The 2012 annual conference of the Anglican Use Society will be held from Thursday, November 8 through Saturday, November 10. It will be hosted jointly by the parish of St. Therese of Lisieux and the diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. The Ordinary of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, Msgr. Jeffrey N. Steenson, will take part in the conference. Most activities will be held at the Catholic Center at 20 West Ninth St. in Kansas City.
Reservations for the conference and for the hotel can be made at the Conference web site.
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I think the topic "Practical Considerations and Future Directions in the Pastoral Provision and Ordinariate" with Fr. Hurd and Dr. Marlon De La Torre should be interesting. After having maintained about the same number of Anglican Use Communities that the Pastoral Provision Office began with some 30 years ago, I'm not sure I can see the point of having a future. On the other hand it seems one of the speakers might soon be ordained as a result of being in the Pastoral Provision process for over two years. Since he began the process prior to the establishment of the Personal Ordinariate, I'm curious as to whether his intent is to be a diocesan priest that won't be associated with the Ordinariate. If he is to be diocesan, do the rules of the Pastoral Provision still apply in that the diocese has now met its quota of two?