Author Archives: Schutz

My thanks to Fr Richard John Neuhaus for this reference which is surely helpful in our assessment of Pope Honorius–who had the misfortune to go down in history as having his (possibly) monothelitist opinion condemned by the Sixth Ecumenical Council. … Continue reading →

Over on Pastor Weedon’s Blog, Paul T. McCain makes the following comment: Lutheranism is the pure and true confession of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic faith. We name this confession “Lutheranism” to hold it in contradistinction from every other … Continue reading →

I was visiting Pastor Weedon’s blog as I do from time to time to keep up with things at the saner end of Lutheranism in the States, and there read his post “On the Platonic Church”. Here is the gist … Continue reading →

Hound of Heaven has sent a cooee from the Cloister which merits a repeat of this papal photo moment–this time together with HoH’s suggested caption. I think you will enjoy it. Will you people be quiet! I’m tryyying to watch … Continue reading →

This is either a really cruel joke in incredible bad taste by the editors of the Eureka Street website, or… I don’t know “or” what. There is an excellent article by Father Chris Middleton in the current edition of Eureka … Continue reading →

Many newspapers and agencies (eg. here and here and here) are carrying the Reuters report about a comment made by Cardinal Bertone to the Italian newspaper “La Stampa” in which he reportedly said that the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue … Continue reading →

A large op-ed piece entitled “With God on side” in The Sunday Age today takes up Catherine Deveney’s gushing review of Richard Dawkin’s documentary “The God Delusion?” from last week’s Saturday Age. The author, Cheryl Lawrie, works for the Uniting … Continue reading →

Also in this morning’s paper was the article “No doctor, no midwife — women go it alone” on “freebirthing”. It is quite a heartwarming article–you feel for the mother after the medical interventions of the first two births. Child three … Continue reading →

I am having a rare moment of a lazy morning at home on the Sabbath. No, I’m not skipping mass for the sake of a good lie-in (that would be a mortal sin)–it is my intention to attend the Latin … Continue reading →

I can’t for the life of me think of a caption for this one. Can you?