Author Archives: Schütz

For those following the link here from Mr Mullins “BlogWatcher”, please see the update and comment below. I was very interested to read this post on Fr Zuhlsdorf’s blog with reference to the indulgence granted during the year of faith … Continue reading →

Yes, dear readers, by this time next week I will be heading off to Jordan, Israel, Turkey and Greece on a 34 day study tour of the Bible Lands with the Catholic Theological College. I will be attempting to keep … Continue reading →

Some of you might recently have seen this article, in which Cardinal Koch was asked about the possibility of a Lutheran Ordinariate along the same lines as the Anglican Ordinariate now being established around the world. Some have asked for … Continue reading →

I have just posted a new article in my “other stuff” pages, called “Ecumenism, Interfaith Relations and Evangelisation”. It is an article which I wrote some time ago for three publications: The Yarra Deanery News, the Catholic Women’s League and … Continue reading →

Yesterday, when I should have been helping my wife with my daughter’s fourteenth birthday party, I was fulfilling a committment I had made some three or four months ago without taking proper note of the date: I was one of … Continue reading →

I have a very slight lisp which means i have trouble with some phrases. I clearly remember once many years ago reading the passion narrative from the NIV bible which spoke of “Barabbas of the insurrectionists”… Shades of Monty Python’s … Continue reading →

You may have read, as I did, this article in Cathnews yesterday: German Catholics to exclude tax dodgers. Like me, you probably wondered what it was all about. Well, of course, I cannot claim any inside knowledge. But I can … Continue reading →

Pipe Organ by Alfred Fuller 1897 – St. Philip’s Church Blackburn North Possibly incorporating pipework and casework from organ at St John’s Anglican Church, Heidelberg; installed 1900 Methodist Church, Mackenzie Street, Bendigo. Removed 1999 & installed in private residence Heathcote … Continue reading →

On my way into work this morning, I was thinking about the riots in Sydney and around the world led by radicalised islamists. All the reporting says that these riots were in reaction to a film posted on Youtube. When … Continue reading →

Fr Dillon liked the previous post so much, he sent through five more pictures of the organ at St Philip’s Blackburn North.  Enjoy!