Author Archives: Schutz

Just a quick reminder to all and sundry who can get to the Caroline Chisholm Libary tomorrow (Wednesday 5th April) at 1pm for the Lunch Time Lecture. The Speaker is Yours Truly, and the topic is “Repentance in the New … Continue reading →

Fr Tom Elich of the Liturgical Commission has written an article called “Claiming our history” complaining that “right-wing Catholic publishers” are being “subversive” by publishing the texts of the early pioneers of liturgical reform. I rather like the idea that … Continue reading →

Word From Rome, that excellent column by the excellent John Allen, will soon be no more. John Allen is heading back to the good ‘ol US of A according to this article in the National Catholic Reporter. Not that we … Continue reading →

A report in the Sunday Herald Sun claims that Nicole Kidman has been told by “a priest” that if she were to marry again, she “could still have a church service”. Now, I very much doubt that this “priest” had … Continue reading →

A friend recently sent me this link to the Society for a Moratorium on the Music of Marty Haugen and David Haas. Would I join this society? Answer: no. Does that mean that I totally approve of Haugen and Haas’s … Continue reading →

“An objection that dare not speak its name”??? This is the header for today’s editorial in The Age. And what is this “name” that dare not be spoken? At the end of the editorial we find out that it is … Continue reading →

I have posted the powerpoint file of my presentation on “Ecumenism and Conversion” at the Chelsea Interchuch Council on the EIC’s Website. You can download it from here.

New update on my “Year of Grace” conversion retro-blog. I had a great time last night with the good folk at the Chelsea Interchurch Council: over-whelmed by their welcome and well-fed. I gave a talk on the relationship between Ecumenism … Continue reading →

Today I found an began reading a little gem by Fr Aidan Nichols (see previous blog) called “Catholicism and Other Religions”. It is an excerpt from his book “Epiphany : a theological introduction to Catholicism”. Most of the book appears … Continue reading →

I am indebted to Fr Marco Vervoost (an Anglo-Catholic priest who studied at Luther Seminary with me—go figure why so many of who went through Sem at that time have ended up either in the Catholic Church, or in the … Continue reading →