As a former Phoenician I found this an interesting evaluation of the first 4 1/2 months of Bishop Olmsted's tenure in the Roman Diocese of Phoenix:
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=20977 (You may get a prompt to register. Just exit and click a second time and you'll get the article.)
The first few paragraphs:
Olmsted�s stamp on diocese
By Lawn Griffiths, Tribune
Some 4 1/2 months into his tenure, Bishop Thomas Olmsted has left no doubt that he is what the Vatican ordered when he was named to head the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix.
A rapid series of recent diocesan actions underscores that Olmsted is a loyal and ardently faithful servant to Pope John Paul Il, with whom the bishop once regularly worked during assignments with the Curia in the early 1980s.
The pope tapped the 31-year priest last fall to leave his bishop�s job in the Diocese of Wichita, Kan., to come to Arizona to rebuild a church rocked by sexual misconduct by priests with minors and the disgrace brought by longtime Bishop Thomas O�Brien�s felony case of leaving the scene of a fatal pedestrian accident.
Many parishioners, angered by the scandals, have welcomed Olmsted�s no-nonsense crackdown on seeming waywardness in the priesthood, his shake-up in chancery leadership and such initiatives as bringing back the traditional Latin Mass on a limited basis.
Others are critical of his conservative actions.
