Walker Larson

The term “Old Catholics” refers to a loose association of Christian groups who, claiming to be faithful to original Catholic teaching, have rejected the doctrines of papal infallibility and supremacy as novelties. They separated from Rome after the declarations on the papacy at Vatican I (1870). However, the roots of the Old Catholic groups lie much further back. Various movements throughout Church history have opposed, in some way or another, the power of the papacy.

Les grands rassemblements sollicitent fortement les personnes introverties. Soirées. Fêtes de fin d’études. Mariages. Fêtes de quartier. Festivals. Réunions de famille. L’été s’accompagne d’un agenda social plus chargé que la plupart des autres saisons. Cette période accentue aussi la pression qui pèse sur les personnes introverties ou sujettes à l’anxiété sociale.

Curses, ghosts, spirits, shipwrecks, and death. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” has all the paraphernalia of a Gothic horror story. As fellow British poet Charles Lamb wrote in an 1801 letter: “I was never so affected with any human tale. ... I was totally possessed with it for many days. ...