Affirming Catholicism began with a conference on Saturday 9 June, 1990, at St. Alban's church, Holborn - just outside the City of London. The clarion call from Rowan Williams, now Archbishop of Canterbury, was for Anglo-Catholics to affirm tradition 'in its proper and fullest sense', not as a 'lifeboat in which to escape the present' but as 'a crucible in which the experiment of Christian life is constantly tested'.
