Author Archives: Schutz

I can’t find the actual text of Vatican UN Observer Archbishop Silvano Tomasi on the internet, but if reports (see here and here) are to be believed, the statement is not one that could be considered “helpful” in the current … Continue reading →

How silly some secular reporting is. Cathnews is carrying this story from the Irish Times: John Paul ‘to be more than a saint’, the main thrust of which is: AN IRISH Catholic bishop has predicted that Pope John Paul II, … Continue reading →

David:  Peter Jackson produced writer-director Neil Blomkamp’s District 9 – a alien/monster genre movie of incredible originality. Wikus Van De Merwe is a company operative who is put in charge of relocating a slum on the outskirts of Johannesburg with … Continue reading →

You know there is something fundamentally wrong with the world (or perhaps just with the newspaper you are reading) when the media reports a “Good News” story as a “Bad News” story. I refer to today’s Sunday Age story: Government … Continue reading →

I am very intrigued by this story in today’s edition of The Age: School the most dangerous place for young gays. I wonder how such situations are handled in our Catholic schools? First, let me say a couple of things: … Continue reading →

Here’s a funny thing. I use CA Computer Security, which gives me a running indication of the risk of websites I might visit. I just noticed that when I go to the Website of the Glorious See of Melbourne, I … Continue reading →

I have recently visited my good friend, Lutheran Pastor Fraser Pearce. There I encountered a book he recently picked up at a second hand book store, “Cardinal Contarini at Regensburg”, by Peter Matheson (Clarendon Press, Oxford: 1972). It is a … Continue reading →

I should have blogged on this before, but it has only just come to my attention. You will remember I recently drew your attention to the Uniting Church statement on Christian Jewish relations. In that post, I mentioned the following: … Continue reading →

The History of the Church is a funny old thing (if you want to find out just how funny, come to Ballarat this weekend and do this course with me). Today’s conservatives were yesterdays radicals, and today’s true radicals are … Continue reading →

The Catholic Church would “today deal with such a provocation in a different and a better way”, according to Bishop Franz-Joseph Bode of Osnabrück. According to this story run by Ecumenical News International, he was speaking in regard to the … Continue reading →