Now-retired Bishop Olmsted leaves legacy as humble shepherd
When now-retired Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted was appointed to head the Phoenix Diocese in 2003, he said he didn’t know why he was given the new appointment.
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by bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Phoenix, News | 0 |
When now-retired Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted was appointed to head the Phoenix Diocese in 2003, he said he didn’t know why he was given the new appointment.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 30, 2022 | Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Black Catholics, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Phoenix, News, St. Josephine Bakhita | 0 |
The Diocese of Phoenix is taking a major step forward in its efforts to draw Black Catholics and African Americans to the faith with a mission that both welcomes new worshippers and engages inactive ones.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 11, 2022 | Associated Press, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Church in the US, Diocese of Phoenix, News, SNAP | 0 |
The next bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix said Friday that he will strive to be open when it comes to investigations of sex abuse.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 6, 2022 | Baptism, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Diocese of Phoenix, News | 0 |
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix said baptisms performed by a priest during years of ministry in the diocese are invalid, leading to the resignation of the clergyman Feb. 1.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 30, 2022 | Anti-abortion, Associated Press, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Church in the US, clergy sex abuse, Diocese of Phoenix, News, Pope Francis, Retirement | 0 |
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, who has overseen the Phoenix Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church since 2003, submitted a request to retire to Pope Francis upon reaching his 75th birthday, the age limit for bishops, church officials said Friday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 15, 2022 | Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Phoenix, Justice Antonin Scalia, News, Red Mass | 0 |
In a liturgy inviting “tongues as of fire” from the Holy Spirit to guide lawyers and government officials, it seemed oddly appropriate that the fire alarm inadvertently went off just before the Diocese of Phoenix’s annual Red Mass began.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 15, 2021 | Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Phoenix, News, Our Lady of Guadalupe | 0 |
Viri González, 29, said her father almost died of COVID-19, and she credits his life to the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe. So she was happy to dance in the Diocese of Phoenix’s annual Honor Your Mother celebration.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 30, 2021 | Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, Archdiocese of Kansas City, Arizona, bioethics, Bishop Edward Weisenburger, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Committee on Pro-Life Activities, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccine, Diocese of Phoenix, Freedom of Conscience, moral theology, News, Religious exemptions, Tucson, USCCB, Vaccinations | 0 |
Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Pro-Life Activities, encouraged Catholics to receive one of the coronavirus vaccines if they discern that it is appropriate to do so.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 11, 2021 | Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Phoenix, Eucharist, News | 0 |
Holy Week is a spiritual marathon of sorts, packed with liturgies, solemnity and tradition. This year, it also included a powerful document on the Eucharist issued by Phoenix Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted April 1, Holy Thursday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 19, 2020 | Arizona, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Catholic Church, Catholic missionaries, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Phoenix, Jesuits, Mexico, News, Padre Kino, Saints, Tucson | 0 |
When Rosie Garcia, a parishioner of St. Augustine Cathedral in Tucson, heard the announcement that Pope Francis had formally recognized the heroic virtues of sainthood candidate Jesuit Father Eusebio Kino, she said she cried tears of joy.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 19, 2020 | Arizona, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, George Floyd, News, police brutality, Racial justice, Racism | 0 |
Dion Johnson was shot and killed by an Arizona Department of Public Safety officer May 25, the same day George Floyd was killed. When officers found Johnson, he had fallen asleep in his car parked at the gore point where two local highways merge in Phoenix.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 12, 2020 | Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Phoenix, George Floyd, News, police brutality, Racial justice, Racism | 0 |
Just as the prodigal son cried out to his father for forgiveness, so too we cry out to God the Father for the sin of racism, said Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix at a special “Mass for Forgiveness of the Sin of Racism” June 8 at Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral.
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