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.
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.
The blessing of a chaste life: The call to holiness of homosexual persons
When the Church at Vatican II lifted high the universal call to holiness, it rightly received an enthusiastic response. For it is indeed good news for people of every time and place. How good to know that it is possible for us all to have a close, personal relationship with Jesus Christ and even to become like Him.
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.
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.
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...
The blessing of a fruitful life; Part four: Dealing with infertility
The 25th of this month of July will mark the 44th anniversary of one of the most prophetic documents in the history of the...
New Springtime for Consecrated Life
Members of consecrated life receive special charisms, not so much for their own good as for the good of others, to be integrated into the whole Body of Christ, the Church, and to be channeled into an evangelizing impulse at the service of the Lord. I pray that this may be one of the fruits of the Year of Consecrated Life.
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....
