What will Mr Cameron say or do about this gross barbarity? Just carry on supporting Pakistan regardless?
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.
An 11-year-old girl with Down’s syndrome has fallen foul of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. Should we really continue to support this anti-Christian country?
Monday, 20 August 2012
The post-Olympic campaign for daily sport in state schools could lead to the cult of sporting excellence that makes private schools a hell for the unathletic
Friday, 17 August 2012
Two hours of sport a day is probably more than the state can afford: thank heaven for that, I say
Catholics for Romney surely now has lift-off, with the announcement as his vice-presidential candidate of a faithful and pugnaciously pro-life Catholic
Monday, 13 August 2012
Paul Ryan, Romney pointedly announced, is ‘a faithful Catholic’ who ‘believes in the worth and dignity of every human life’
Former Abbot Hugh Gilbert is turning out to be an impressive Bishop of Aberdeen. What a splendid Archbishop of Westminster he would have made…
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
I still believe the speculation that that’s what Rome would have preferred was true
Soon, the racist anti-Semite Marie Stopes will be on our stamps. Already, eponymous abortionists are menacing pro-life prayer. A mad world, or what?
Monday, 6 August 2012
The wealthy Marie Stopes International is legally threatening the use of rosaries in baby pink and blue
In the US, one chicken dish now symbolises either traditional families or rank homophobia: on the left, there’s an Orwellian campaign against marriage
Wednesday, 1 August 2012
In an American election year issues become fascinatingly over-the-top
We should respect minority religious laws, Muslim, Jewish or Hindu: but only if they accept our over-arching tradition of liberty under the law of England
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Sharia law is in some respects incompatible with English law: where they clash, English law should prevail
Our Lady of Quito prophesied that in the 60s there would be spiritual catastrophe in the Church; then, through the faith of the just, a ‘complete restoration’
Thursday, 26 July 2012
But first, there would be a total corruption of morals in society; this would affect the Church, too
The Bishops’ Conference has decided that Day for Life 2012 is all about the Olympic Games. Every year, it’s anything BUT what Pope John Paul intended
Monday, 23 July 2012
Evangelium Vitae was clear: it should principally be about ‘the seriousness of abortion and euthanasia’
Mark Thompson vetoed a statue of George Orwell outside the BBC as a ‘Left-wing’ proposal. Winston Churchill would have disagreed
Orwell was one of those indispensable geniuses who transcended politics, and who Catholics too need as part of their mental furniture