The new text is resonant and accurate: it puts to shame the translations we use at the moment
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.
Why have our bishops done nothing to prepare us for the new Mass translation?
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Would I ever throw a cat in a wheelie bin? I wish I could be sure
Monday, 30 August 2010
In fact, I suspect that I might be capable of something much worse
If corruption is not tackled urgently, Pakistan won’t get the money it needs
Friday, 27 August 2010
To begin with, where did President Ali Zardari get his personal fortune of £1.5 billion? I only ask
The closure of a 500-year-old ironmonger’s marks the death of something in our national soul
Thursday, 26 August 2010
Gill and Gill traded under 20 monarchs and 76 prime ministers: now we are living in a new and impersonal world
Cardinal Conway was wrong to send a terrorist priest to another parish
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Imagine discovering that you have regularly received the sacraments from a mass murderer
Prison officers are sceptical that Jon Venables is really repentant for his sins
Monday, 23 August 2010
But even if they believed him, they would still be out for retribution, not rehabilitation
The papal visit souvenirs are too tasteful – I say bring back the Benny Bear
Friday, 20 August 2010
Where, oh where is the gaudiness (and enthusiasm) we expect from Catholic tat?
Closing a Catholic adoption agency is not in the ‘interests of children’
Thursday, 19 August 2010
Our descendants will look back in amazement at the gullibility of our age
How anti-Christian is the Green movement?
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Cardinal Pell has got it right: the Green ethic IS designed to replace Judaeo-Christianity
The lie that Newman was cold and aloof needs to be hit on the head
There are so many stories about his warmth and charity it is hard to know where to begin