So OK, let's go to the News section and see what's cookin'. Boy, are they ever on top of things! The most recent item is The Ordinary's Easter Letter 2014. We're almost in St Mary of the Angels territory here -- no Advent letter, no Christmas letter from 2014; no Lent letter for this year. Maybe it takes him a whole year to write each Easter letter, huh?
The top photo album is of Fr Cantrell's ordination:
On behalf of the Ordinariate, Bishop Burbridge of the Diocese of Raleigh ordained Fr. William Cantrell on December 7, 2013 at the Cathedral in Raleigh.And if you go to the Clergy Retreat album, you can see a distant picture of an alligator in a lake near Tampa! Well, what do you expect from the altar guild of the Reformed Province of Maybe Catholic Anglicans? Oh, wait -- this is the real thing? The Ordinariate? Sorry, somehow I didn't catch that. . .
If you overlook the fact that the newest news is nearly a year out of date, what still comes through is how inward-focused the whole site is, and not in a good, Lenten way. The photos are all of clergy or administrative events, like the groundbreaking of the chancery.
A more recent bit of news, probably the biggest in more than a year for those watching the Ordinariate, was the August 17, 2014 reception of the Philadelphia-area Newman Fellowship, including David Moyer, into the Ordinariate. I covered it here as soon as I heard about it, but this was via the grapevine, not via any official Ordinariate source, and certainly not its News page.
Apparently this wasn't important to Steenson, his vicar general, or his crack administrative team. If you want a picture of Steenson, though, you can get one right there!
Er, what message is this sending? As far as I can see, Steenson is the star of this little show, and nobody else is important -- certainly not groups that have struggled for years to form and come in. What's the takeaway for groups like St Mary of the Angels?
Something's got to change.
