Brother John Patrick Doughty now ministers within CLERICAL capacity.

New York City has a newly installed Old RC clergyman who has been ministering within the Roman Catholic Church since his youth. On June 20th, 2004, the Third Sunday after Pentecost, Brother John Patrick Doughty was conferred the clerical tonsure and the minor orders of Porter and Exorcist by Bishop Edmund Leeman, OFM of the ORC Diocese of New Jersey. The parallel judicatory also includes several NYC clergy (however, this writer is NOT attached to that particular ORC jurisdiction). The sacred rites were celebrated at Christ the King ORC Mission Parish on West 25th Street (at 9th Avenue) in Manhattan where Br. John Patrick is assigned.

The minor orders of Lector and Acolyte were provided during his time served while attached to the Third Order Dominican Friars of Oxford, U.K. since 1990 and his duties as Extraordinary Minister of Communion and Lay Leader while under the U.S. Archdiocese of the Military Services.

Bro. John Patrick Doughty of the Bronx, NYC, age 50, also serves as a federal deputy clerk within our local courts system and is a ranking U.S. Navy veteran of 15 years. This Catholic Traditionalist is the son of Mary & Frank Doughty and native to the area of his assignment where he has been studying and serving a mission parish street outreach for many years.

Bro. John is a member of the Board of Directors of St. Anthony's Bread Mission Apostolate. Like him, several of our members are uniformed officers. Now, as a tonsured seminarist in minor orders, he may hopefully become a candidate for the subdiaconate. That major order precedes the Holy Order of Deacon in the ancient Old Roman Catholic ultrajectine tradition. I have known and worked in this Vineyard with Br. John for several years and pray that he will soon be ordained a brother priest.

AXIOS! AXIOS! AXIOS! (Worthy!...)