Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Flushing, NY Ordinariate Community

A visitor mentioned to me several times the case of an Ordinariate community-in-formation in Flushing, NY whose status had been in question following the unexpected death of its pastor in 2014. I now see that this group was received into the Catholic Church as an Ordinariate community this past Sunday.

However, the comments on this post raise several questions. First, they still have no pastor and are simply attending the regular novus ordo Spanish-language mass at a Catholic parish. Other than their supervision by Msgr Steenson rather than a diocesan ordinary, it's difficult to see what makes them Anglican, other than their prior affiliation with a Spanish-language Episcopal parish.

This raises the question, as noted in the comments, of whether the US-Canadian Ordinariate has any particular focus.

By the way, this community is not yet listed on the parish finder of the Houston web site.