William Oddie, Author at Catholic Herald

William Oddie

Why, in today’s paper, I wrote that it was Pope John Paul who made it possible for me (with many others) at last to be received into the Church

April 25, 2014

He re-established the simple but immense fact of the Church’s authority to declare the objective truth of Catholic doctrine

John Paul II set the barque back on course

April 24, 2014

Pope John Paul’s major achievement for the Church was to recover Pope John’s original purpose: to “guard” and to teach more efficaciously “the sacred deposit of Christian doctrine”

Should Pope Francis have abandoned the trappings of his office? The media image now is of a pontiff rejecting the traditions of the Church

April 11, 2014

Pope Benedict was no less a pontiff of profound personal humility because he wore red shoes and lived in the papal apartments

What will the synod on the family decide about Holy Communion for remarried divorcees wrongly denied an annulment? As Pope Benedict says ‘mistakes occur’

April 04, 2014

What we need is an intelligent application of the science of casuistry: after all, we have a Jesuit Pope: Jesuits are supposed to be good at it

This is still a Christian culture: but the Law Society is now encouraging Sharia principles that are deeply hostile to our values

March 27, 2014

Our democracy is built on the fundamental principle that we are one nation and that there is one law for everyone

What now is the future for the English episcopate? Just when things weren’t looking too hopeful, we get another Ratzingerian appointment. What’s going on?

March 20, 2014

Is Fr Robert Byrne’s appointment a sign of things to come? How many more orthodox bishops can we now expect?

No one has done more than the Church to address the problem of child abuse, says the Pope. This is a problem for all of society: time to throw off our scapegoat status

March 07, 2014

The trouble with using the Church as a scapegoat is that it allows society to avoid facing its own more serious sex abuse crisis

Blame the Government for food banks where they are really culpable: but this is mainly a global problem – and bishops need to understand that. And the EU doesn’t help

February 28, 2014

Episcopal attacks on politicians are just too easy; politicians are always unpopular. But the Government isn’t always to blame for much of for the real hardship

Our new Cardinal’s attack on Iain Duncan Smith’s benefits reform policies shows that he has a lot to learn about the spiritual blight of welfare dependency

February 21, 2014

This is not a good start to his cardinalatial ministry; he admits that he might benefit from a ministerial briefing on the complexities of government policy. He should ask for one

A Securitate General says that Hochhuth’s play was part of a KGB plot against Pius XII’s reputation. The National Catholic Register attempts to discredit this: but serious historians believe it

February 13, 2014

The NCR’s scepticism is shared by the author of Hitler’s Pope: shouldn’t that in itself give pause for thought?

Another Jewish historian concludes that the latest research ‘erases’ the image of a Pius XII indifferent to the fate of the Jews

February 07, 2014

Rabbi Dalin thinks that Pope Pius should be declared Righteous among the Nations: it would only be common justice if he were

The growing worldwide persecution of Christians shows that Samuel Huntington was right: if he was wrong, where are the protests from moderate Muslim opinion?

January 23, 2014

Predictions that after the end of the Cold War we would see a clash of civilisations between Islam and the West have been borne out by events

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