If enough people don't like it, the Ordinary can eventually say he didn't know about it (and that may be happening, too) -- incompetent underlings, after all; we're getting that story elsewhere.
But let's look at the overall circumstances: the Ordinariate has been changing the rules as they go along since January 2012. There appears to have been little or no communication since summer 2012, although the Ordinariate had been asking for revisions to bylaws and articles of incorporation and heaven knows what else before then; the parish followed through in good faith. Then the Ordinariate stops answering the phone.
Finally, in response to mild probing nearly a year later, they put out a not-for-attribution statement by somebody-we're-not-sure-who saying the whole deal's off. Why not a polite but definite letter to the vestry from the Ordinary, instead of some rather nasty swipes by some dude behind a curtain? Steenson did send a letter last year, after all, recommending a course forward. Why on earth play these little games? Why not act like a serious organization that's being run by adults, carefully review your policies, make considered decisions in reasonable time frames, and make them public in well-written communications?
The biggest problem I have with the Ordinariate, which thanks-be-to-God is an insignificant part of the Catholic Church, is that it's an amateur show through and through, has been from the start, and is showing no change to date.
However, I'll have more to say -- almost certainly a week's worth of it.
