Author Archives: Schutz

As I reported earlier, the USCCB has made some changes to its Catechism and clarified its stance on Catholic dialogue with Jews in recent months. Now there is another development. According to the National Catholic Reporter, “U.S. Jewish leaders had … Continue reading →

“By their trousers you shall know them”. So wrote Australian author Thomas Kenneally of priests-in-mufti in his novel, Three Cheers for the Paraclete . The above picture is from the banner of the website of the Leadership Conference of Religious … Continue reading →

Well, not quite the “court”, but the Lutheran Church of Australia National Convention Reception on Saturday night, anyway. I was very happy to be invited with my Lutheran wife to this social occasion during the Lutheran’s national synod here in … Continue reading →

It’s not too late to join us for our final subject at Anima Education this year. Appropriately, as we come to the end of the year and the season All Saints, All Souls, Christ the King and Advent, we will … Continue reading →

An endearing quality of the Howard government was they didn’t actually do much. Chris Berg, “Meet the Nanny Spider”, The Sunday Age

The Sunday Age continues its fight against the “injustice” of “last week’s decision by Attorney-General Rob Hulls to grant religious organisations the right to continue to reject employees on the grounds of sex, sexuality, marital and parental status and gender … Continue reading →

You will have to agree that the above picture is an interesting choice to illustrate an article on Catholic priests and preaching. I must say I know that feeling. Listening to your average priest preaching his average sermon is doubley … Continue reading →

The Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (who assured us he has not engaged in equestrian activities since he was five years old and has not intention of doing so now that he is … Continue reading →

The Age continues to portray the recent success of the campaign for Religious Freedom in Victoria negatively as “the right to discriminate”. The cartoon above and the ratio of letters (Three to One against) are examples of this. But discrimination … Continue reading →

Geoff Strong of The Age writes: DRIVING a car on one of Melbourne’s freeways or ring roads can feel a bit like paddling a canoe between container ships. It is not for the faint-hearted or the claustrophobic. He ought to … Continue reading →