Author Archives: Schutz

Don’t have satellite TV? Well, now you can watch EWTN over the internet on their new YouTube channel. HT to Sharon.

This entry on Cathblog by Simon Rowney (a CathNews reader from Corrimal NSW) is worth reading in full. He concludes his post by saying: In the modern world proclaiming public and definite truths has special difficulties. Dawkins and many spokespeople … Continue reading →

Last night, I took our Anima Education class out on a “school excursion”. We cancelled the usual lesson at Mary Glowrey House in order to attend the launch of Cardinal George Pell’s new book “Test Everything” at the Celtic Club … Continue reading →

A week or so ago, reporting on the interview that the Holy Father gave en route to Portugal, John L. Allen Jr. wrote: In as clear an example of a pope changing the Vatican’s public tone as one is ever … Continue reading →

Zenit reports the Pope’s final homily on his Portugal trip: All People Await Jesus, Says Benedict XVI Urges Continual Proposal of Gospel, Without Imposing PORTO, Portugal, MAY 14, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Everyone is waiting for Jesus, even those who don’t realize … Continue reading →

In addition to the new “Liturgical Music in the Catholic Churches of Australia: Crisis and Response – Reflections and Suggestions” I have published an old article called “Liturgical Music and Song: An examination of Conscience” which I wrote in 2003. … Continue reading →

My brief foray into the vexed issue of liturgical music and song in the Australian Catholic Churches last week drew a lot of comment, both positive and negative, both here and in that “other” forum. In order to put my … Continue reading →

Check out and bookmark our new Anima Education website at http://animaeducation.wordpress.com/. We hope that this new page will be a place that you will use regularly to check out the upcoming courses of Anima Education, a joint project of Anima … Continue reading →

Well that didn’t take long. I finished reading John Fleming’s new little book “Convinced by Truth” in almost one sitting (not quite). It is a thin volume of collected bits and pieces coming in at 124 pages, falling roughly into … Continue reading →

Christine Hogan on Cath blog has come to the defence of Fr Küng against online charges of heresy. If the working definition of someone who is a heretic is “someone who should be burnt at the stake” (as Christine seems … Continue reading →