Author Archives: Schütz

There’s been a bit of news about the fact that the Italian daily edition of L’Osservatore Romano is now online. My Italian is not very good, so I will probably stick with the weekly edition in English – which, nevertheless, … Continue reading →

In his Encyclical Ut Unum Sint, Pope John Paul II drew our attention to the “ecumenism of the martyrs”: The courageous witness of so many martyrs of our century, including members of Churches and Ecclesial Communities not in full communion … Continue reading →

Lent officially ends this evening. Deacon John has been discussing the pros and cons of taking on an “ambitious” Lenten discipline. This Lent, I didn’t try anything definitive, in other words, not total rules about giving up this or that … Continue reading →

With the appointment yesterday of the second new bishop for Australia in as many weeks, I am wondering if the “Australian File” has had the dust blown off it and is lying open on someone’s desk in Rome… In which … Continue reading →

Lots of nice piccies here on the CAM website of yesterday’s Chrism Mass in St Patrick’s, along with the text of the Archbishop’s homily. I always enjoy this liturgy, which I rather naughtily refer to as the “cooking show”. I … Continue reading →

Sorry. I know it’s Holy Week, and we’re supposed to be all sombre and everything. But my kid’s have been telling these jokes lately, and in case you haven’t heard them: How do you kill an elephant? With an elephant … Continue reading →

Listening to Stephen Fry rabbit on on QI while doing some late night blogging. They were talking about “666”, the “number of the beast” (Revelation 13:18), and Fry quickly raced off the following: $665.95 = the retail price of the … Continue reading →

Herman Sasse (even more information here on the German Wikipedia) was a major German Lutheran theologian and contemporary of Karl Barth and Deitrich Bonhoeffer. After the Second World War, his life led him into the strange backwater of Immanuel (later … Continue reading →

An article in The Age today (not online) reads: Holy Stairs cash call Rome: Catholics seeking an indulgence by climbing the Holy Stairs, which Jesus reputedly mounted before his crucifixion, may soon be asked for a contribution to save the … Continue reading →

Good God, this makes me angry: “Monkey business lures children”. I personally think that the 199 text “services” are a scam that should be declared illegal full stop, without adding insult to injury with this kind of thing. We knew … Continue reading →