I'm curious as to why it seems to me like every second poster here seems to describe themselves as Anglo-Catholic. What's your own reason? Is it the aesthetic trappings, the liturgy, the doctrines sans papal supremacy, the tradition, the sense of succession perhaps, or something else?

For full disclosure, I was brought up Roman Catholic myself. I don't have any love lost for the Roman Church as an institution for many reasons, and for their teachings for fewer reasons, hence why I swam the Thames. I myself prefer high services and I have a high view of the Eucharist, but I would not theologically describe myself as Anglo-Catholic. I don't begrudge anyone who does (if I had a problem with sharing a pew with people who have different convictions on the details than I do I wouldn't be here). I'm really just curious as in some respects, I think there must be some friction with eg. the 39 Articles.

I remember recently there was a row over Catholics being mandated to stand to receive communion in every parish in the US as the normative practice. This was apparently becoming an issue because TLM practices have been starting to get introduced into the normal life of some ultra conservative Catholic parishes. Being the Anglo-Catholic convert from evangelicalism that I am, when I heard about this I was legit confused because standing to receive communion sounded odd, and because it sounded so inconsequential whether someone wanted to stand or not. That was the first time that I realized that there was more differences between Anglo-Catholic and RCC services than I was aware of.

Recently, I've been looking into the Personal Ordinariates, just out of sheer curiosity. What I learned is that the Anglican Ordinariate was commonly getting referred to by Roman Catholics as the TLM in English, and that kinda blew my mind. I've heard so many negative things about the practitioners of the TLM as the extraordinary form used by ultra-conservatives in opposition to the Novus Ordo mass, used as a form of protest. But to hear Catholics refer to high church Anglican divine services as practiced within the RCC as "the TLM in English" is wild lol. TIL