Today we witness an ever-increasing number of Catholic individuals and families finding themselves pastorally disenfranchised by their faith community because of their age, race, gender, orientation, ethnicity or marital status. The Evangelical Catholic Church finds such treatment of individuals and families unacceptable and morally at odds with the spiritual, liturgical and sacramental life of Catholicism. As a validly reformed Catholic faith community, we dedicate ourselves to welcoming all those who find that they no longer have a community to authentically continue celebrating their Catholic heritage. The pastoral reforms, which we have implemented within our Catholic jurisdiction, fosters every opportunity for Catholics to continue their journey and to enable those from other faith traditions to consider becoming part of our family of faith.

Our Catholic community is not a perfect one. We are fallible men and women attempting to celebrate our faith commitments with dignity and honor. We succeed far more often then fail - but we are always willing to learn from our failings in order to strive to make the Kingdom of God on Earth a sacred place to live in.

Please accept my pledge of providing you with an unconditional open door to welcome you in the celebration of our Catholic heritage.

Please know that you are in our prayers.

Respectfully Yours in Christ,

† David J. Doyle