Enda Kenny is predictably making the most of the situation: he shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it
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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.
The tragic death of Savita Halappanavar should not be exploited to sweep away Irish abortion law, under which she could legally have been saved
Thursday, 15 November 2012
Eamon Duffy talks of ‘the Sovietisation of Catholic intellectual life’ and quotes Newman in defence of Tina Beattie: Newman would disagree
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Catholic liberals keep trying to claim Newman as one of themselves, by quoting him out of context: but he was a dedicated scourge of liberalism
Jeremy Hunt orders an inquiry into the Liverpool Care Pathway, and says patients and relatives must be consulted. But will the doctors pay any attention?
Friday, 9 November 2012
There is too much evidence that the LCP is being used by some doctors as euthanasia by the back door, and that they are wilfully failing to consult: the Health Secretary will be ignored
Obama’s re-election is a tragedy, for the US and the world. Now his second term will be overshadowed, as the Benghazigate cover-up unravels
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
The tragedy is not just that Obama has been a bad president; it’s that Romney would have been a good one
The new prefect of the CDF intends to take on the Soho Masses. I hope he does; that would get Archbishop Vincent off a very uncomfortable hook
Thursday, 1 November 2012
This isn’t about the morality of gay relationships: it’s about obedience—to the Magisterium, and to Conscience properly understood
Catholics, a survey says, are split 50-50 in the US election, with faithful Catholics against Obama, “adaptive ones” for him. But how CAN they be?
Thursday, 25 October 2012
The National Catholic Reporter is consistently supportive of the President; but what else do you expect?
Archbishop Longley reminds us of our commitment to ecumenism. But ecumenism today has to be very different from that of the post-Conciliar years
Monday, 22 October 2012
And John Henry Newman, contrary to the supposition of many, was hardly an ecumenist as we understand the word
Academics intending to investigate the social effects of same-sex unions may think twice after the ordeal of Professor Regnerus
Friday, 19 October 2012
The Regnerus affair may have a chilling impact on academic freedom
When Jimmy Savile died, I reproached his obituarists for their cover-up of his faith. Now I have to ask: what was he thinking of during daily Mass?
Monday, 15 October 2012
Was he simply torn between good and evil? Or was it worse: did he do good so that evil might come of it?
A moral theologian defends the ‘surgical’ use of drones to assassinate terrorist leaders: but is their use really intended to minimise civilian deaths?
According to some, drones in Waziristan are causing total social collapse. Who is telling the truth?