Author Archives: Schutz

Here is my “report card” for the Catholic Church on the basis of the results of the Spirituality of Generation Y survey and report. “In February and March 2005, a national telephone survey was conducted with the assistance of the … Continue reading →

Very much worth reading is Dennis Shanahan’s peace in the August 18 edition of The Australian: ‘Heads I win, tails you lose’. He writes about the way that a number of Conservative MPs declared that they would vote against the … Continue reading →

I recently came across reference to Peter Berger’s aphorism that, if India is the most religious nation in the world and Sweden the least religious, then the United States of America is a nation of Indians ruled by Swedes. Apparently … Continue reading →

John Allen, in his latest edition of All Things Catholic, has this to say: “Christianity is supposed to provide an “optic” for reading the world that is different from purely human logic. If that’s true, one would expect Christians to … Continue reading →

Without solicitation, Barry Kearney (a parishioner of St Anne’s Parish in Park Orchards) has forwarded his vision for the “Future Church in Australia” to a very large number of folk in the Archdiocese. He rather innocently suggested that we should … Continue reading →

I have posted a new entry into my “conversion retro-blog”: Year of Grace.

I was shocked recently by a priest who said to me that he prays every day for the downfall of Islam. As if to explain, he told me that he believes that Islam is “of the devil”, and that the … Continue reading →

There are worrying developments in the business of the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act in Victoria. I have, from the very beginning, been a cautious defender of the laws, on the grounds that no Christian should ever be guilty of … Continue reading →

I have two wonderful daughter, the oldest of whom (Maddy, aged 7) has just received her first holy communion in her parish, St Paul’s Lutheran Church in Box Hill. As you can see from the picture, she is receiving communion … Continue reading →

I have been reading some interesting stuff about the attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church towards ecumenism. None of this is new material, in fact, most of it appeared around about the year 2000. This is led some to compare … Continue reading →