Indianapolis Odds And Ends

Yesterday, July 23, was supposed to be Luke Reese's sentencing, but so far, I haven't found anything new -- even the Indianapolis media has moved on to some new clickbait, and Mrs Fisher hasn't mentioned anything about it. I've asked an Indianapolis visitor to keep me up to date. UPDATE: The visitor reports that Reese's sentencing date was moved to 8/17/2018. Since Reese was convicted of a felony, this would normally mean a year in state prison at minimum, with three years a recommended sentence for his particular crime. My own view is that the ultimate penalty is in the Almighty's hands, but frankly, I don't think he's the only phony in the OCSP.

A visitor tells me that "Saint Joseph of Arimathea Catholic Community" is an assumed business name for Reese Enterprises LLC of Indianapolis. He provided a copy of the certification from the Indiana Secretary of State, which is a public record available to all on the web (click on images for a larger version):

This raises a number of questions. If the SJA Community is an assumed business name for Reese Enterprises, Luke and Gina Reese, owners, what happens to Reese Enterprises now that the Reeses are divorcing and Luke is presumably headed for state prison? Is there some way that some other entity connected with the OCSP can take over this name?

I assume there are bank accounts connected with the SJA Community. What happens to these? By the way, was either Reese a signatory on these accounts? Have they been removed? For that matter, is the SJA Community a non-profit? This is easy enough to do, but it's worth asking the question, and that leads to the issue of what sort of advice (which of course varies by state in the US) these groups get in setting themselves up, and that leads to the question of what sort of advice these groups get in shutting themselves down.

So we've reached a situation where something will need to be done to tidy up the legal situation of the SJA Community. But de facto, the DW mass at 8:00 AM Sundays at Most Holy Rosary, now celebrated by diocesan priests on the diocesan premises, is no different from the Latin mass celebrated there, or the Spanish mass (or Lithuanian or Korean) celebrated in diocesan parishes anywhere else. What, precisely, is the need for an OCSP presence in Indianapolis? Well, of course, it's to transmit the precious treasures of the Anglican spiritual patrimony, which are entirely different from the precious treasures of, say, the Spanish spiritual patrimony, which need no interpretation, just a Spanish mass at 5:00.

Just wondering. But there will inevitably be more scandals, due to the distances from Houston, the lack of supervision, and slapdash formation endemic to the OCSP. The diocesan bishops are going to have to keep asking these questions.