The Diocese of Phoenix is denying a report that the Roman Catholic bishop of Phoenix is headed to the Vatican.
Rob DeFrancesco told The Associated Press on Sunday that a report in an Italian newspaper that Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted was going to Rome for a Vatican post is false.
Italy's La Stampa recently reported that Olmsted was slated to become secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life. That office oversees religious orders in the world.
Officials say Olmsted was in Rome this weekend for a meeting.
Olmsted was appointed bishop of Phoenix in 2003, replacing Bishop Thomas J. O'Brien.
Leon Ceniceros posted at 4:34 pm on Mon, Dec 10, 2012.
Phoenix Diocese needs a ...."Sheriff Joe" Bishop.
A Hispanic one that can go on the Local Spanish-Language TV and read them the riot act....get the nuns and sisters back in the "habit"...bring back the Communion rail (no more "hand-held" Hosts (those hands aren't ...."CONSECRATED"...why should they touch the Host ???
GET RID OF ...."VERNACULAR" MASSES.....ALL MASSES SHOULD BE SAID IN LATIN AND GET RID OF THAT RIDICULOUS ....."MASS OF CELEBRATION".....WHEN SOMEONE DIES.....GIVE THEM THE OLD...."REQUEUM" MASS......GET RID OF THE GUITARS, THE TAMBORINES...THE VIOLINS AND BRING BACK THE ORGAN AND THE OLD LATIN HYMNS..........IF YOU WANT TO BE A CATHOLIC THEN PRAY LIKE ACT LIKE ONE.....NOT SOME EPISCOPALIAN OR ANGLICAN.