Anglicanorum Coetibus Society Annual Meeting

In response to my request the other day to see material that's distributed to Anglicanorum Coetibus Society members regarding elections and other business, a visitor kindly sent me the following:

with the comment,

May be of interest - I still get these emails even though I haven't been a paying member of ACS since 2017 (and have asked to be dropped from the list more than once).

[Name redacted]

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On Wednesday, July 15, 2020 1:29 PM, AC Society wrote:

Dear Members:

Thank you to those who have sent in their ballots and proxies! We need more, however, to reach a quorum.

You can fill it out in Word and send it back to me---no need to scan if that's a difficulty.

I am attaching the document that includes the notice of meeting, the ballot and the proxy.

All the best,

Deborah Gyapong

It sounds as though, at least from the time she sent the e-mail, Mrs Gyapong was having a hard time generating enough interest in the society to find a quorum for the meeting. On the other hand, the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society blog only occasionally covers the society's business, and it's been only recently here that the membership of the board has been made public.

I'm also told that there's been a certain level of disagreement with Houston and Bp Lopes on how the society should operate in key areas. It's been suggested to me that, since the society is a lay group operating as a secular corporation, some attempts by Houston to interfere in its operation are not fully appropriate.

However, this may well reflect difficulty in interpersonal relations by actors on both sides. But in any case, insofar as important work could possibly be accomplished if the society and Houston were to cooperate more closely, it isn't being accomplished, to the detriment of the society and the ordinariate.

I would have to think that major changes in personnel would be needed in both organizations to get much of significance done.