What is an Anglo Catholic Progressive?

"You cannot claim to worship Jesus in the Tabernacle, if you do not pity Jesus in the slums. . . It is folly -- it is madness -- to suppose that you can worship Jesus in the Sacraments and Jesus on the throne of glory, when you are sweating him in the souls and bodies of his children."- - Bishop Frank Weston at the 1923 Anglo-Catholic Congress
1923 Anglo-Catholic Congress
Christian socialism is a small branch of Christian thought and practice that grew in England and the United States. It seeks to set the values of traditional Christian value in juxtaposition to the values of capitalism and corporate culture. In Europe a Christian socialism usually is referring to labor movement activity lead by a Christian leader.
The roots of Christian socialism go back to 1848, when Chartism failed to produce widespread improvement of circumstances for the English worker. Chartism was a set of principles that English reformers hoped would bring better social conditions for working class people. Rather than Marx; Christian socialism was defined by such men as Carlyle, Coleridge and Southey.

The movement in 1854 founded a common laborers association, a workingmen's college, and helped politically influence some reform to benefit the common laborer. John Ludlow, Frederick Maurice, and Charles Kingsley tried to organize the church to speak out against the excesses of capitalism. They in general failed in their effort but the work was taken on by such groups as the Fabian Society, advocates of "guild socialism" and many Roman Catholic groups.
In America Christians organized a labor organization in 1889 known as the Society of Christian Socialist and tried to carry on the work of earlier Christian Socialist leaders such as Washington Gladden and Richard Ely.
Anglo-Catholic Socialism is small sphere of Christians who adhere to the practices of "High Church; but also advocate progressive social practice and speak for the concerns of the working man. The "Oxford Movement" had special appeal to the working man with its emphasis on the "Incarnation" of Christ. This emphasis on the "Incarnation" and Jesus' own walk as a common laborer during his time on earth gave some branches of Anglo-Catholics some connection to Christian Socialism'. This lead to the eventual establishment of the Jubilee Group in England in the mid twentieth century and eventually to the Society of Sacramental Socialist who still try to influence progressive political reform today. Progressive Anglo Catholics also associate themselves with groups that in general advocate social progress without supporting socialism; such as Affirming Catholicism. Confirming Catholicism has both American and English groups.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Catholicism
http://thechristiansocialist.blogspot.com/
http://www.anglocatholicsocialism.org/christiansocialism.html