Author Archives: Schutz

At a quarter past midnight tonight, I am doing something I have never done in all 41 years of my life: I am travelling outside of Australia. Yes, dear Readers, your well informed informant is nought but an imposter, an … Continue reading →

Wandering down the corridor of our office block, the Cardinal Knox Centre (affectionately called “The Bunker” for obvious reasons for anyone who has ever seen it), I bumped into no less a figure than Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez SDB! I had … Continue reading →

When quoting Tertullian on Heretics, one is always tempted to say “It takes one to know one”… Nevertheless, from the time when he was still an orthodox catholic Christian, here is an interesting snippet that I hadn’t come across before: … Continue reading →

For those of you who have been reading my “Year of Grace” Conversion Retro-Blog, I have just posted another entry. If you haven’t discovered it yet, my friend Peter Holmes, who preceded me into the Catholic Church, has also posted … Continue reading →

With the restoration of the Permanent Diaconate in Melbourne, there is inevitably the old chestnut about whether women can be deacons. It is pointed out that there were “deaconesses” in the early Church, so why not now? Why not, indeed? … Continue reading →

Here is a curious little thing that you might have missed. As far as I know it didn’t cause any ripples in the media–although in theological terms it is at least as controversial and astounding as anything Dan Brown might … Continue reading →

I knew the woman pictured above with my daughter Maddy (then aged 7 months) as “Grandma Schutz”. She died yesterday morning. I believe she was a saint–even though, as a faithful Lutheran living a very obscure life, she will never … Continue reading →

I don’t know if this translation fair dinkum or not. I found the link on Louise’s page. It looks close enough to former drafts I have seen to be authentic, and the one or two changes that have been made … Continue reading →

…if it wasn’t for my ears!” Proof positive that every member of the body serves a purpose (1 Cor 12).

Today, Anglican Archbishop Philip Freier has a column in The Age entitled “Let’s be concerned about all human life”. It is hard to know a) who he is taking his stand against (Archbishop Hart or the Victorian Government?), and b) … Continue reading →