The Missed Opportunity -- III

Let's continue with the idea of making things easy for those who are trying to seek out the Ordinariate. As a result of my appeal the other day, I've received a number of e-mails -- many thanks to everyone. However, I got some priceless information from an anonymous individual who appears to be remarkably well-informed about the Ordinariate.

Regarding the Parish Finder page of the Ordinariate web site, he counts 38 parishes or groups-in-formation. Remarkably, the entries for 19 of them -- exactly half -- contain errors. Some are as major as providing wrong locations or mass times; others have broken links; others have smaller, but still important errors. These are listed below as of yesterday.

My informant appears to be remarkably knowledgeable about what's going on (or isn't) -- some of this information I can't verify, but insofar as I've been able to check it, it's accurate as listed. But even if there are one or two errors in this list, the fact that close to 50% of the entries are inaccurate should be cause for major concern.

• The Anglican Ordinariate Society of the Ozarks does have "a separate Anglican Use Mass", but only quarterly
• The Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ottawa has different weekday mass times during Lent
• The Blessed John Henry Newman Catholic Church http://www.jhnewman.org/ link broken; has additional mass times in Silverado
• Blessed John Henry Newman Catholic Community Strafford http://www.newmanfelloship.org/ link broken
• The Church of St Michael the Archangel Philadelphia weekday mass locations have changed
• The Church of the Incarnation Orlando 2 weekday mass times are incorrect
• Fellowship of St Alban Rochester NY wrong time and location
• Iglesia Catolica San Agustin Pinecrest FL no web site
• Mt Calvary Church Baltimore has discontinued 4 of the weekday services shown
• Our Lady of Good Counsel Jacksonville FL no web address; the priest was ordained last fall so they have probably moved beyond Morning Prayer on Sunday mornings
• Society of St. Bede the Venerable Collegeville MN Ordinariate site says check parish web site, but this does not exist
• Society of the Good Shepherd Oshawa time is wrong
• St Augustine of Canterbury Oceanside location is wrong
• St Columba's Church Victoria BC weekday information is wrong; there is now a daily mass
• St Gilbert Church Bourne TX no web site
• St John the Evangelist Calgary shows no mass times, only daily offices
• St Luke's Church Bladensburg MD http://stlukesparish-bladensburg.org/ broken link, wrong location on Ordinariate web site
• St Peter the Rock at St Mary the Virgin Arlington TX [UPDATE} An Ordinariate group-in-formation had this name at the Anglican Use parish St Mary the Virgin. However, St Mary the Virgin later entered the Ordinariate, and the St Peter name was dropped. This should have been updated on the Parish Finder page but was not.
• The Fellowship of Our Lady of Walsingham Maple Ridge BC link broken

This is incredibly sloppy work. The few communications I've had with Ordinariate functionaries tend to be interspersed with excuses -- "We're all volunteers", for instance -- but you're volunteers who don't appear to give a flip, frankly. There are volunteers who do things right, everywhere.

In fact, I assume nobody paid my knowledgeable informant who pointed me to this information. How come he got it right and you haven't? Msgr Steenson, Fr Hough, other Houston insiders: shouldn't you have this guy working for you instead of who you have?

Shouldn't you have me involved and on your side, instead of whatever phony is claiming to do your communications work? Oh, wait -- you aren't going to touch St Mary of the Angels. That's fine, there's lots for me to do in LA.