Membership here is not a mailing list or a login. It is the catechumenate: the Church’s ancient four-stage path by which an adult is prepared, examined, and received. Enrolment is open and the first cohort is being received now. There is no fee, and there never will be.
Long before anyone kept membership rolls, the Church received adults through a staged process: you inquired, you were enrolled among the catechumens, you were chosen for the coming feast, and you were initiated in the sacraments. Becoming Catholic as an adult has always meant walking that shape rather than signing something.
Faith in Bloom keeps it. The stages are named, the gates are real, and none of them are waived to hurry someone along. What has been removed are the additional gates other bodies invented for people like you — detransition, silence, celibacy in place of your marriage, a promise to be less visible.
The Church of Bloom is Independent Catholic and is not in communion with Rome; it claims no Roman faculties, jurisdiction, or recognition of its orders. Reception here is reception into this church, stated plainly so that nobody discovers it later.
On the cost of membership
Enrolment has no fee, no dues, no minimum gift, and no suggested amount. Nobody has ever been charged for becoming Catholic as an adult in this church and nobody ever will be. Whether you give and whether you are received are handled by different offices and are never allowed to touch.
You write. The Office of the Ordinary reads it and answers, and you talk about what you are actually asking for — which is frequently not what the first message said. Nothing is entered anywhere at this stage and you can stop without a word.
Answered within two daysYou are enrolled among the catechumens and formation begins: the creed, the sacraments, the moral life, and the tradition’s own history with people the Church has excluded. It runs at the pace of a working adult, and it is a conversation rather than a curriculum handed down.
Required — not waivableThe stage where the Church says yes rather than you. Fitness is discerned by the Ordinary, the name to be entered in the register is settled in advance, and the date of initiation is set. Nothing about your gender, your marriage, or your history is a bar.
Discerned by the OrdinaryBaptism if you have never been baptized, confirmation, and first communion, celebrated from the 1952 Rituale Romanum. A valid prior baptism is never repeated. The entry is made in a bound register in ink, in your name.
Entered in the register“Whithersoever thou shalt go, I will go: and where thou shalt dwell, I also will dwell. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.”
Ruth 1:16
For anyone never baptized, and a corrected record for anyone whose entry carries a name they do not use.
How it works → IIFor adults never confirmed, and for anyone told later that theirs did not count. It stands.
How it works → IIIThe declaration you are being formed in, published in full rather than summarised for newcomers.
Read it first →Enrolment is open and the first cohort is being received now. Say where you are starting from, even if the honest answer is that you have no idea.
Inquiry costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Say that you are asking, and the Office of the Ordinary will take it from there.
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