Author Archives: Schutz

Peregrinus has been having a long conversation with me in the comments section to my blog about the Universally Inclusive Club. I had penned a long reply to his last comment, and then thought it was too long for a … Continue reading →

Having begun a little salvo on the use of the phrase “Baptism in the Spirit”, I don’t want any of you out there to get me wrong. I am all in favour of people discerning and using their Holy Spirit … Continue reading →

John L. Allen Jnr has struck a blow at what he calls “the original sin” in journalism: “willful indifference to the facts.” The guilty party in this case? The British press, and in particular, The Times, which, by his account, … Continue reading →

I was intrigued to read John Allen’s recent series on Fr Cantalamessa, the Preacher for the Papal Household (here, here, and here). I was especially intrigued to read about the former Archbishop of Newark’s antagonism toward the Catholic Charismatic Renewal … Continue reading →

You will all, by now, be familiar with the masterful rebuttle of Richard Dawkins by Terry Eagleton. Well, David B. Hart has done a similar (but perhaps even more devastating) job on the recent book by Daniel Dennett, Breaking the … Continue reading →

Imagine my surprise (or you might not need to if you read the editorial in today’s Sunday Age) when I found a picture of St Thomas More staring at me from the top of the Opinion pages in today’s Age. … Continue reading →

They were having a little exercise over on Cooees in the Cloister looking for captions to this picture. Here’s my suggestion. Simon says: “Put your hands on your knees!” – Ha, ha! You’re out, Your Holiness!”

Yes, and its free too! The privileges are that you get to belong to the only club that includes everyone and everything in existence, animal, vegetable, or mineral, living or dead, real or imaginary, near or far, in this universe … Continue reading →

No, not me, I promise. I mean those bloggers (you know who you are–or, perhaps you don’t because you aren’t reading this) who give up blogging and reading blogs for Lent. I fail to understand this. What sort of self … Continue reading →

I have never as much as mentioned the name “David Hicks” in this column so far. Partly the reason for that is that my ability to make up my moral mind on the whole affair is almost as slow and … Continue reading →