Catholic and American? Part one in a series
If you asked Catholics in the United States in the 1950s if it was possible to be fully Catholic and fully American, most would have answered with an enthusiastic YES! Today, many Catholics have at best ambivalent feelings about the relationship.
Thoroughly Dominican but not a Religious: St. Catherine of Siena
Fourth in a series
She was a Dominican but not a religious. She held no leadership position in the Church or society but was one...
CRISTIADA: Blessed Miguel Pro: Jesuit Priest and Martyr (Part I)
Editor's note: This is the first part in a series of columns by Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted that celebrated of the holy Year for Priests....
New Evangelization in the Americas – Text of Talk Given by Bishop Olmsted
“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” These words of Charles Dickens could easily be applied to the present situation that the Church faces in the American continent when she proclaims the Good News of Jesus Christ about marriage, family and the culture of life.
God’s Happiest Saint: St. Philip Neri
Five hundred years ago, in AD 1515, a man was born whom the world would come to know as the Apostle of Rome and one of the Church’s funniest saints.
El Santo más feliz de Dios: San Felipe Neri
Hace quinientos años, en el año 1515, nació un hombre que el mundo llegaría a conocer como el apóstol de Roma y uno de los más divertidos santos de la Iglesia.
CRISTIADA: Blessed Miguel Pro: Joyful priest and grateful martyr (Part II)
Editor's note: This is the second part in a series of columns by Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted that celebrated of the holy Year for Priests....
Apostles of Mercy — A Pastoral Letter to the Priests of the Diocese of...
Apostles of Mercy — A Pastoral Letter to the Priests of the Diocese of Phoenix from the Most Rev. Thomas J. Olmsted On the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation.
The blessing of a fruitful life; Part two: Openness to life and personal identity
A particularly dramatic moment of human freedom occurs in a Catholic wedding when a man and woman stand before the altar and answer three...
Following Jesus in a skeptical age
Adult converts to the faith like my own father can often tell you an exact time when they heard God’s call to follow Him, and how it brought such wondrous changes for good.
