The piece is by someone writing under the name Mary Ann Mueller, who frequently writes for VOL. The same visitor has told me that "Mary Ann Mueller" is a pen name for someone named Sister Thurley Riley, who has been referenced in print as a lady truck driver (scroll down to "Furry Tour Guide") who has since retired, according to the cited source, to become a hermit nun. With what order, and under what supervision, nobody seems to know. I'm scratching my head -- the whole St Mary's story is peppered with digressions into people who use AKAs, as well as hermit religious with puzzling backgrounds.
It appears that Sr Thurley has some sort of contacts with the Houston authorities, and my visitor notes that her birthday is regularly remembered at Our Lady of Walsingham, but can find no other information. Her artilce concludes,
It is still the intention of St. Mary's re-established leadership to enter into the Ordinariate. Following the initial erection of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, Monsignor Steenson visited the parish to help facilitate the process. but found that the legal entanglements with ACA halted any further progress until the court issues could be resolved.I'm not sure under what authority she has made any of these statements. At this point, I would assume that any further move by the St Mary's parish to enter the US-Canadian Ordinariate would require further action by the vestry and the membership, since the only affiliation the parish currently recognizes is the Patrimony of the Primate, and much water has passed under the bridge since 2011-12. By the same token, it has been reported to me that Fr Andrew Bartus of the Bl John Henry Newman group in Irvine has stated that the St Mary's parish will not enter the Ordinariate without his approval.It is rumored that Archbishop Hepworth attended the enthronement of Bishop Steven Lopes, the Ordinariate's new bishop. However the Ordinariate has never been forthcoming with a list of ecumenical visitors who attended the event earlier this month in Houston.
It is also believed that Archbishop Hepworth is headed to California to personally help shepherd St. Mary's into the Ordinariate. But St. Mary's is mum on providing details or a time frame for the archbishop's visitation nor is the Ordinariate willing to answer any questions.
I believe that, at minimum, Bp Lopes would need to clarify Fr Bartus's reported remarks. As a friend of the parish with some sense of both the membership's and the vestry's minds, I surmise that no proposal to resume a process of joining the Ordinariate will be countenanced without firm assurances from the vicar general and Bp Lopes that Fr Bartus, who has acted to damage the parish in the past, would not be involved going forward with the parish in any way.
