The Roman Curia has to learn both to communicate and to behave with more sensitivity
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.
Cardinal Bertone may be right to block the head of Caritas: but the way he has done it is a massive own goal
Friday, 25 March 2011
We should pray for all those clergy falsely accused of sexual abuse
Thursday, 24 March 2011
There are almost certainly far more of them than most of us realise
Fr Lombardi is wrong: the judgment on crucifixes isn’t about Europe’s Christian roots
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
The judges just think that displaying a crucifix is harmless: so why not?
Red Nose Day gives millions to those who support abortion: Catholics should boycott it
Friday, 18 March 2011
It is shameful that our bishops refuse to say the same thing
The Government, says Cardinal O’Brien, has an ‘anti-Christian foreign policy’. Good for him: so it does
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Why are we giving hundreds of millions to brutal regimes like Pakistan and northern Sudan?
Are our seminarians being taught about the Extraordinary Rite? And if not, why not?
Monday, 14 March 2011
The Pope’s wishes are quite clear. But are our bishops carrying them out?
The Anglican Catholic patrimony which the ordinariate will bring has been enriching us for years
Friday, 11 March 2011
Think of all those great translations of Latin hymns
Here comes Lent again: but what, oh what, shall I give up?
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Newman says that ‘the very notion of being religious implies self-denial’: true, maybe, but not easy
It is good that Mr Netanyahu should praise the Pope’s book: but it contains nothing new about the Jews
Monday, 7 March 2011
The crucifixion was caused by our own sins: that has always been mainstream Catholic teaching
The air strikes over Libya undoubtedly meet St Thomas’s conditions for a just war
This is a risky venture: but the risk of doing nothing was much greater