What the ECC shares with all Catholics:

The Sacred Scriptures
The ancient creeds of church
The sacraments and liturgical worship
The threefold apostolic ministry: bishop, presbyter (usually called priest) and deacon

 

What distinguishes the ECC on the Catholic landscape:

Synodality (the inclusion of laity and clergy in the governance and mission of the Church)

Welcoming of divorced and remarried persons, married clergy, women priests, and LGBTQIA+ persons

 

"We profess our faith in Christ in the living Catholic Tradition handed to us from the Apostles through many generations. And we stand open to a dialogue with those of other religious identities and faith traditions." ~Ecumenical Catholic Communion affirmation of faith

 

"While we have a 95% shared history with the Roman Catholic Church, the tradition we follow finally separated from Rome in 1889, primarily over the jurisdiction and authority of the pope, the local election of bishops, and the inclusion of laity in the governance of the Church. In Europe in that year the Union of Utrecht of Old Catholic Churches was formed." ~ECC affirmation of faith 

 

"We affirm that each baptized person is an equal member of the Catholic Church and that in the ECC this equality must be evident in Synodal and local governance and ministry; that all the baptized, irrespective of gender identity, marital status or sexual orientation and relationship, are welcome to join in celebrating the Sacraments; that the ministerial priesthood in the ECC is open to all the baptized, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation and relationship, or marital status; and that in moral and ethical decision-making the ECC supports the primacy of an individual’s conscience." ~ECC affirmation of faith