Author Archives: Schutz

Joseph writes: The sixth of these monthly Solemn Masses, for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, will be celebrated on Sunday 26 August at 6pm. Please feel free to pass this on as widely as possible. RegardsJoseph You can keep … Continue reading →

I loved the bit in Pope Benedict’s recent talk-back to the priests of the dioceses of Belluno-Feltre and Treviso when he said “statistics are not our god“. Last night, I read this from Ratzinger’s 1997 book Images of Hope (English … Continue reading →

Do I need an excuse for this blog entry? I have two: 1) Like the Holy Father, I am a cat lover. 2) Just as it is a fun pastime to put captions to funny pictures of the Holy Father … Continue reading →

At first glance, Bishop Manning’s outburst against “too much theology” seems worrying. Isn’t it precisely in the area of theology that so much is going haywire in the Church today? But reading carefully, I see that what he is saying … Continue reading →

Marco says it was a “Blogger Get Together”, but of course, it was just me and him. Are there any other Catholics blogging in Melbourne who would like to be on the next invite list?

You will recall that the Pope had another talk-back session with his priests while on holiday in July. Up till now, it has only been available in French and Italian (except for the section translated by Sandro Magister), but here … Continue reading →

From Reuters: Homosexual Lutheran clergy who are in sexual relationships will be able to serve as pastors, the largest U.S. Lutheran body said on Saturday. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) passed a resolution at its annual assembly urging … Continue reading →

Marcus Grodi, of the Coming Home Network and EWTN’s “Journey Home” program, has a list called “The Verses I never saw“, meaning the biblical verses he never noticed prior to his journey into the Catholic Church. Today I found my … Continue reading →

I think you will find a seat over there around the side.

Jokes about liturgists (more correctly, “Liturgiologists”) in the Church are like jokes about lawyers in the rest of society. The best known is “The Liturgist and the Terrorist” joke (“You can negotiate with a terrorist”), but here are few others: … Continue reading →