Author Archives: Schutz

“Skew-wiff” (for you foreigners who don’t speak the Queen’s English) means: askew, out of kilter, off line. As in “Fr John Dear S.J.’s understanding of Christianity is skew-wiff”. I was thinking this just this morning as I was listening to … Continue reading →

The Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne, Dr Tracey Rowland (author of the new book Ratzinger’s Faith), has made the following announcement: The Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of a new … Continue reading →

I left my easter gift buying too late. I went down to the Central Catholic Bookshop today to buy one of the “chocolate paschal lambs” made by the Friends of the Mission. They are very tasteful (and one expects, very … Continue reading →

As we wrote below some time ago, the Times story “Vatican to rehabilitate Luther” was a load of nonsense. However, we were mildly excited at the prospect of Luther being the topic for the Pope’s Schulerkreis this year. So it … Continue reading →

What a fascinating documentary screened on the ABC tonight! It was, of course, completely overlooked by the Green Guide (which preferred to review “Dance with a Serial Killer” on SBS in the documentary category) and didn’t rate a mention in … Continue reading →

Pastor Weedon has a blog on the question of “Is there a Lutheran way to Fast?”. Surprise, surprise, he concludes “Yes”, and, even greater surprise, the way to do it is to go without food. Glad we cleared that up. … Continue reading →

“You know that something is changing in society, in history, in culture, when you have to find a name for it,” Cadegan said. “Sometime within the last decade or so, a number of different people at more or less the … Continue reading →

A small initiative of the Anima Network (nb. website hasn’t been updated for 2008) and Catholic Women’s League in Melbourne has produced “Anima Education”, a series of Catholic Adult Education classes. Yours truly is teaching two of these courses this … Continue reading →

I have just finished listening to an excellent recording of Lord of the Flies by the author himself, complete with introduction and prologue giving his own thoughts on the work. I never really understood this book when we read it … Continue reading →

That seems to be about my life at the moment. You can check out reports on two major events that we held here in the Archdiocese together with the Australian Intercultural Society on the Commission Newsblog: the First Catholic Muslim … Continue reading →