This is the declaration of faith of the Church of Bloom, published as numbered articles so that it can be quoted, disputed, and held against us. It is a canonical instrument, not a mission statement. Where a creed belongs, we name it and cite where its text is found rather than paraphrase it.
Article I — Of God
We believe in one God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three Persons in one substance, who made all that is, seen and unseen. God is not a party to human hierarchies and is not the property of the people who administer them.
Article II — Of Jesus Christ
We believe in Jesus Christ, true God and true man, incarnate, crucified under Pontius Pilate, risen on the third day, and coming again. He was executed by a religious and civil order that found him inconvenient, and this church does not forget which side of that arrangement it could end up on.
Article III — Of the Creeds
We hold the faith of the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, and the Athanasian Creed. Their texts are not reproduced here from memory; the Nicene Creed is found in the Ordinary of the Mass in the Missale Romanum of 1962, and the conciliar texts of all three are found in Denzinger’s Enchiridion Symbolorum.
Article IV — Of the Church
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church, of which this body is a part and not the whole. No jurisdiction, including this one, is the Church entire, and any church that forgets that has begun to worship itself.
Article V — Of Scripture and how it is read
We receive the canonical scriptures as the word of God, read within the tradition, with the Fathers, and with attention to genre, language, and the setting in which each book was written. A verse torn out of its book and used as a weapon against a living person is being misused, and the misuse is the reader’s, not God’s.
Article VI — Of the human person and the body
We believe every human person is made in the image of God, body and soul together, and that the body is not an accusation to be answered. Trans and intersex people are not a question the Church is deliberating; they are people the Church is accountable to, and their existence is not a matter of ideology.
Article VII — Of the sacraments
We hold the seven sacraments instituted by Christ, administered in the Roman books of 1962, the Rituale Romanum of 1952, and the Pontificale Romanum of 1961–62. They are not rewritten for anyone and they are not withheld from anyone found fit to receive them.
Article VIII — Of conscience
We hold that a person is bound to follow a conscience formed with seriousness, prayer, and the counsel of the tradition, and that coercing conscience produces obedience, not faith. Formation informs conscience; it does not replace it.
Article IX — Of the poor
We hold that the poor, the sick, the imprisoned, the disabled, and the cast out have a claim on this church that precedes its convenience, and that the works of mercy are obligations rather than programmes. Matthew 25:31–46 is read here as a description of the judgement, not as a metaphor for it.
Article X — Of the limits of our own authority
This church claims authority over no one who has not asked for it, claims no Roman jurisdiction or faculties, and claims nothing about its orders that it cannot document. Where we are wrong, we intend to be correctable, and the register exists so that the correction has something to correct.
Articles are numbered because a numbered thing can be cited, and a cited thing can be argued with. A church that publishes its convictions as atmosphere rather than as text is protecting itself from correction. The declaration of faith was signed 17 October 2025 and is held in the Chancery in its executed form; the version above is published in full.
Nothing in these articles is novel doctrine. They are the received catholic faith, held in the Roman Rite of 1962 under the 1917 Pio-Benedictine Code. What differs from Rome is discipline and admission, not the Trinity, not the Incarnation, and not the sacraments — and the places where it differs are set out at length on the independence page rather than buried in a subordinate clause.
Where the creeds are concerned this instrument names and cites rather than reproduces. Reciting a symbol of faith from memory in a published document is how errors enter a text and stay there for a century. The books hold the words; this document holds the assent.
Amendment runs through the Chapter and the Board under the Bylaws, and every amendment is entered in the Document Register with its date. A belief you can quietly revise is not a belief, it is a position.
Article VII is why the rite is not adapted for the people this church serves. The Daily Offering, Monday through Saturday, is a low-Mass form and is not a Mass; Sunday Mass replaces that day’s Offering and is offered within this church’s own independent catholic tradition. The books are kept as they stand.
Article VI is why no one is asked to present a birth certificate before a sacrament, and Article VIII is why no one is asked to renounce a conscientious conclusion in order to be received. Article IX is why assistance is administered without a means test performed at the church door.
Article X is the one that binds the others. A declaration of faith that asserted more than this body can document would fail its own tenth article on the day it was signed.
Declaration of Faith
The articles above, in their executed and signed form.
Published in fullDeclaration of Independence
Establishes non-communion with Rome and the grounds for it.
Published in fullConstitution
Offices, governance, and the amendment procedure for the articles.
Published in fullProfession of Faith
The form subscribed by clergy and officers, bound to these articles.
Held on fileDecree of Erection
Erects this church under the patronage of St. Mary Magdalene, 17 October 2025.
Published in fullWhere this church stands apart from Rome, on what grounds, and what it declines to claim.
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