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Were you raised Roman Catholic or Anglican?
Neither. My parents are lapsed Catholics, and they were very critical of any institutionalised church. I was not raised going to church, but I was raised to believe the Bible, pray, etc.
So when I wanted more than that, as a teenager and young adult, I was confronted with the question of where to look. Roman Catholicism was an obvious starting point given my family's background, but my explorations of Catholicism always ran aground on an infallible magisterium. I found myself at home in Anglicanism instead.
It is probably as you say, yes.
Here's a way of looking at it...
If we consider the Anglicans who are the most like Roman Catholics--Anglo-Catholics or Anglo-Papalists are terms that have been used--it has been said that they are not all peas in a pod, just as Evangelical Anglicans are not all carbon copies of each other. However, it is said also that there are four RC doctrines which cause all of them to draw the line.
1. Papal Supremacy (and Infallibility)
2. Transubstantiation
3. Purgatory
4. The Marian dogmas of the Assumption and the Immaculate Conception.
That rule of thumb not withstanding, I do know some Anglo-Catholics who believe one or more of points #2, 3, and 4. None accept #1 on the list. The closest that some of them might come would be to accept some sort of primacy of honor (only) for the bishop of Rome, probably also including the historic title, Patriarch of the West.
I know some outer-edge-Anglo-Catholics who would believe to some degree in all four but are Anglican because of issues with the way Catholicism handles women and sexuality. (Eg. Women with vocations to ordination, or men who want to be priests but also marry).
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