The other SSPX bishops think this Pope ‘subjects the Church to the modern world’: in other words, they’re barking
Authors
William Oddie
Dr William Oddie is a leading English Catholic writer and broadcaster. He edited The Catholic Herald from 1998 to 2004 and is the author of The Roman Option and Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy.
The SSPX is apparently about to go into schism over Bishop Fellay’s plans to return ‘within the walls’; we need him back and should pray that his opponents fail
Monday, 14 May 2012
The media always connect child abuse with religion when it involves Catholics: but when it involves Muslims, the very word is taboo. Maybe Rochdale will change all that
Thursday, 10 May 2012
The fact is that this kind of ‘street grooming’ is mostly a Muslim phenomenon. So why?
Cardinal Brady’s situation is now irretrievable, and he would be wise, therefore, to retire; but the storm beating down on him is wholly undeserved
Monday, 7 May 2012
This is one of those media witch hunts which have nothing to do with justice
Does ComRes really show Cameron losing a million votes and 30 seats over the threatened ‘gay marriage’ law? If we could prove that, we’d be home and dry
Thursday, 3 May 2012
We need to be able to demonstrate what we claim. Otherwise we’ll just be ignored
Cardinal O’Brien often colourfully says what needs to be said; but his personal attack on David Cameron and his pronouncements on taxation were just embarrassing
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Senior Churchmen should stay within their area of technical competence
Will the UK courts and the ECHR really nullify the Government’s intention not to permit gay marriage in church? If so, what will the Soho Masses crowd do then?
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
More to the point, what will our bishops do to prevent them?
The pope moves towards the SSPX and against all those radical feminist nuns. The old ‘reactionary’ back again? No: those liberal clichés are as silly as ever they were
Monday, 23 April 2012
Joseph Ratzinger has always said ‘no’ to heresy: but only so the Church could say ‘Yes’ to God
There are, we are told, 800 million people for whom the ECHR is the last recourse against tyrannical governments. But does this argument really hold water?
Friday, 20 April 2012
Tyrannical governments, unlike our own, just ignore the ECHR when they don’t like its judgments
Professor Dawkins doesn’t seem to know much about Darwin: either what his masterpiece is actually called, or even what he believed about God (he wasn’t an atheist)
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
There is, Darwin said, an ‘impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe … as the result of blind chance or necessity…. I deserve to be called a Theist’
It is now time to undo the injustice bishops are doing to too many priests, falsely accused of child abuse and now vindicated, but still torn from their priesthood
Or do they care more for protecting themselves than for the exercise of common decency?