Author Archives: Schutz

By golly, this sounds good. Anyone in or around Syndey is strongly urged to enrol and attend. I am jealous that time and budget prohibit me from doing so. Check out the speakers! Third Colloquium on the New Evangelisation Evangelical … Continue reading →

Thanks to Church Resources, I received today a copy of Dr Matthew Del Nevo’s ruminations on the matter of leadership in the Church. I don’t know Matthew from a bar of soap, but his general instinct appears to be good, … Continue reading →

My wife and daughters and I have just had the most wonderful “holiday” in Ballarat, a regional Victorian city, which came to prominence with the discovery of gold in 1851. It has been, in the past and is still today … Continue reading →

This really does go to far. They will be wanting a “Catholic Joy of Sex” next. Well, okay, perhaps such thing might not be such a silly idea–in fact, some would argue that we already have it in JPII’s magnum … Continue reading →

I know that he officially died on 2nd April, but it was this morning, 3rd April in Australia, three years ago that I woke to hear the news that he had died. It really was as if a member of … Continue reading →

I realised today that Pastor Weedon had asked me a question which I hadn’t followed up concerning the practice of abstinence and the “distinction of foods”. He said in the combox: I know the diff between abstinence and fasting, but … Continue reading →

This is hilarious.Check out the whole set at the Shrine of Holy Whapping.

Okay folks. Enough overload for now. I will leave you with this wonderful picture of the man Rocco Palmo likes to call “Fluffy”, and we know and love simply as Papa Benny. Thanks to Rocco, from whose pages I nicked … Continue reading →

I mentioned Bishop Robinson’s “song and dance” in a previous blog. I recall the title now: “Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church: Reclaiming the Spirit of Jesus“. I have been aided in my recollection by a rather johnny-come-lately … Continue reading →

Grrr. (Sound of grinding teeth…) Elizabeth Harrington is at it again in her latest column. The issue silence (or the lack of it) in the Church before and after mass. Elizabeth writes: A lady rang me recently seeking advice on … Continue reading →