Days gone by, the PNCC and the PECUSA
There are several interesting documents at Project Canterbury related to the PNCC. Among them is Intercommunion between the Episcopal Church and the Polish National Catholic Church: A Survey of its Development by the Reverend Warren C. Platt. The document gives a rather thorough and very well researched look into the history of PNCC-PECUSA relations.
Currently the Rev. Platt is a non-stipendiary priest serving at the Episcopal Church of The Transfiguration in NYC (The Little Church Around the Corner). The Church of the Transfiguration and St Mary’s the Virgin are the two remaining churches of the Oxford Movement in NYC. Rev. Platt was an active participant in many of the PNCC’s annual history conferences.
As you know the history interests me. PECUSA seemed to like trying to encourage schisms from Rome that way; a couple of independent Italian parishes ended up Episcopal, one of which, St Anthony of Padua in Hackensack, NJ, still exists. If by ‘Oxford Movement’ you meant Anglo-Catholic Episcopal (which St Anthony’s still is – they have a relatively conservative flying bishop, approved by its diocese, come and visit), I don’t know much about Transfiguration’s religion other than arguably it used to be AC; my guess is it’s mainstream Episcopal now. St Mary the Virgin, ‘Smoky Mary’s’, used to be the city’s main AC parish but turned mainstream Episcopal a long time ago (about 15-20 years ago): urban gay with pretty things. (Katherine Jefferts Schori has celebrated there.) There’s Resurrection which more subtly plays along with the Episcopal diocese’s agenda: they have old-fashioned services with a Tridentinesque missal and nice art art and music, and I think are one jump beyond tolerant conservative (don’t ask, don’t tell outside of confession) to discreetly gay and old.
IDK about Transfiguration, but I’d say Smokey Mary’s has given up the ghost when it comes to the Oxford Movement. It’s yet another sad place where the zeitgeist has kicked the Holy Ghost out. Instead, I’d substitute the Church of the Resurrection, whose catholic roots and catholic witness is quite alive.
-j
The info I had may have been a bit out-of-date. Hard to keep up in this age when people change theology and practice like they change… well you know what…