You Heard It Here First!

I prompted David Virtue to see if he could get more information on the current status of St Mary of the Angels, and this is what he forwarded to me:

David,

St Mary of the Angels reopened its doors on Dec 2nd, the first Sunday in Advent, with 30 parishioners in attendance. It was a marvelous celebration with much excitement and joy amongst the congregation present.

Fr Nicholas Taylor has been brought in to serve as curate for St Marys for a period of time. He's now living in the cottage on the property since Mr Kelley was removed.

Mr Kelley was deposed by By Bishop Strawn last week so he no longer has standing as apriest as far as we are concerned. What that does for him and the Ordinariate is between them.

The Superior Court has dismissed Mr Kelley's case against the ACA, DOW, and other individuals stating he had no standing to bring the action in the courts.

More to come soon.

Regards,
Tony+

The announcement of this was apparently private to say the least. For now, the observations I have are

• Fr Nicholas Taylor comes up most recently as Priest-in-Charge of ACA St Luke's Anglican, Colorado Springs. Before that, he comes up as Rector of St Aidan's in Des Moines, an interesting shift -- St Aidan's is a parish; St Luke's is a mission. If anyone has other biographical info on Fr Nicholas Taylor, I'd appreciate anything anyone might have.
• The Rev Larry Kirchner is now listed as Priest-in-Charge at St Luke's Colorado Springs. An ACA newsletter from Trinity 2012 (June 3) says, "Fr. Larry Kirchner is now at St. Luke in Colorado Springs, Colorado where he will work to rebuild that parish." Er, wait -- so Taylor leaves St Luke's Anglican earlier this year, apparently with no plans, and Strawn brings in Kirchner to rebuild the place? What does this bode for poor St Mary of the Angels?
• Taylor is President of the House of Clergy of the ACA. I would surmise it means, among other things, that Strawn considers him utterly reliable. Yet somehow his parish ministry at St Luke's didn't work out, from all I can surmise -- yet Strawn puts him in at St Mary's. Is he gonna do what he's told, or what?

Notice as well that the title Morello provides for him is "Curate", which means he works for Morello, who works for Strawn, and he lives in the tiny cottage behind the church building. Not a deal, frankly, that I'd want to take. And his career, from what I can see, is in a downward spiral: rector to priest-in-charge to curate. I wonder what his alternatives were.