My correspondent reports,
We have touched on the St Edmund's group in Kitchener, ON, which seems to have been left in the lurch by Fr Catania's abrupt departure for Rochester. No masses have been held there since November. The city is within commuting distance of Toronto, and the group was previously ministered to by a local diocesan priest, before Fr Catania's rather mysterious arrival, but it now seems to be in hiatus. The group was never large: eleven people were received and I do not think there were any new arrivals eligible for membership, but the lay leader was very active and published a monthly newsletter for many years, although this was discontinued under Fr Catania's regime. Website is not being updated. Presumably a dead duck.
I can't help but think that if the Kitchener group is being left in the lurch, the Ordinariate enterprise exists primarily for the benefit of the clergy -- Fr Catania seems to have been moved around to suit some private agenda, with growing the number of groups a distant secondary consideration. My correspondent continues,
Good Shepherd, Oshawa, ON is another very small group---perhaps a dozen members, with a priest who has had a number of health problems, although he has resumed a full schedule of daily masses recently. A lay member, not part of the original ACCC group but a former Anglican who became Catholic decades ago, has been very active on various social media in support of the group and the Ordinariate project generally, although he has often drawn attention to problems with its poor communication. Good Shepherd owns its own church---a previous rector was an ACCC bishop---so perhaps it has an endowment from more prosperous days which supports it. But I do not think it has attracted any new members. Several members commute there from Toronto; the ACCC never got a foothold in the latter city so would-be continuers made the trek to Oshawa, about 40 minutes away. Toronto now has its own OCSP group. I do not think Good Shepherd has a long-term future.
