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He is currently serving as Pastor of the Saint Mary Catholic Center at the University of Texas A&M campus in College Station, TX. Anybody know him?

Catholic blogger Thomas Peters over at the American Papist has been posting (here, here, and here) that a coadjuter bishop has been appointed for Los Angeles. Rocco Palmer at Whispers in the Loggia has confirmed that something is imminent, reporting that the news will come around the cardinal's 74th birthday, February 27th. The coadjuter would of course become Cardinal Mahony's successor (for more on what Church law says about coadjutor bishops go here). That an appointment has already been made was denied by the official diocesan spokesman, but either way everyone knows a new bishop is coming sooner or later....

Love Means Giving Oneself Away (Homily given by Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Coadjutor Bishop of Wichita, Kansas, on January 20, 2001) "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him might not perish but might have eternal life." (John 3:16) God created us in love; God created us out of love; God created us for love. God gave us two great commandments: "You shall love your God with all your mind, with all your heart, with all your strength and with all your soul. You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love,...