How Can Anglicans & Old Catholics Worship & Witness Together?
Summary of the address given by the Reverend Canon Dirk W. van Leeuwen of St. Boniface’s Anglican Church, Antwerp, to the Dutch Section of the Society of St. Willibrord, in Rotterdam (Sint Jansplaats) on February 1, 1997. Introduction My first contact with the Old Catholic Church dates back to the 60ies, when I attended secondary school, and my eye was caught by the title of a booklet published by the Old Catholic Church in 1953 when the Roman hierarchy celebrated the centenary of its re-establishment during the last century. The booklet was brought round by an Old Catholic priest, who called when I was at school, causing some embarrassment to my mother! Later, after I had come home in the Anglican Church, I subscribed to the national magazine “De Oud-Katholiek”, but it is not until 1984 when I moved to Haarlem and was given the oversight of the Anglican congregation there, that I got to know the Old Catholic Church (The Anglicans are very fortunate to be allowed the use of the Haarlem
