Author Archives: Schutz

One of the bits I really enjoyed from Sacramentum Caritatis is from paragraph 66, where Benedict scores a direct hit against the enemies of Eucharistic Adoration: A growing appreciation of this significant aspect of the Church’s faith has been an … Continue reading →

If you do a Google blog search of “disappointed” and “Sacramentum Caritatis”, you will score quite a few hits. Many of course were hoping for the Motu Proprio, which now appears as distant as ever. Many others were hoping for … Continue reading →

When I read Archbishop Denis Hart’s Press Release on Human Cloning yesterday, I thought, I should blog on that. Little did I expect that Barney Zwartz would beat me to it, and give His Grace’s objection front page headlines in … Continue reading →

I said I was going to bed to read Sacramentum Caritatis, didn’t I? But I was sidetracked by the fact that my site-meter recorded more than 85 people visiting my blog today. Where are they all coming from, I wondered? … Continue reading →

Yes, Sacramentum Caritatis is here folks. I am about to print it off and retire to bed to read it through. All the work I had lined up for this evening can now take a running jump. Nothing about the … Continue reading →

Well, by the time you read this, dear Reader, you will probably find this page filled with a wondrous meditation and serious direction on the Holy Eucharist. But at the moment (9:36pm EST, or 10:36am GMT) it is a stark, … Continue reading →

In a recent comment on this blog, the inestimable Peregrinus wrote: I think there is a fairly large body of Christians whose faith is not primarily theological. …Their faith is not necessarily expressed in, or founded on, a firm belief … Continue reading →

For those of you not familiar with the story and Daniel 5, that’s “The Writing on the Wall”. And its there for all to see in the latest statistics of United States Christian denominations collected by the US National Council … Continue reading →

I have made a new posting on my “Year of Grace” conversion retro-blog. By the start of January 2001 things were coming rapidly to a head, and God faced me with the biggest temptation of my life: He gave me … Continue reading →

Cardinal Ruini, fresh out of a job with the Italian bishops’ conference, returns to his vocation as a teacher of theology and philosophy in this address translated on Sandro Magister’s site. Here he confidently asserts that “the great objective of … Continue reading →