’s history. We live not the “covenantal” life (Christ’s covenant cannot be remade over and over), but live a sacramental life. This allows us to emphasis Baptism, The Eucharist, Confirmation, Penance, Healing the Sick, Holy Orders, and Marriage. Evangelicals have a hard time emphasizing these things and so these doctrines/duties are then taken captive by the liberals and modernists. Catholic theology helps retain these very important duties that were first initiated by Christ. This is evangelism as Christ described it.

 7. Because Rome is only one Jurisdiction out of three. The Celts were worshiping back into the second century and eventually became organized as Anglicans in the sixth century.

 8.Because Anglo-Catholicism is the founding religion of America, and I am an American.