Following his move to Kansas City, Fr Sly's primary job has been as associate pastor of the St Therese diocesan parish there. This appears to be a parish of normal size with four Sunday masses. The Kansas City Ordinariate group is Our Lady of Hope, which meets at the Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic parish and has what I assume is a BDW mass at 9:15 on Sundays. The Our Lady of Sorrows host parish is a small and apparently declining one that had been under Fr Anthony Pileggi, who has been transferred full time to the diocesan marriage tribunal.
The Our Lady of Hope Ordinariate group has been under Fr Davis, a former Pastoral Provision priest. However, he has announced that effective July 1, he will be on a six-month sabbatical and will apparently undertake other duties on his return. In addition, a pilgrimage to Walsingham that it had been anticipated he would lead in September has been canceled for lack of interest.
Fr Joseph Cisetti announced in the latest St Therese parish newsletter that Bishop Johnston had requested that Fr Sly take over as administrator of the Our Lady of Sorrows parish until the end of the year, maintaining his duties as associate at St Therese. He doesn't mention Fr Sly's Ordinariate connection, but I assume Fr Sly will also take over the Our Lady of Hope group as well. That the diocesan bishop would want to expand Fr Sly's duties outside the Ordinariate seems to speak well of him, and Fr Cisetti seems to speak will of him in the newsletter. While some people have been skeptical of the formation some former CEC priests received, the fact that Fr Sly was also a former Wesleyan Methodist pastor may have been an advantage for him and the St Therese parish.
A visitor has clarified some of the circumstances surrounding the St Bede group in St Paul Park, MN. According to that visitor, the entire St Bede's group decided to relocate to St Paul Park, although its administrator did remain in the abbey in Collegeville. "A major consideration was demographics: the larger and generally more cosmopolitan population in the Twin Cities provided more opportunities for growth, it seemed, than would be the case in rural Collegeville." However, members drifted away from the group following the move.
In November 2015 some members of the original St Bede's group decided to form a new group, the St. Benet Biscop Chapter of St. John’s Oblates, that would allow them to "begin again" in Collegeville. "Though most of the 20 members of the St. Benet Biscop Chapter are members of the OCSP, the chapter itself is not under the jurisdiction of the OCSP but of the abbot of St. John’s." Nevertheless, Bp Lopes has contacted the group and expressed his support. To tell the truth, I'm not sure how to parse this, but I post it here in the context that in the visitor's opinion there was never a "split" among the St Bede's group.
In addition, the visitor clarifies that the group did in fact contact Msgr Steenson well before moving to St Paul Park. "It was Monsignor Steenson who contacted Bishop Cozzens." In any case, the initiative to have Fr Treco ordained would have come from Msgr Steenson. However, it's difficult to avoid seeing some subtext in the visitor's remarks that the "new start" in the Oblate group came from some level of dissatisfaction with Fr Treco, whose "Protestant Evangelical" formation "gave the members of St. Bede’s pause".
Frs Sly and Treco seem to be different people.
