But even better, I found two posts from Mrs Gyapong, On Fr Treco, I Stand With Bishop Lopes and Exactly What We Signed Up for. .., which take a remarkably adult approach to what she calls in the first link "the train wreck of Fr. Vaughan Treco’s priesthood ". This is in contrast to what seems to be the great majority of traddie Catholic blogs that take Treco's side. As I said yesterday, it sounds like some people are starting to serious up.
But although the bishop's move is to be respected with the Church's authority, I still question the process by which Treco was ordained in the first place. This occurred under Msgr Steenson, but it's hard to imagine that, with other recent ordinations under Bp Lopes, anything has really changed. Priests in just about any Protestant denomination, if they've spent minimal time as "Anglicans", clearly continue to pass through the ordinariate vocation process with little vetting and few questions.
With Treco, we basically saw a reprise of the Rod Dreher story, a longtime Protestant who apparently sees a bright shiny object in Catholicism and goes whole hog without fully understanding what's involved. Inevitably something comes up where he's disillusioned. At least Dreher could hop off the carousel again with little impact except on his own credibility. Treco was a more expensive mistake, one that I suspect will be repeated. It does sound as if the celibate seminarians in the ordinariate receive the more usual rigorous evaluations from seminary faculty, which former Anglican clergy pretty clearly do not undergo.
One lesson here is that in fact, the Catholic Church has worked out effective policies over centuries. Bypassing those policies is a bad idea. I'm happy to see the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society moving farther toward recognizing what the Church is about.
