Author Archives: Schutz

In the Cathnews report on the ignorant suggestion by the Times-Online that the Anglican and Catholic Churches were ready to formally reunite any moment now, the Anglican Bishop of North Sydney, Dr Glenn Davies, is quoted as saying: If a … Continue reading →

That woman–Catherine Deveny–is poisonous. Following an Archepiscopal telling off for her last foray into the subject of religion, she has thrown the fat into the fire with this rather nasty little diatribe. She could hardly be more offensive if she … Continue reading →

The Pope made a strange comment (I thought) in his most recent Sunday Angelus mini-homily. He said that Jesus’ command to “Love your enemies” does not consist in surrendering to evil — as claims a false interpretation of “turn the … Continue reading →

Righto, I’m going pay this one. It’s really neat and only needs a tweek or two to be comprehensible in Oz rather than Yankee. It comes from this little site I picked up from another registered blogger on the Catholic … Continue reading →

Most of you by now will probably be bored with my obsession with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and the rest of the Evangelical Atheistic Bunch. Bear with me. I came across this on YouTube (see for eg. here) but a … Continue reading →

Not that I blame him, of course. There is, after all, a time and a place for everything, and last Wednesday’s weekly audience was perhaps not the place for this discussion. After mentioning the daughters of Philip, who “prophecied”–an act … Continue reading →

Ad in Saturday’s edition of The Age: Atheist seeks “Someone to thank”. Deities need not apply. Angels will be considered on merit. You think I’m joking, don’t you? Well, this is what German paraglider Ewa Wisnierska said after (unintentionally) breaking … Continue reading →

It was, of course, Socrates who (according to his student Plato at least) said that “The unexamined life is not worth living.” From what we know of him, he might well have also said: “The unexamined opinion is not worth … Continue reading →

A dramatic turn of events takes place in the latest installment of my conversion journal from 2000-2001. See my blog “Year of Grace“.

You don’t have to search far in the realm of the academy to find those who “pooh pooh” blogs. But this is slowly changing, and the discussion below on the meaning of “heresy” on the First Things blog is a … Continue reading →