text: The Polish Catholics and Old Catholics are two branches of the same tree. It is not accurate to say that they are schisms from the left. The main issue, at the founding, was papal infallibility.  It was their contention that they, not the Vatican I definition, represented the authentic Catholic tradition. Like Burke & Co. today, they styled themselves as the guardians of authentic Catholic tradition. I suppose the American Catholic Church is more from the left, inasmuch as they were not part of the Old Catholic movement at the founding. I won't quibble about Womenpriest: that is a movement from the left.
  But the many variations of the sedevacantist ideology and the Lefebvre schism are from the right, as are a whole host of movements and associations that are not formally schismatic, but advance reactionary ideology in the church and society.  The Feeney schism was from the right, and it was only partially healed.
  Burke and Womenpriest would make for odd bedfellows, no?