Author Archives: Schütz

…(followed by bread rolls thrown at the blog owner with the port bottle at the head of the table). Well, folks. It’s time to depart from the Commentators’ Table and head back your own place for the Feast of the … Continue reading →

This is now my third post on the Pope’s Christmas Address to the Roman Curia, because I have not yet highlighted something that I find very beautiful in what he had to say. He addressed at length the issue of … Continue reading →

I put up my earlier post on the Pope’s Christmas Address to the Roman Curia without comment because I had not had time to read it yet, and lo and behold the Commentary Table got stuck into the port and … Continue reading →

Thanks to Andrew Rabel for alerting me to this note, which can be found here. It should be noted that this is the first time that this has been discussed at the level of the Magisterium (a low level, admittedly, … Continue reading →

It’s just been put up on the Vatican Website and can be read here. I will expand this post when I have had time to read it.

An excellent article on the Declaration Dominus Iesus was published recently in the journal Ecumenical Trends, by Mons. Paul McPartlan, the Ordinary Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology and Carl J. Peter Professor of Systematic Theology and Ecumenism at the … Continue reading →

One problem with situational ethics (the ethics that most commonly underlines current thinking in the public square) is that it is so often logically inconsistent. We have had, here in Australia, a very distressing case recently of a mother who … Continue reading →

The First “Word Day of Peace” was instituted by Pope Paul VI 43 years ago in 1968, the year in which the famous Humanae Vitae encyclical was released. It is worth read Pope Paul’s original message in which he explains … Continue reading →

This has been reported on other blogs, but we need to keep up with it here at SCE as well. Here is the report from the Archdiocesan website: Australian Ordinariate: Giant Step Forward Thursday 16 December 2010 At a recent … Continue reading →

Bypassing the Catholic world completely was a controversy in the Protestant world in the 1990’s about “Worship as Evangelisation”. There were all kinds of issues raised in this debate, including fundamental questions of what worship and liturgy were actually “for”. … Continue reading →