Author Archives: Schutz

Why do I like reading Spengler (the Asia Times columnist, that is)? I’m not really sure, but I was probably converted by his column “Women as Priests”. His columns often end up in different places from which they start, but … Continue reading →

I have added another entry to my retro-conversion-blog “Year of Grace”.

I sometimes take time to get around to things. Here is another that has sat with me for more than a fortnight. I was reading Papa Benny’s catechesis on St Peter which he gave at his Wednesday Audience on May … Continue reading →

Profound apologies to all my regular readers. Over the last week or so, it must have appeared as if I had disappeared from the blogosphere for a bit. (I just had to add “blogosphere” to my spell checker; get with … Continue reading →

Here’s something I had intended to blog some time ago, but didn’t get to it. I only remembered it last night when I was giving my presentation about the Da Vinci Code to the good folks at St Paul’s Lutheran … Continue reading →

I had the surprising joy today of receiving a visit from one of the readers of “Sentire Cum Ecclesia”. Really, the idea that I might actually have any fans out there in blog-world had never occurred to me! My visitor … Continue reading →

New entry on my retro-blog conversion journey journal thing at www.yearofgrace.blogspot.com . Check it out if you haven’t been there before. This entry introduces a new character into the story, Peter Holmes. If you don’t know Peter, you can read … Continue reading →

Cardinal Arinze’s onto Bishop Donald Trautman, it would seem, and the rest of the English speaking Catholic Church can rest easy. He’s not going to let the US Bishop’s derail the project for a universally accepted and improved translation of … Continue reading →

A few blogs ago, I quoted Joseph Ratzinger from his 1968 classic “Introduction to Christianity”, saying: “The sharpest critics of the Church in our time secretly live on this dream [ie. that the members of the Church are holy, sinless … Continue reading →

Without forfeiting my right to belong to the Amateur Catholic Blog squad, I have accepted the invitation of St Paul’s Lutheran Church, Box Hill next Tuesday night (May 30) at 7:30pm on That Bloody Book (aka The Da Vinci Code). … Continue reading →