Author Archives: Schutz

Melburnians are proud of their local prophet, cartoonist Michael Leunig. Of course, as all good scholars of revelation know, a prophet is not someone who tells the future so much as someone who is able to tell-forth the truth. In … Continue reading →

Any discussion on the relationship between Christians and Jews or Judaism (which are not exactly the same thing) involves complex theological, historical and cultural issues. Even thinking about beginning to sketch out some thoughts in this area causes me to … Continue reading →

“Now with the mind of Christ set us on fire,that unity may be our great desire…”(John Raphael Peacey) I was as surprised as the next bloke to read in the morning edition of The Age last Thursday that the Holy … Continue reading →

“Now with the mind of Christ set us on fire,that unity may be our great desire…”(John Raphael Peacey) Lots has been said and written about the Moto Proprio Summorum Pontificum (suitably in Latin only on the Vatican website, but see … Continue reading →

“Now with the mind of Christ set us on fire,that unity may be our great desire…”(John Raphael Peacey) The Letter of the Holy Father to the Catholic Church in the People’s Republic of China is a remarkable document, which some … Continue reading →

Back from holidays, and I hardly know where to begin. Three amazing documents released from the Holy See in the last fortnight, two long looked for (the China Letter and the Motu Proprio) and one totally unexpected (the CDF Clarification … Continue reading →

I will be “off air” for about a week. I am taking time off from work and from blogging (no, the two are not the same!) to spend time with my family. That means I will miss all the excitement … Continue reading →

I found an enquiry on my email when I arrived in the office this morning from an Orthodox Jewish friend about this news report: U.K. Catholic Clergy Criticizes Pope’s Plans to Resurrect Mass with Anti-Semitic ReferencesThe Independent is reporting a … Continue reading →

Yours truly is finding that more and more these days people are saying to him “I saw you on TV”. They haven’t started asking for autographs yet, but maybe that is only a matter of time. A month or so … Continue reading →

Last night on the ABC TV Lateline program, they featured British author Ed Husain, who had–as a youngster–been coopted into some extremist “Islamistic” (which he distinguished from “genuine religion, ie. Islam” and “Jihadist”) “cells”. “How did you pull back from … Continue reading →