Fr Bartus Is Busy

My regular correspondent reports,

Once again, it appears Fr Bartus will be absent from the annual OCSP [clergy conference], being held in Niagara Falls this week. Attendance is mandatory unless one is excused, so I presume that Fr Bartus has again made a convincing case that his teaching job, pastoral work, and/or family responsibilities do not allow him to get away for five weekdays. But this does not strike me as a prudent move for someone so clearly ambitious as Fr B. Perhaps one might have wished to distance oneself from the rather shambolic opening period of the North American Ordinariate, but I think that Bp Lopes is making an effort to make the OCSP a respectable, if tiny, part of the American Church. And as a Catholic Ordinary, he can move a man to another parish, or no parish, in a way unlike the process in TEC.