Author Archives: Schütz

Tony made this comment to a recent post: I agree Catherine. It seems to me that David has made an argument for marriage but not against gay marriage and has not shown how it is a threat to heterosexual marriage. … Continue reading →

I came across this this afternoon while preparing for tomorrow night’s session at Anima Education, in which we are studying the Christian Traditions (see here: http://www.animaeducation.wordpress.com for more information). We’re up to Lutherans! This is a video from the Pope’s … Continue reading →

This morning in my parish, the parish priest introduced the Gloria and Creed – both spoken – from the new translation. This is a little counter-intuitive, as these are (in my parish) both spoken pieces and both quite lengthy, involving … Continue reading →

I have never travelled to New Zealand, but my wife has, and she finds the scenes of the devastation of the fair city of Christchurch too hard to bear. One can barely think how deeply sorrowful Christchurchians are at the … Continue reading →

American’s all love to hate Richard Nixon, the President who famously thought himself to be above the law. In the 1977 interview with David Frost he apparently said, when asked about the legality of his actions, “Well, when the president … Continue reading →

I am secretary of the Jewish Christian Muslim Association of Australia (JCMA). We have recently been having a very fruitful discussion on our discussion board about the “purpose of Interfaith Dialogue”. This came at a good time for me, because … Continue reading →

I have been invited to go out to Luther College here in Melbourne on Monday and speak to two Year 11 Religious Education classes. It is to be a general exploration of “the BIG questions”. When I was invited, I … Continue reading →

The banjo playing President of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod is perhaps one of the world’s most knowledgable persons on the writings of the German Lutheran immigrant-to-Australia theologian and pastor, Herman Sasse. On his blog, Mercy Journeys, Pastor Harrison regularly … Continue reading →

HT to Marco who sent me this link: http://tina-beattie.blogspot.com/2011/01/update-radio-4-and-ordinariate.html. There’s something in what she says, although I would like to think that the Ordinariates are not going to be “on the edge” of the Catholic Church. In fact, as full … Continue reading →

With (minor) apologies to Barney Zwartz and Leesha McKenny. Church’s revamp of Mass sparks rebellion by priests February 19, 1970 THE Catholic Church faces open defiance over the introduction of its new Mass translation this year, with a dozen priests … Continue reading →