William Oddie, Author at Catholic Herald

William Oddie

Mr Cameron said that if necessary, he will legislate to make it clear that people can wear religious symbols at work. So: when’s he going to do it?

January 16, 2013

Three out of four claimants who say their religious rights have been infringed have been rejected by Strasbourg. What about them, Mr Cameron?

A group of Catholic bishops is encouraging pilgrimages to the Holy Land. It really seems that despite everything, it’s safe again: so go if you can

January 14, 2013

A decade ago, pilgrimage travel companies just weren’t going there: now, they’re running full Holy Land tours

Have the Soho Masses really been stopped? Their organisers are delighted: they have been put in charge of the new regime, and are bent on growth

January 09, 2013

They won’t be organising Masses for themselves: they say they’ll just take over what’s already provided in Farm Street

The Soho Masses are now to be discontinued; and the ordinariate has its ‘cathedral’; all we need now is to clarify Catholic teaching on civil unions

January 07, 2013

The Church of England accepts them: but the CDF has made it clear that we do not. But things seem a little ambiguous here. How come?

A pristine new religious community in England, full of life and confidence, is a sign of hope: we must all pray for the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary

January 02, 2013

Their reception into the Church will bring many of the Oxford Movement’s deepest insights

The Wantage community was one of the first Anglican religious orders; the conversion of its core members heralds the end of Anglo-Catholicism

December 18, 2012

The sisters will be received into the Ordinariate; their avoidable expulsion from their convent has been a heavy price to pay

Ukip plans to derail the Tories over gay marriage: Farage has perceptively concluded that this, not the economy or Europe, is what will destroy Cameron

December 14, 2012

Farage understands the Tory grassroots much better than Cameron and his pals; this, in the end, is what will unseat him as leader of the party

Why is there in the Church, on both sides of the Atlantic, such a failure of leadership? Is it because it is being frustrated by bishops’ conferences?

December 11, 2012

The bureaucratisation of the hierarchy has left the Church rudderless and ineffective

The National Catholic Reporter ‘quotes’ Newman in support of an anti-papal campaign. Why is it that liberals think that Newman was one of them?

December 06, 2012

Catholics, said Newman, are bound by the Pope’s formal teaching. If you don’t accept that, why do you stay?

To my surprise, I find myself agreeing with Clegg and Miliband about Leveson: Cameron looks as though he is intent on undermining the whole thing

November 30, 2012

But this is a very long report: it needs to be read and re-read carefully by everyone involved before any legislation is enacted. But this operation mustn’t be allowed to fail

The Pope, what a surprise, insists in his new book that the Virgin Birth is a core Christian belief: ‘This is,’ he says, ‘a scandal for the modern spirit’

November 28, 2012

Mary, says Newman, symbolises not only the faith of the unlearned, but of the doctors of the Church, who have to draw the line between truth and heresy. This Pope is one of them

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth has brought Israel and Gaza to the edge of destruction: it seems inevitable; but it’s just not practical politics

November 23, 2012

Reconciliation actually works – that’s what the allies discovered in Germany: but can it be done without unconditional surrender?

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