Author Archives: Schutz

In the same article to which I refer in the blog below, Barney Zwartz writes: On power, the Catholic Church has long treated priests and those in religious orders as a higher caste, separate and superior to laypeople. It doesn’t … Continue reading →

We are sincerely grateful here in Melbourne that The Age has a religion editor who is a believing and practicing Christian. Barney Zwartz’s commentary on religious life in our city is very welcome, as is his blog. Not so welcome, … Continue reading →

135 hits on Sentire Cum Ecclesia in one day!Settle down folks! Actually, your host here at SCE is wondering where you have all been for the last month or so. Things have been a bit quiet. But yesterday and today … Continue reading →

Today I received an email from a regular anonymous reader: Do you have time to answer a question on the sacraments? I was discussing the Sacrament of Reconciliation with someone. This person said that during reconciliation we don’t receive any … Continue reading →

A Muslim friend sent me the following news report: Malaysia daily gets one-month ban By Agencies Malaysia has imposed a one-month publishing ban on a Tamil-language newspaper for printing a caricature of Jesus holding a cigarette and a can of … Continue reading →

You will have noted that this blog is called “Sentire Cum Ecclesia”: to think with the Church. As in: rather than thinking against the Church. You will also notice Chesterton’s little quote about reformers in the header. If you haven’t, … Continue reading →

Overseas readers may not be aware that there is such a personage as “The Queen of Australia“. There is, and she is, of course, one and the same as the Queen of Great Britain, our much loved and revered Elizabeth … Continue reading →

Fr Z has done a bit of a critique of this article in the America Magazine by Cardinal Godfried Danneels “Liturgy 40 Years After the Council: High point or regression?” (free registration required), so I won’t go into the details. … Continue reading →

There is an interesting blog discussion here on Pastor Weedon’s blog. You need to go past the blog itself, and into the comments string to get the full force of it. Basically, it is a question of the Real or … Continue reading →

I might keep posting these as I find them–and then see how accurately they reflect the Encyclical when Pope Benedict (or his Curia) finally get around to (translating and) releasing it. Today’s snippet is again from “Jesus of Nazareth”: For … Continue reading →