Author Archives: Schutz

I had lunch today with Jeff Tan, another Melbourne Catholic Blogger whose website is One Bread, One Body. It is great to touch base with eachother like this–and a bit of a luxury, given that many visitors to this blog … Continue reading →

America, the US Jesuit Catholic weekly, has brought to light an piece that was written more than 25 years ago in response to Carl Sagan’s classic “scientist” TV series/book “Cosmos”. Entitled “Carl Sagan’s Gospel of Scientism”, the author, William J. … Continue reading →

Ie. not suitable for anyone under 15years old. Good on the Australian Censors for that one. Mind you, it puts it in the category of the more recent Harry Potter films, and that didn’t stop kids from going to see … Continue reading →

Regular readers of SCM will be aware that we have a “little list” of ecclesiastical offenders which includes “THAT peition”, “THAT book by THAT bishop” and “THAT liturgical ‘expert’”. Well, it appears that our +Denis (Archbishop of Melbourne and Metropolitan … Continue reading →

For those who think the only solutions for the current priest shortage are summed up in the “radical” suggestions of “that petition”, here is yet another truly radical suggestion, this time from the Congregation for Clergy. John Allen reports that … Continue reading →

There is a nice piece by John Allen on why it looks like I will have a job for life in the ecumenism business. In it, he suggests that we ecumenists should be in a “festive humo[u]r” for this reason … Continue reading →

News this morning seems to follow in a general sort of pattern that has been emerging over the last two weeks: An appeal by Australia’s Catholic Religious has sought the ear of newly elected Prime Minster Kevin Rudd to lead … Continue reading →

My kids love this song. But, of course, they have never seen Rolf perform it. So I found this rather recent version done by the old Board Wobbler and Dobbler himself for them. Unfortunately, it is also a rather abbreviated … Continue reading →

Peregrinus, in the combox to an earlier post, opines that the authors of “that petition” included the call for discussion of women’s ordination because they “wanted a petition with something difficult, something challenging, something radical.” Well, here’s a REALLY radical … Continue reading →

And I’ve read a few, as they say in the classics… In the first half of Alan Jacob’s review, published back when “The Amber Spyglass” was first published (and republished now on the First Things blog), does full justice to … Continue reading →