Clarification

A regular visitor refers to remarks from my correspondent, who said,

". . .Luke Reese, a former ACA clergyman with no M.Div, was taking courses at St Meinrad seminary for three years before his ordination for the OCSP this spring."

In fact, I noticed in the list of this year's graduating class from St. Meinrad School of Theology which I receive as an alumnus (Master of Theological Studies in Pastoral Ministry, 1992) that (Fr.) Luke Reese was on the list of graduates -- but with a Master of Arts (MA) in Theology, which is normally a degree for lay ministry, rather than with a Master of Divinity (MDiv), which is the normal seminary degree -- probably because the MA in Theology was the better match for the coursework that he needed to prepare for Catholic ordination.

I also believe that (Fr.) Luke Reese had a significant head start on his preparation for Catholic ordination. In a reply on the blog "The Anglo-Catholic" (which is now essentially defunct) some time before the formal erection of the ordinariate, I recommended to him that [he] meet with Bishop Christopher Coyne, then Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis (and now Bishop of Burlington, Vermont), to establish a working relationship. I believe that he did make contact, and thus began his studies before the formal erection of the ordinariate. In any case, the fact that he took over three years to complete an MA in Theology, which requires only 48 hours of coursework, strongly suggests that he was a part time student rather than a true seminarian.