Author Archives: Schutz

Here are the last morsels to fall from the rich man’s table in France. Juicy bits. Yummy. Pope’s Reflection at Lourdes on Eucharist“We Cannot Be Silent About What We Know” [2008-09-15] Papal Homily at Mass With Sick“Mary Dwells in the … Continue reading →

We have a good and healthy dialogue relationship with the Uniting Church here in the Glorious See of Melbourne. But I am not sure whether to put this one (“New faith throws out the Ten Commandments”) under the category of … Continue reading →

Related to my recent blogging on the right to hold your own opinion, true freedom, and the motto of “sentire cum ecclesia”, is this statement from the U.S. Supreme Court (PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHEASTERN PA. v. CASEY, 505 U.S. 833 … Continue reading →

One of the charges laid against me by the editor and commentators over at that other place, is that by adopting the motto “Sentire Cum Ecclesia” (from St Ignatius Loyola meaning “to think with the Church”) I have become “subservient”. … Continue reading →

Well, I’ve thrown down the gauntlet, as Roy and H.G. would say, to Cliffy and Co. and bared all once again in two new entries on my Year of Grace retro-blog from my conversion journal of 2000-2001 (although why anyone … Continue reading →

There is a discussion on the Hermeneutic of Continuity about coats of arms for priests. He has a picture of one on his blog, and a commentator has pointed out that Fr Z has his own crest. I am no … Continue reading →

What a stack of stuff has eminated from the Holy Father’s trip to France for the 150th Celebrations at Lourdes. I haven’t had a chance to read any of it yet, but I am putting aside my current reading to … Continue reading →

“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” A perfect expression of the blogger’s mentality! So, I don’t mind being talked about on the Catholica discussion board, but, as anyone knows me or who has … Continue reading →

It looks like he has a little biretta on top of his zuchetto… Is that normal, or is it a party joke? (Picture from Whispers in the Loggia)

As the provocative title for this article in today’s edition of The Age suggests, a connection has always been understood to exist between sainthood and madness. They called St Francis “God’s Fool”, and, at least to his family, he certainly … Continue reading →