Author Archives: Schutz

I don’t pay much attention to American politics, but here is an interesting story on Cathnews which has its origin in this CNSNews.com story “Obama names Pope-basher to Faith-Based Initiatives Board”.

Yesterday, Paul O’Shea’s excellent piece of work “A Cross Too Heavy: Eugenio Pacelli” arrived on my desk. It is an excellent piece of historical work. Paul’s own historical accounts are, from what I have read thus far, very sound. Yet … Continue reading →

Just for interest, take a squiz at this “world map” from my stats page. It shows where recent readers to the blog have logged in all over the world. Can you identify yourself on this map? The one up the … Continue reading →

This is a last minute plug for tonight’s event. If you are in Melbourne, please come and join us!

It’s not too late to join my current Anima Education course at Mary Glowry House. Come one, come all!

I made a passing reference in a post below to the Pope’s message to the Bishops of England and Wales at their Ad Limina meeting this week. There are a couple of points that need to be “headlined” other than … Continue reading →

The message of this RealCatholicTV.com seems serious enough. I’m not so sure of the “CNN”-style approach though (“The Vortex”?). Perhaps it doesn’t help that we have had our own “CNN-spoofs” here in Australia (such as The Chasers’ CNNN).

In the newspapers today is the headline: Pope attacks Britain’s gay equality laws. The story comes from the Telegraph, via, I suspect, this UKPA story “Pope attacks equality laws in UK”, but it took The Age to add the word … Continue reading →

Son of Trypho pointed me to a rather bizarre story on ABC Radio’s AM program this morning concerning the fallout of Fr Peter Kennedy’s use of invalid baptismal formulae at St Mary’s in South Brisbane: “Ruthless Church accused of re-writing … Continue reading →

Well big news in Melbourne is that the “Global Atheism Convention” has “sold out”. Apparently they have 2500 coming for the March 12-14 event. Let’s see… World Parliament of Religions got 5,500… so does that mean that the Religions are … Continue reading →