Anyhow, right from my home computer, I found two web addresses for the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter. That's right, two. One is usordinariate.org, which appears to be the correct site in this universe, since e-mail goes to @usordinsriate.org. (I'm obliged to an anonymous visitor for this insight.) However, there's also a site called ordinariate.net, which is almost the same as usordinariate.org. This isn't unusual -- on Fringe, people often go to the same street addresses in the different universes, and the houses and so forth are just a little bit different. The new chancery, by the way, has the same street address on both web sites, so if you're traveling, you can easily find it in either universe.
Now, the thing about ordinariate.net is that it has a secret page for news. This page takes us all the way through February 2015, the dedication of the new chancery, and our distinguished Ordinary's visit to the UK to coordinate whatever it was with Msgrs Newton and Entwhistle. (However, since this is on ordinariate.net, it's all in the alternate universe, which may be why we can't get to it from usordinariate.org.) What makes me think it's a secret page is that if I go to the ordinariate.net site, go to the News page, and click on More News, I just get same old-same old from 2014. There's no way to get to the newer page off any Ordinariate web site! (I found it by following a Google link.)
Obviously there's some Internet feature we're not aware of in the alternate universe.
But seriously. Two web domains for this rinky-dink operation? How much does this cost them? Plus you've got that Quo Vadis site, chairofpeter.org, which is so much the more redundant. Three domains, and it looks like nobody quite knows how to run any one of them. This does in fact happen in the corporate world, where an IT department gets way too big and people have to look busy, but eventually someone comes along, cuts out all the extra baloney, and lays all those drones off.
But my contacts with Ordinariate prebendaries have always elicited the complaint that there's no money for anything, everyone's a volunteer, and everyone has something more important to do.
So why bother?
