Author Archives: Schutz

Two letters in The Age today took issue with Mr Kristof. The first (Richard Aspland of Rosanna) says that the “F-word” (I’m sorry, we’re not allowed to say that word these days, so I will whisper it: “fundamentalism”) is unfairly … Continue reading →

Apparently it costs a lot of money to run a webjournal. And not enough is coming in through subscriptions for Online Catholics to keep running. So it is finally giving up the “Spirit of Vatican II” and shuttling off this … Continue reading →

What have all these men got in common? Not much, other than that they are federal MP’s, you say. But wait: each of them has declared their opposition to the stem cell research bill before the Parliament. That probably makes … Continue reading →

And they say they don’t build cathedrals like they used to! Check out this new cathedral at The Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. Whispers in the Loggia reports that the cross on the dome has just been put on.

According to the Rev. Gentlepersons over on “Coo-ees from the Cloister”, VCAT has decided that the indefatigable Babbette Francis will have to simmer away in private over the offensive YWCA T-Shirts worn by certain senators in parliament. Apparently they do … Continue reading →

I found this neat article “Eros in Benedict and Luther” by Mary D. Gaebler; it deserves close reading.

The Age has reprinted an article by Nicholas Kristof under the above title (originally printed in the New York Times as “A Modest Proposal for a Truce on Religion”). Its not on The Age website, and you need to be … Continue reading →

I am beginning to wonder if I don’t need to write a complete book on this Intelligent Design stuff. Brian left a long comment at the end of my last major blog on the topic. I found that most of … Continue reading →

Seriously. I thought it before, and now I know it. As part of my job, I had to read the transcript of the Catch The Fire Seminar on Islam–the one in which the VCAT has found that they were guilty … Continue reading →

“Is it true that God created the world in six days?” That was the question rather bluntly put to me the other night at the Intelligent Design meeting. They asked me whether I believed that Genesis 1 was true. I … Continue reading →