So What Happens

when the ACA and the APA merge, assuming that ever really takes place? (Among other things, they'll have to decide which bishop gets which territory, and I'll bet that one will be fun to watch.) But there are other questions. Fr Greg Wilcox, the former Rector of St Mary's, who withdrew from the ACA in 2006 likely under threat of discipline, went to an APA parish, St Joseph's New Braunfels, TX. Interestingly, there's now also an ACNA parish in New Braunfels, which goes to my growing impression that Episcopalians newly disaffected with TEC aren't turning to the Continuers.

However, if Wilcox left the ACA under threat of discipline, but the ACA and the APA are now in communion and on a path to merger, is there any reason Mrs Bush and the rest of the unelected vestry couldn't bring Fr Wilcox back to St Mary's? For that matter, now that Fr William Martin, formerly of St John's Chapel Monterey, is now an APA priest, is there any reason Mrs Bush couldn't bring him to St Mary's? After all, there's a vacancy!