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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.

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• Dawkins predicts religion’s early death: the Pope warns that ‘in vast areas of the world the faith is in danger of being snuffed out’. But they are saying very different things

  Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

  The Holy Father is leading a renewal of the faith, not predicting its demise

• Seventy years of Desert Island Discs has shown one thing very clearly: it’s never just about the music

  Monday, January 30th, 2012

  We all have our eight choices: but do we understand how much they reveal?

• Now Obama has proved it: he really is an enemy of the Catholic Church. But how will that affect the 54 per cent of Catholics who voted for him last time?

  Friday, January 27th, 2012

  Why do I have a sinking feeling about the answer to that question? Someone cheer me up, do

• ‘Ireland Stand Up’ is leading a powerful grassroots campaign to reverse the closure of Ireland’s embassy to the Holy See: the politicians will now retreat

  Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

  And Benedict XVI will once more weave his magic at a great papal Mass

• Jeffrey John, Dean of St Albans, celibate homosexual and man of principle, twice denied a bishopric, may now sue the C of E: it would be a sad and secularist falling away

  Friday, January 20th, 2012

  His non-appointment as Bishop of Southwark was a prime example of Anglicanism’s inability to think theologically

• Is Damian Thompson right: are the English bishops trying to smother the ordinariate? If so, it’s time for Rome to act

  Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

  The US ordinariate has only just been founded: but already they have a principal church. Ours doesn’t: why is that?

• Cardinal O’Brien is surely right about Scottish independence from England: but what about English independence from the Scots?

  Monday, January 16th, 2012

  Just as between England and Ireland, our relationship after independence would be less distorted by mutual resentment

• If Turkey ever does join the EU, Sarah Ferguson will immediately be served with a European arrest warrant and on the next plane to Ankara

  Friday, January 13th, 2012

  This whole affair is one more example of how alien to the European mindset Turkish culture really is

• The Children’s Society has repudiated its support for the traditional married family, with Archbishop Sentamu’s backing: is he aware what he has done?

  Thursday, January 12th, 2012

  If so, is this a new development in Anglican opinion?

• As I said last time, I rather like the look of the ‘turbo-Catholic’ candidate Rick Santorum: but about the NHS he is simply deranged

  Monday, January 9th, 2012

  Orthodox American Catholics seem to think that doctrinaire neo-liberalism is the logical consequence of faith: they’re just wrong