Author Archives: Schutz

Following the publication of my most recent letter to the editor of the The Age, I returned home from holidays to find a letter waiting in my mail box. It was a page out of the MCV News (a local … Continue reading →

One of the reasons that I put off answering Brian Coyne’s insistent requests that I give a comprehensive defense of the dictum after which this blog is named (“Sentire Cum Ecclesia”) is that I knew that sooner or later I … Continue reading →

This is the “Fractured Christmas Carol” written by my daughters. Sung here by Sprog Minor. (Fraser Pearce’s 2 year old daughter provides a bit of harmony half way along).

That’s Louise’s question in response to yet another silly article (this time from a journalist at The Australian) on the Holy Father’s Address to the Curia (still not in English on the Vatican Website: check here). “These people” include not … Continue reading →

Cooees Priory provided this link to the article by the Telegraph’s Damian Thompson on his Holy Smoke blog concerning rumours about the post of Archbishop of Westminster. Given what I said recently in a blog about believing rumours you read … Continue reading →

Well, 2009 has arrived in Australia, and I guess by the time the rest of the world reads this, it will have arrived where you are too. As we slowly march on into the third millenium AD, let us remind … Continue reading →

I rarely see published replies to any of my published letters-to-the-editor (LTTE), but today there was a published reply to a published reply to one of my recent LTTE in The Age. Here it is: Homophobia hoax ALEX Carnie (Letters, … Continue reading →

I hope readers of SCE would realise by now that I have a couple of budding theologians for daughters. My oldest daughter, Maddy, commented to me today that she finds it strange that at her school the existence of other … Continue reading →

There is an answer to my letter to the editor in today’s edition of The Age. Someone at least was annoyed enough by what I wrote to go to the bother of finding an English translation of the Pope’s address … Continue reading →

In my previous blog regarding the use of the terms “metaphor”, “symbolism”, “model” etc., Anon (who comments here quite regularly) commented that “Aquinas’s treatment of metaphor and analogy and their role in talk about God is as pertinent today as … Continue reading →