Author Archives: Schutz

And the Schütz-Beatons were on hand to welcome it as it was received at St Patrick’s at a special mass this evening presided over by our great Archbishop +Denis (a man who really knows how to preside!). But more surprising … Continue reading →

Well, it was inevitable that eventually someone would say something, and now our own Australian equivalent of Cardinal Kasper has said it: Ordination for women is a doctrinal issue, not just a practical issue for us. And the ordination of … Continue reading →

No-one who knows Kay Goldsworthy would question her spiritual, intellectual, pastoral or administrative capacity for episcopal ministry. So writes Rev. Dr Charles Sherlock, an Anglican theologian for whom I have the greatest respect, in Eureka Street. I do not know … Continue reading →

“Is that true, or did you just read it in the Times?” I have said it before, and will say it again, if you read something about “The Vatican” in The Times, it is probably only rumours and myths and … Continue reading →

In case I haven’t made it clear enough in posts below, “purity” of doctrine vs unity of the Church is not a Catholic option. It is a “both/and”, as is so often the case in the Catholic Church, rather than … Continue reading →

The Vision 2020 Summit meeting (which, if nothing else, proved how lucky we are not to live under a system of “direct democracy”) apparently came up with the idea that First, there will be a vote to ask the electorate … Continue reading →

Pope to Bishops in the US: This is aggravated by an individualistic and eclectic approach to faith and religion: far from a Catholic approach to “thinking with the Church”, each person believes he or she has a right to pick … Continue reading →

In the combox to the blog below, I insisted that unity is as important as orthodoxy in the Church. Past-Elder responded by saying: “That’s what makes Catholicism Catholicism — anything is allowed except leaving the family, like a spiritual Mafia. … Continue reading →

Thanks to Jeff Mirus of Trinity Communications, the guy behind the Catholic Culture website for this list of links to all the statements that Pope made during his US visit. Very handy for those of us still catching up. On … Continue reading →

What on earth is the matter with our Evangelical bros. and sists. in Sydney? Don’t they get it that World Youth Day will be the biggest evangelistic event since sliced bread was baptised? Or is it that they can’t quite … Continue reading →