Author Archives: Schütz

When sitting down to Christmas dinner with my wife’s family, our beloved matriarch declared the ground rules: “No religion and no politics.” It did seem a bit odd to me, as both a religious believer and an historian, that a … Continue reading →

The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter. It’s a cool name – and, I think, a wise one. To have chosen a Marian name would have sent all the wrong signals to American non-Catholic Christians – whereas “Our … Continue reading →

HT to Dr Tighe for this story from Virtue Online: Former Episcopal Bishop Jeffery Steenson to be named the first American Ordinary Rome will formally announce appointment on New Year’s Day A VOL EXCLUSIVE By Mary Ann Mueller Special Correspondent … Continue reading →

Just a taste of what we’re up to!

I don’t know which blog I picked this up from, but someone out there refered to a short story by C.S. Lewis: “Xmas and Christmas: A Lost Chapter from Herodotus”. I had never heard of it before, but i found … Continue reading →

Polemical atheist journalist Christopher Hitchens dead at 62 Reuters Staff 16/12/2011 11:11 PM British-born journalist and atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens, who made the United States his home and backed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, died on Thursday at the … Continue reading →

That is the title of this article in the Catholic Herald. Archbishop Dairmuid Martin is claimed to have said, with regard to non-practicing Catholics who present their children for baptism: “It requires maturity on those people who want their children … Continue reading →

I recently, through the Catholic Herald, discovered this blog: the Catechesis of Caroline. Caroline Farrow is an English Catholic, married to a formerly Anglican clergyman. This post on “Civil Partnerships” expresses well the position which I myself hold in this … Continue reading →

Here is an idea, suggested by Philip Hughes, senior research officer of the Christian Research Association, in the latest edition of the CRA’s magazine “Pointers”: Another theory is that the mainstream churches are declining most rapidly because they emphasise the … Continue reading →

I was doing a bit of web research, looking for recordings of the O Antiphons in preparation for singing O Adonai and the Magnificat (a little early) at Mass on Sunday during Communion, when I came across this: a series … Continue reading →