Author Archives: Schutz

Speaking of “other” blogs, you might want to take a peek at the new “Ecumenical and Interfaith Newsblog“. This is a trial to replace something I have been doing at work now for several years, called the Email News (you … Continue reading →

I have finally updated my Year of Grace retro-conversion blog with two new posts. For those of you who have not visited my “other blog”, “Year of Grace” is where I am slowly publishing the diary that I kept for … Continue reading →

The Caroline Chisholm Library Presents70th AnniversaryCapturing The Imagination:GK Chesterton & Culture Seminar & Anniversary DinnerSaturday 2nd December, 2006 To mark the 70th Anniversary of Chesterton’s death, to promote the Library’s Chesterton collection and to remind ourselves of the importance of … Continue reading →

“My friends, I must ask you an important question today: where do you stand on God?” This is how Gary Wolf begins his lead article at www.wired.com called “The Church of the Nonbelievers”. His basic position is that the “New … Continue reading →

I often think that if we were to sit down and try to construct a religion, taking as our first base simply that there is one God and working into it generally accepted religious practices, we would come up with … Continue reading →

Over on Marco’s blog he puts up a quotation from Stephen Ray’s book Upon this Rock about the ecclesial necessity of a universal primate for the universal Church. Well, don’t take a Catholic’s word for it, Marco. I have just … Continue reading →

No, do not adjust your computer screen. Believe it or not, but Kmart is actually flogging off these “upside down” trees as the latest in Christmas decorating fashion. One has to wonder. What one finds oneself wondering is: is this … Continue reading →

It seems like everyone wants to have a go at Mr Dawkin’s new book “The God Dellusion“. On Nov 4, ABC Radio National had a go with “The Science Show versus God“. (One wonders who would win in a real … Continue reading →

I read a rather depressing piece by Joseph Bottum in the October edition of First Things called “When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano: Catholic Culture in America”. It is an immensely long but immensely detailed account of what happened … Continue reading →

While we’re at it (as they say over at First Things), Sandro Magister also has snippets from Pope Benedict’s address to the Swiss Bishops. Here he has something really interesting to say about what has come to be called the … Continue reading →