Author Archives: Schutz

As you may have gathered from the very limited amount of blogging going on here, I am not in the best of health. I caught the flu on the Friday before WYD, and it is now in its advanced stages. … Continue reading →

We’ve just waved the Holy Father’s plane goodbye from the window of our Homestay in Vaucluse, and it will soon be our turn to bid farewell to Sydney and return home from our pilgrimage. More details later, but just to … Continue reading →

So we have arrived in Sydney and are happily billetted in a bayside home in Vaucluse. We stopped in Goulbourn for lunch yesterday, and three bus loads of Neocats were there too. Very lively singing, and Cathy was “evangelised”! We … Continue reading →

My family and I are on our way to World Youth Day (in Gundegai this morning). But here are the photos of the Interfaith Youth Pilgrimage (Photography by Sam Okun of Progressive Photography) which I organised on Sunday at Federation … Continue reading →

A small taste of what World Youth Day will be like last night at the Telstra Dome here in Melbourne. Pics and videos follow: Priests join in the Mexican Wave… There were some clevel laser light shows… There were about … Continue reading →

Last Tuesday night, at the Spe Salvi Colloquium hosted by the John Paul II Institute, Fr Anthony Robbie opined that it was legitimate to tell our children that their departed pets would be in heaven. I felt a little uneasy … Continue reading →

It has been such a busy week, I almost forgot to add my sincerest congratulations and best wishes to my good friend Fraser and his wife Meg on the birth of Number 4. As yet un-named (we get to know … Continue reading →

It was standing room only in St Patrick’s Cathedral today, which was full to the gill with young people (probably the first time in its life). As one of the blokes on the door said to me, it was a … Continue reading →

Melbourne has been invaded by hourdes of happy Catholics from around the world. Here are some pictures and video from today’s events in Melbourne for Days in the Diocese. First, an Interfaith Peace event held in Federation Square. This is … Continue reading →

I sent this off to the Sunday Age today. Juliette Hughes’ by-line in her anti-World Youth Day article (“Tolerance? Not at God’s Woodstock” Sunday Age 6/7/08) identifies her as “a Melbourne writer and a Catholic”. Yet her article states that … Continue reading →