Mitchell as Development Secretary was widely admired as a genuine idealist: our police, too, are respected for their dedication and courage: but what about Hillsborough?
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.
We can’t understand the affair of the ill-tempered chief whip, Andrew Mitchell, or that leaked Downing Street police log, without the doctrine of original sin
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
The evidence is coming in. As the CDF predicted, allowing children to be adopted by ‘parents’ in gay unions is not in their best interests
![The CDF has said: 'The absence of sexual complementarity in [same-sex] unions creates obstacles in the normal development of children'](http://d2jkk5z9de9jwi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/children_thisone-125x94.jpg)
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
A peer-reviewed study in a respectable journal has been conducted by a US academic who was accused by gay activists of misconduct, then vindicated
The number of ‘do not resuscitate’ (DNR) notices being imposed without consultation is now a national scandal. What will the BMA do about it?
Friday, 14 September 2012
It’s time for a few doctors to be prosecuted or struck off
We now know that Nick Clegg thinks (whatever he publicly says) that those opposed to ‘gay marriage’ are bigots. That’s why their rights will be removed
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
The new law will have far-reaching consequences for schools, hospitals, foster carers and public buildings – and that’s just the start
Dr Rowan Williams says that ‘aggressive secularism’ has nothing to do with persecution; Lord Carey and Bishop Nazir-Ali disagree. Who’s right?
Monday, 10 September 2012
Dr Williams speaks from the perspective of the high table and senior common room: but Dr Nazir-Ali has actually been persecuted
Cameron said he would legislate to protect religious rights at work: so why did his lawyers in Strasbourg this week deny the existence of these rights?
Friday, 7 September 2012
This is one promise Cameron has to be held to
As the Church prepares for the 50th anniversary of Vatican II, I ask: what did Pope John hope for?; also, ‘what unites Hans Küng and Daphne McLeod’?
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
The answer makes gloomy reading
They sneered at Bishop Gilbert’s suggestion that gay marriage would lead to unions between one man and two women. Well, now it’s happened
Friday, 31 August 2012
In Brazil, the unthinkable has come to pass. Why not?
A Muslim group forbids tomatoes ‘because they are Christian’. Will dialogue with Muslims ever be possible? Perhaps: but it won’t be easy
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
There are sane and moderate Muslims: but will they ever predominate?
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?
Was he simply torn between good and evil? Or was it worse: did he do good so that evil might come of it?