I have made comparisons with what Michael Lofton states under the first half of this video:
BREAKING: Sam Shamoun Has NOT Converted to Catholicism? – The Evidence Considered
Reason & Theology | 27.VI.2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax9-q0HIgRY
11:25 Was Gilbert Keith Chesterton a Catholic Apologist while still Anglican?
Some would say yes.
Was John Henry Newman a Catholic Apologist in the years preceding his final reception into the Catholic Church?
What he later says in Apologia suggests he practically considered himself such ...
There are Catholics who will cite Chesterton from Orthodoxy, a work he wrote while still Anglican (1908, Orthodoxy, 1922, Catholic conversion), and there are Catholics who will cite Newman Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, which he wrote 1845, same year as his conversion, but before it, and before receiving instruction.
He was specifically under orders to give sincerely and without a Catholic filter the reasons he had found as still an Anglican to become a Catholic.
14:06 Produce receits ...
I did make a public confession of faith in the chapel of Mary Immaculate on Ekgatan in Malmö. 1988. May 22 or 25 whichever is a Sunday. The other date is my baptismal date in the Lutheran Church of Sweden earlier on, on a Friday, in 1984, when I was 15 and 1/2.
However, when it comes to paperwork, I did not get "receits" into my hands.
Was the Catholic Church, Diocese of Stockholm, deliberately fudging the paper work so I could not prove I'm a Catholic or no one could prove it against me, should I later desire to return to Protestantism?
If so, that kind of collaboration with the kind of people who stamped me as immature when I was 20 and will continue to stamp me as immature till I die, as long as I am a Christian believer, is an extra reason to prefer Pope Michael II. In fact, however, I think they put the paper work in the parish register, which would now be in Maria i Rosengård. The chaplain who received me, Father Wilhelm Imach, OMI, and the parish priest, Father Rudolf Basista, OMI, have both died since. They were ordained before 1970. Father Wilhelm in 1962, Father Rudolf in 1958.
Father Wilhelm was ordained in Obra, Greater Poland. As was Father Rudolf. Apparently, the former Cistercian Abbey is the seminar of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
16:45 The profession of faith I made was different.
"Allt som den Katholska Kyrkan tror, lär och förkunnar vara uppenbaradt af Gud, det tror och bekänner jag"
Everything that the Catholic Church believes, teaches and proclaims to be revealed by God, that I believe and confess.
17:52 I received first penance and first communion in 1988, but confirmation (if valid) only later, in 1990.
The catechesis I received was extensive, a Catechism from the 1960's Germany translated into Swedish [during] the last year [of my catechesis], and in parallel I had already bought and started reading privately Konvertitenkatechismus, 1950, Paderborn, and that means it was by the Jesuits.
Before that year, there had been false starts with that book in the background.
24:57 Was Henry VIII still a Catholic Apologist after going into schism?
He had earned the title, given by the Pope, of Defensor Fidei, for a work entitled Defense of the Seven Sacraments (against Martin Luther).
Obviously, he backtracked on submission to the Pope, but not on the natures of the sacraments.
So, in a sense, yes.
Meanwhile, it would seem that members of parishes run by SSPX, Sedevacantists and, in my case, Orthopapist Conclavists, are not in the sense of canon laws here considered "parts of non-Catholic Churches" ...
(Though Pope Michael I has ruled SSPX are actually non-Catholics).
I am technically a biritualist with Romanian Orthodox, when I decided to convert to them in 2006 I was not required to abjure Roman Catholicism, and when I decided to get back in 2009, I did not formally abjure Romanian Orthodoxy.
However, a few weeks before I converted in Malmö, in the chapel on Ekgatan (oak street), I did get out of the Church of Sweden, and the reason I hadn't done so already was, I had presumed that the Catholic Church would handle that paper work. It didn't, I was asked to do the paper work with CoS myself.
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