Author Archives: Schutz

I was going to blog on this on the weekend, but found myself caught up the whole weekend on setting up a new computer at home (what a chore – Windows 7 doesn’t want to talk to half my software! … Continue reading →

Readers know that I read The Age rather than the other daily rag here in Melbourne, despite the fact that its political and moral views are less conducive to me. Quality can be guaged in more than one way… However … Continue reading →

Marco Vervoost has alerted me to the fact that he has a new blog, Ordinary Catholic. Looking at his posts on this blog, I noticed a link to this sermon which Bishop Elliott preached at St Mary the Virgin Church, … Continue reading →

There is an old journalistic saying “publish and be damned”. That seems to be the motto of Sandro Magister on his website www.chiesa.espressonline.it On Monday he published an excellent article reporting on the current state of Catholic-Orthodox dialogue. As the … Continue reading →

Also just published in America Magazine is this: “Defending the New Missal: A response to Father Michael Ryan” by Father Peter M. J. Stravinskas. He writes: I was a freshman in high school when the “vernacularization” of the liturgy began … Continue reading →

Not quite sure what I think of its main point though. The article is by Nicholas Lash of Cambridge, and appears in the latest edition of America Magazine as “Waiting for Dr Newman”.

One thing about being a loyal Catholic is that you are always ready to be corrected in one’s theological and moral opinions by the Church’s supreme magisterium. This is a case in point. In the comment string of a previous … Continue reading →

January 26th is Australia Day. We are a patriotic people and observe our national holiday in the traditional manner: viz this Australia Day ad in today’s paper: Tomorrow is a public holiday. Today wasn’t. I was at work today. A … Continue reading →

Update: How embarrasing. I posted the following blog this morning after reading THE WRONG WDC MESSAGE!!! I read the 2009 message rather than the new 2010 message. (Thought it sounded familiar…). What to do? Do I scrap the post? or … Continue reading →

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Unknownst to me yesterday when I was blogging on Msgr Marini’s talk at the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy Conference, the Broken Bay Institute had already made a Media Release declaring “FR ANSCAR CHUPUNGCO LAUNCHES … Continue reading →