Author Archives: Schutz

I love this picture. Fr Z. at WDTPRS has asked for captions. “So? Is the Pope a Catholic?”

For those following my conversion retro-blog “Year of Grace”, this is just an announcement that another section of the diary I kept between Easter 2000 and Easter 2001 has been posted.

I hate to say it, Peregrinus, but Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez has just retracted his controversial statement to TIME Magazine which I commented on in my previous blog. AND (I really hate to say this) I was right and you were … Continue reading →

Catholic readers may not have heard of Richard J. Mouw. Protestants will have though. He is president of the Fuller Seminary–yes, the home of “Church Growth”–but he is also on the Catholic and Evangelicals Together team with Fr Richard John … Continue reading →

Good grief–what happened yesterday? I received more than double the normal number of visitors. If you are new, welcome–please feel free to drop in a comment or two and let me know you were here!

No, not to boil him alive, just to find a way into his infuriatingly annoying web of misinformation and twisted reasoning. Rachel Kohn authored a rather thoughtful review of the Dawkins documentary in the Sydney Morning Herald (inter alia) last … Continue reading →

Okay, what themes do you think “clamour for the attention” of the Pope? Eh? What would you like to suggest? Evangelisation? Faithfulness to liturgical norms? Encouragement of regular confession? Promotion of vocations to the priesthood? Deeper catechisation? Defense of the … Continue reading →

Others have written enough on the conversion of Evangelical Theological Society president Francis Beckwith to the Catholic Church. I was simply taken by this comment from an interview in the Washington Post: His thinking began to change, he said, as … Continue reading →

I mentioned recently my brief encounter with Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga in the corridors of the Cardinal Knox Centre just before I left for Turkey. At the time I was quite flustered and said something silly and foolish as one … Continue reading →

I reckon Pastor William Weedon has been reading Peter Holmes’ story of how he sought and entered the Catholic Church. Here is a snippet of a post he recently wrote: A Lot of the Angst that seems to afflict folks … Continue reading →