Author Archives: Schutz

Cathy: “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” sees 16 year old Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), together with his best friends Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson), entering his second last year at Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the … Continue reading →

As you know, I am a sessional teacher for a joint initiative of Anima Women’s Network and Catholic Women’s League called Anima Education. On Monday 27th July at 6:30pm (going to 8:30pm), we start a new course called “Apocalypse Now: … Continue reading →

Reader: Where have you been, Schütz? You haven’t put up a post for a whole week! Schütz: I’d like to say that I have been deeply studying the new Encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, or writing my paper on NT Wright’s … Continue reading →

This is so cool. The Codex Sinaiticus online. Wow. This is astounding.

And here’s the link: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate_en.html. You can guess what I will be spending the rest of the day doing…

Okay. I had a day on my own today, and wanted to do something that was in no way related to work or study. So I put down JWC Wand’s “Doctors and Councils”, and Walter Brandmüller’s “Light and Shadows: Church … Continue reading →

It is our godson’s birthday today. Here is a pic of him with his father, the excellent Pastor Fraser Pearce.

While there is at least one diocese in Australia that still does not have a website (cf. Cooees in the Cloister), the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has just had a brand spanking new web-job done on their site. And in … Continue reading →

Fr Greg Blevins wrote to this morning saying: Just read you proposal for an elective monarchy in Australia. One thing I don’t understand: with a resident monarch, why have a Governor General? Ah, you see, this is the beauty of … Continue reading →

On his Extra Nos blog, LP Cruz has a post called “Same Same, but Different”. He is picking up on the posting of another Lutheran, one Steve Martin from the US, entitled “Too Religious?”. The question is: if Lutherans and … Continue reading →