Every canonical document of this church sits in one of three states: published in full, held on file and released on request, or sealed. This page gives the register, the state of each instrument, the reasoning behind each tier, and how to request a document. Requests are answered within two days.
Published in full. Anything that binds this church or describes its authority is public without asking. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Declaration of Faith, and the Decree of Erection are in this tier, because a body that governs people while keeping its own governing text private is not accountable, it is merely quiet. Canonical documents in this tier can be quoted against this church, which is the point of publishing them.
Held on file and released on request. Operational and disciplinary instruments are given to anyone with a reason to read them — grantmakers, journalists, prospective clergy, congregants, and auditors — on a request answered within two days. They are not posted openly because they change with resolutions and amendments, and a stale public copy is worse than a current supplied one. No fee, no form, no justification demanded beyond identifying yourself.
Sealed. Sacramental registers, clergy files, safeguarding files, and pastoral correspondence are closed. A person may obtain their own entry and nobody else’s. This is the tier people most often misread as secrecy, so the reasoning is set out below rather than assumed.
Every instrument, in every tier, is entered in the Document Register with its date and its amendments. The Register is itself held on file, which means the list of what exists can be inspected even where an individual file cannot.
Declaration of Independence
Establishes this church as an independent catholic body not in communion with Rome, with grounds.
Published in fullConstitution
Erects the offices, defines governance, and sets the amendment procedure.
Published in fullDeclaration of Faith
The numbered articles of belief subscribed by this church.
Published in fullDecree of Erection
Erects the Church of Bloom under the patronage of St. Mary Magdalene, 17 October 2025.
Published in fullBylaws
Corporate governance, the Board, meetings, quorum, conflicts of interest, and finance.
Held on fileDecree of Election
Elects and provides the Ordinary and Chief Pastor to the office.
Held on fileOrdination Discipline
Candidacy, the non-waivable gates, prescribed formation, examination, and admission to orders.
Held on fileMarriage Discipline
Form, preparation, impediments as this church applies them, and the record of solemnisation.
Held on fileBoard and Chapter Resolutions
Acts of the Board and the Chapter, numbered and dated in sequence.
Held on fileProfession of Faith
The form subscribed by clergy and officers on admission to office.
Held on fileCustody Instruction
How registers and files are kept, who may touch them, retention, and the seal.
Held on fileDocument Register
The index of every instrument, its date, its state, and its amendments.
Held on fileSacramental Registers
Baptism, confirmation, marriage, and burial, kept in bound books in ink.
SealedClergy and Safeguarding Files
Candidate files, background check results, training records, and reports received.
SealedOn why the registers are sealed
Publishing a baptismal register would confuse transparency with exposing the people who trusted us. A trans person’s baptismal entry can carry a former name, a date, and a town — which is a disclosure, an outing, and in some jurisdictions a danger, dressed up as openness.
On what the seal does not cover
The seal protects individuals, never the institution. No governing document, no discipline, no financial obligation, and no safeguarding rule is ever placed behind it, and no allegation of abuse is ever treated as a sealed matter rather than a reportable one.
On your own entry
Any person may obtain their own sacramental record, and may ask what this church holds about them. The answer is given in writing, and a correction requested in writing is entered with its date rather than substituted silently.
Sacramental registers are kept in bound books in ink under the Custody Instruction. Entries are numbered in sequence, corrections are entered rather than erased, and the Chancellor holds custody with the Ordinary. A bound book resists exactly the thing that has undone institutional records everywhere else, which is a quiet retrospective change nobody can detect.
Canonical documents in electronic form are held with dated executed copies rather than living files, so that what was signed remains what can be produced. Retention runs indefinitely for registers and for the instruments; safeguarding records are retained under their own schedule and are never purged to protect the institution.
If this church ever ceases, the Custody Instruction provides for the registers to pass intact to a successor body or archive rather than dissolve. People’s sacramental records should outlive the jurisdiction that made them.
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