The Church has them officially recognised as a “community of secular priests”.

Interdasting

I’m an Oratorian lay brother myself, so I’m always very excited to talk about them.

Hence the Fr Faber profile picture.

I'm just a guy who got baptised two months ago

With the Oratory?

Yep

Ah, which one?

Didn't really know anything else at the time.

The one in Oxford.

Welcome aboard the One True Church!

Ah! I’m at the London Oratory!

Yes, well, do stay with the Oratory. They are a superb bunch.

Do you know Gabriel from /rel/ per chance? I think he goes to an Oratory quite a lot.

I’m not very active in rel anymore.

Ah.

Not missing much these days, tbh

Certain members can be rather unsavoury, but we shan’t talk about that.

Wasn't /rel/ banned?

It's sort of back

Yes, it’s been revived.

Again?

There's now 3 /rel/-like groups

I did, however, notice the Sikh raid.

but none have the same pull /rel/ did

That was just weird.

But the second they did it'd just be shadow banned again

The official one is the Cult of Ichtys or however you spell it.

There's also an LC group

And /Trad/, now.

I’ve never been to the Oxford Oratory.

It's a beautiful building

I do know that most Oratorians were opposed to it’s foundation, haha.

It was Newman’s brainchild, if my memory serves me correct.

I believe you're correct.

It's quite remarkable how Catholic a place Oxford is.

Indeed, the way it should be!

Very true

Shame the uni chaplaincy is a bit too... "jesuit".

I’m sure most university chaplaincies are of that persuasion nowadays.

Hmm,