Author Archives: Schutz

Waleed Aly’s piece in today’s edition of The Age makes a good point. He says the assumption “that fruitful and harmonious interfaith relationships can exist only in a world of post-modern relativism” is “a comprehensive misunderstanding of the basis for … Continue reading →

I have posted another entry in my “Year of Grace” conversion story blog. Check it out, if you like reading other people’s secret diaries…

I am, at this very moment, listening to and watching Fr Cantalamessa’s Good Friday sermon in St Peter’s Basilica on EWTN television online. He is preaching in Italian, and the EWTN commentator is “translating” in English. In fact, she is … Continue reading →

I have added another short update on my “conversion blog”, Year of Grace.

Hey, everybody, someone’s finally left a comment of more than a few syllables! My thanks to Tony, who left the following comment on my article re Rocket Science and the Priesthood Shortage: Dear David, No doubt your blog attracts others … Continue reading →

I have made a new entry into my other blog, “Year of Grace”, in which I publish a journal I kept during the year of my conversion between Easter 2000 and Easter 2001 (a whole five years ago! Gosh!).

Have I already mentioned somewhere that I once began planning setting up an online journal called “In-line Catholics”? Over at Online Catholics (where you have to pay to get the benefit of the wisdom and opinion of the Australian Catholic … Continue reading →

How bloody frustrating. You know that I have been following Cardinal Christoph Schönborn’s Catechetical lectures on Creation. Well, they translated lectures one to four into English, but since then he has given two more lectures (five and six) and they … Continue reading →

Thank you, John Allen, for drawing the world’s attention to a lecture given recently by Bishop Donald W. Trautman at St John’s, Minnesota entitled: “The Relationship of the Active Participation of the Assembly to Liturgical Translations”. Trautman is secretary of … Continue reading →

My worst fears have been confirmed. Take a look at this week’s Word from Rome by John Allen Jnr, and tell me if it isn’t rather more “Word from the U.S. of A.” than from Rome. I really really really … Continue reading →