Author Archives: Schutz

Christopher Orr said in the combox of the previous post regarding points of difference between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches: I’m sure the effort would be made to work out these lesser points of difference if the major … Continue reading →

After having a go at the very idea of such a colloquium (see here for the report on the Faith of our Fathers Lutheran Colloquium and downloadable lectures, here for my comments, and here for Fr John Fenton’s apologia), I … Continue reading →

According to an in depth report by John L. Allen Jnr, Bishop Thomas J. Curry of Los Angeles has launched a damning critique of the US’s defacto interpretation of their First Amendment to mean that there should be (in Thomas … Continue reading →

Still catching up with reading from last month, there is this astounding essay from “La Civilta Cattolica” entitled “Priests who desert, priests who come back” (translated on Sandro Magister’s site) on the statistics of priests throughout the world who have … Continue reading →

A recent Commentator asked what advice I had for getting men back into church life. I did’t have much advice (Peter at With a Grain of Salt might have more), but I googled “men in the church” and found David … Continue reading →

I don’t keep up much with Lutheran church developments in the States (although more, I guess. than I keep up with Seventh Day Adventist politics in Norway). But I did read this round up of the recent LCMS synod meeting … Continue reading →

I have written positively of Sara Butler’s “The Catholic Priesthood and Women” and cannot recommend it highly enough for all who truly want to undertand the Catholic Church’s stance on this issue. But there is a good review (with some … Continue reading →

I subscribe to Philip Hughes Christian Research Association journal “Pointers”. For those who like statistics, there are wonderful facts and figures that make you “go figure”. This graph above is based on material collected from the 2006 Census and the … Continue reading →

I want a copy of this book. When is the English coming out?

When I saw on Cathnews a link to a document from the Rosebank Parish in Johannesberg, I thought “That’s a bit far afield, isn’t it?”. Then I saw that the link was to a paper reproduced in Catholica Australia, entitled: … Continue reading →