  
Growing Pains
In 1945, Charles Hampton, (left) the Provincial Bishop in America, told all of his priests to treat Theosophy as optional. He maintained that it was always intended by its founders to be separate.
The Presiding Bishop, F. W. Pigott, (right) suspended the American Bishop.
The American Bishop, the majority of American priests, bishops, and parishioners, said the Presiding Bishop was being too heavy-handed. They said the word "Liberal" means free.
The Americans severed ties with the British church.
Now maintaining that Theosophy is optional, not required, they formed The Liberal Catholic Church International, later reorganized as the Universal Catholic Church.
The web page you are reading is from the group that keeps Theosophy as optional only, not required.
There are some other differences. The list below is some of those differences--
| | The UCC
(this group) | The European LCC |
| Basic Christian tenets (1) |  | |
| Traditional sacraments (2) | | |
| Belief in essential Oneness of creation | | |
| Individuals are free to believe what they wish | | |
| Wedgwood/Leadbeater liturgy | | |
| Clergy can marry | | |
| Reincarnation |  | |
| Ascended Masters | | |
| Vegetarianism | | |
| Ordains gays | | |
| Ordains women to minor orders | |  |
| Ordains women deacons | | |
| Ordains women priests | | |
| Consecrates women as bishops | | |
| Unfermented grape juice in Mass | | |
| Will remarry divorced couples | | |
| Clergy salary | | |
NOTES:
- e.g., the Holy Trinity, a Presence of our Lord in the Sacrament of the Altar, etc.
- Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Absolution, Matrimony, Holy Orders, and Unction.
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