It's also wonderful to know that in addition to Fathers Wahl,Sanfilippi,Adamson and Erich there are at least twenty to thirty other very good,holy and orthodox priests in the diocese.
I wonder if there is anything specific that we conservative,orthodox parishioners should or could be doing to support our new Bishop and those priests who have been working hard without much support? Any thoughts from anyone?
Black Elk and Ninenot,Bishop Olmsted has also authorized the Indult Mass which will be starting in June after all these many years.
Oh,before I forget,one little blip on the horizon. I notice that Father Fuchek will continue negotiating with a Catholic College to come out here. Last I heard it was the LaSalle Christian Brothers out of the university of Dayton. I hope that is not the plan,since I have learned that they are practically not Catholic. I don't think any diocese can overcome the rot that can contaminate it from poor,uncatholic teaching at the college or university level.
I can't wait until June when the Indult Mass begins here. I heard that St. Mary's in Gilbert might have had High Mass in Latin on Easter Sunday...do you or anyone know anything of it?
Wow!! Appointing Father Wahl to the USCCB committee is really good news.
I sometimes attend St. Thomas the Apostle's 5:30 pm daily Mass. Father Wahl is an excellent Priest! Fr. Wahl and his associate Priests always hear confessions daily a half hour before each of their Masses (a morning one too). That is, at least the one offering Mass. Many of the responses are done in Latin (Sanctus, Agnus Dei).
That all says a lot about this venerable "elder" parish in Phoenix under his pastoral care. And considering that it has one of the more sought after Catholic grade schools in Phoenix is more cause for joyful news!
YES!
Flood them with mass cards and letters of support!
You may also want to ask them to pray with you for those catholics who have been lead astray by misguided, liberal, complicit bishops. May God have mercy on their souls.
Correct, except for the use of the word "practically." Univ of Dayton is an anti-Catholic disaster. Don't bring that to your diocese just when things seem to be turning around and looking up.
Bishop pushing for Catholic college
By: Michael Clancy
The Arizona Republic -- Apr. 21, 2004 08:20 PM [Excerpted]
Sporadic efforts to start a Catholic college in the Valley could be jump-started by the new bishop of Phoenix.
Bishop Thomas Olmsted on Tuesday appointed Monsignor Dale Fushek, who has handled several special projects for the diocese, to oversee the effort. As vicar general of the diocese since 2000, Fushek supervised planning and construction of the new diocesan offices in downtown Phoenix.
He will join a project that has been discussed in the Valley for at least 10 years and began to take shape in 2000.
In August 2002, leaders of the effort announced that fundraising would begin in January 2003 for a Catholic university for as many as 5,000 students. It would be built on 125 donated acres at the Verrado master-planned community near the White Tank Mountains in the far West Valley.
At the time, the plan was that school would be operated by the De La Salle Christian Brothers, a 300-year-old international teaching order that operates Lewis University in Illinois and St. Mary's College in California.
Fushek said Tuesday the offer of land from Verrado's developer, DMB Associates, remains on the table.
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Monsignor Edward Ryle, who has taken part in planning the school, called the bishop's interest "encouraging."
The Phoenix area is "by far" the largest in the country without a Catholic institution of higher learning, Ryle has said. The nearest Catholic schools are in Santa Fe, San Diego and Los Angeles.