Author Archives: Schutz

There are so many shocks to this story (“Abortion Provider shot dead in church”) that one hardly knows where to start. Let’s start where the newspapers don’t start. The first and greatest shock (or so it would be to anyone … Continue reading →

Okay, I haven’t been following this story, but… I remember years ago, Fr Fleming telling me he was once asked to go on a TV chat show in Adelaide to speak about his conversion to the Catholic Church from the … Continue reading →

A good bishop knows that he is called to teach “in season and out of season” – even if that season be the flu season. Swine Flu has hit Melbourne. At last count we have over two hundred cases in … Continue reading →

Marco Vervoost (now blogging at Adventures in Jesus) alerted me to this post on Dave Armstrong’s blog: Untranslated German Works of Martin Luther (Including Two-Thirds of the Weimar Werke: “WA”) : 20 New Volumes in English Forthcoming. Good news for … Continue reading →

A recent conversation with a Lutheran pastor and close friend on “the doctrine of the two kingdoms” (a standard Lutheran “principle” according to Carl Braaten) has led me back to Pope Benedict XVI’s first Encyclical “Deus Caritas Est” in which … Continue reading →

Maddy has been home the last couple of days with a sore throat. Doesn’t sound serious. Probably isn’t. And certainly not in any way connected to the fact that in the last day or so, the first cases of “swine … Continue reading →

Having spent a couple of days pondering the aversion which some express toward the use of hymnody at Mass, I have found these comments by Percy Jones in his 1952 introduction to the Hymnal of St Pius X most apt: … Continue reading →

An information session for all Christians. Wednesday 27 May 2009 7.30pm-9.30pm Auditorium, Crossway Centre Vision Drive, Burwood East The Commonwealth Government is examining the proposed introduction of a Federal “Charter Of Human Rights” and has appointed Fr Frank Brennan as … Continue reading →

Here is the May 2007 translation of GIRM for Australia on singing in the Mass: The Importance of Singing 39. The Christian faithful who gather together as one to await the Lord’s coming are instructed by the Apostle Paul to … Continue reading →

Yesterday, at the Anima Conference, I picked up a book from Mary Long’s bookstall (from the Catholic Bookshop next to St Francis in the City) called “Sing like a Catholic” by Jeffrey A. Tucker (the link, BTW takes you to … Continue reading →