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The blessing of a chaste life The call to holiness of homosexual persons When the Church at Vatican II lifted high the universal call to holiness, it rightly received an enthusiastic response. For it is indeed good news for people of every time and place. How good to know that it is possible for us all to have a close, personal relationship with Jesus Christ and even to become like Him. God creates each person in love. He redeems each with a love even unto death on the Cross. He calls each of us to share in this amazing love...

<p>For the parishioners lined up outside Immaculate Heart Catholic Church, the arrival of Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted marked a new beginning. And they were there to witness it.</p> <p>"It was very beautiful, a precious thing," said Alicia Luna, 52, of Phoenix.</p>

<p>A conservative Catholic bishop, handpicked by Pope John Paul II for most of his clerical assignments over a 30-year career, takes over next month as spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix.</p> <p>The appointment Tuesday of the Most Rev. Thomas J. Olmsted, bishop of Wichita, Kan., fits a pattern of several recent bishop assignments: a church leader who studied and worked in Rome, is considered orthodox in his belief and faithful to the pope.</p>

Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1903) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828-1892) have been highly controversial figures in biblical history.