Author Archives: Schutz

You all know that the Second Vatican Council declared: The sole Church of Christ [is that] which our Saviour, after his Resurrection, entrusted to Peter’s pastoral care, commissioning him and the other apostles to extend and rule it…. This Church, … Continue reading →

Not. Anyone who knows me knows that Schütz and Sport are not only two words rarely used in the same sentence, they are two realities that rarely intersect in this universe. But on the rare occasion that your humble servant … Continue reading →

John Allen hits the nail on the head in his introduction to this post on Abbe Pierre: I’m convinced that there’s a strong correlation between someone’s implied ecclesiology and their overall attitude toward the Catholic church. More often than not, … Continue reading →

I have made a new entry in my Conversion Retro-Blog “Year of Grace”. Check it out here.

In today’s edition of The Age, the UK Education Secretary, Alan Johnson, was reported to have defended the Blair Government’s insistance that Catholic adoption agencies comply with the new laws forbidding discrimination against gay couples by saying: This is the … Continue reading →

Over at “Always Yes”, Tom Pietsch has been making predictions and scorning them. I guess the new year is a good time for predictions. I note that Fr Neuhaus (in the December edition of First Things) has been talking about … Continue reading →

Magazines tend to lie around our house for a long time before meeting the great Recycling God. And so I happened across a March 2006 edition of “The Lutheran” (my wife subscribes), in which I found a most interesting Letter … Continue reading →

(Ta, your Holiness. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading it over the last 365 days. ) Yes, Dear Devoted Readers, Sentire Cum Ecclesia is 1 year old today. Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun? I must confess to being a … Continue reading →

There is a saying that those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it. Very odd therefore that none other than that most excellent historian, the Anglican Bishop of Durham, Dr N.T. Wright, should fall for into … Continue reading →

I have been rather intrigued by the variety of comments that have been published upon the death of “Abbe Pierre”. Abbe Pierre did not really come into the orbit of Australian consciousness, but apparently to the French he was a … Continue reading →