Author Archives: Schutz

In the midst of death we are in life: Benjamin Edward Holmes was born yesterday to Peter and Susie, bringing the total to SIX! Every congratulation and blessing to Susie and Peter on this wonderful occasion. A blessing for Bejamin … Continue reading →

I have just finished reading “The Ministry of Oversight”, the final statement of the 2000-2007 round of dialogue between the Australian Catholic Churches and the Lutheran Church of Australia. You can read the media statement released from the Adelaide Archdiocesan … Continue reading →

An obvious feature of the graph below is the steep decline that has occurred from the high point in 1972 of 148 Corpus Christi seminarians (100 for Melbourne Archdiocese and 48 for rural Victoria and Tasmania) to a low point … Continue reading →

(A story by Garrison Keillor from Lake Wobegon) So Pastor Inqvist gave up scotch for Lent… It happened one evening when Fr Wilmer called him from Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility and called him up to come over. He said: … Continue reading →

John Button (one of our ex-pollies who died the same day) got front page. Anyway, here are some of the things the late Archbishop’s friends say about him in the article: “I had 13 lovely years sitting opposite him at … Continue reading →

(From press release from Catholic Communications) The former Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne Thomas Francis Little died peacefully in his sleep last night at his home in Camberwell at the age of 82 years. He was appointed the sixth Archbishop of … Continue reading →

Writing in the most recent edition of the Tablet (“Judaism’s way to salvation”, 29 March 2008) Cardinal Christoph Schönborn suggests a way out of the maze surrounding the question of evangelisation and the Jewish people (most recently stirred up by … Continue reading →

I don’t think I have put up the link to my review of this fine book. Here it is in the last edition of “The Kairos”.

There are some out there who obviously have it in for Tony Blair. Fair enough. He was a political leader, and you are allowed to have it in for political leaders. Look how many people had it in for (and … Continue reading →

No, this is not “Spirituality In the Pub”–that’s another mob. This program is run by the Victorian Catholic Students and Youth Association (VCSYA), and it is well worth attending. They asked me to be a speaker for this meeting, but … Continue reading →