Author Archives: Schutz

Cf. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/new-mass-translates-to-more-traditional-catholicism/story-e6frg6nf-1225869831279 HT to Andrew Rabel for this. Andrew writes: Dear friends, Tess Livingstone (author of a few books on Cardinal George Pell of Sydney), has written a terrific piece on what to expect with the new translation of the … Continue reading →

David MacLauchlan, the producer of “Spirit of Life” TV program on Channel 31 (on which I have been a guest a couple of times) has asked me to do what I can to drum up financial support to keep his … Continue reading →

I was rather bemused by an article in The Age a few days ago reporting that Scientists announced a bold step on Friday in the enduring quest to create artificial life – they’ve produced a living cell powered by manmade … Continue reading →

Archbishop Mark Coleridge has released a Pentecost Pastoral Letter on the sexual abuse scandal. I have read it all through, and find it to be a very serious, considered and balanced appraisal of the situation, which also holds out an … Continue reading →

This isn’t a proper “Cathy and David at the Movies” column, because our publisher, “The Inside Story” (parish magazine of St Paul’s Box Hill) is in abeyance at the moment; and because Cathy isn’t here to add her two bob’s … Continue reading →

Most readers of this ‘ere blog, will know that I greatly admire the works of Dairmaid MacCulloch, the Oxford Church Historian who is the author of The Reformation: Europe’s House Divided and A History of Christianity (and who has his … Continue reading →

So said St Paul, and so reads the title of George Cardinal Pell’s new book (I am currently reading one sermon a night for my devotional reading – incidentally, today I also picked up a copy of “Donne’s Sermons: Selected … Continue reading →

Cardinal George Pell will soon succeed Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re as the prefect of the Congregation for Bishops. So reads the caption under the picture of +George on this page on the ABC Drum website. What?! Had I missed an … Continue reading →

Twice recently we have had discussions about “heretics” who continue “in good standing” in the Church: once in reference to Fr Küng and once (thanks to PE’s ramblings) in reference to de Lubac and Von Balthasar. So here is today’s … Continue reading →

Cathnews is carrying the story about the American father of six to be ordained as priest. Scott Caton was a Baptist pastor before becoming Catholic. The article calls this case “rare – but allowable”. Indeed it is both. But it … Continue reading →