William Oddie, Author at Catholic Herald

William Oddie

‘A Gift from God’: a stone’s throw from Maryvale, the Ordinariate’s Sisters have now moved into their new convent. Who says prayer doesn’t work?

August 28, 2013

This is a great day, not simply for the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary and for the Ordinariate, but for the whole English Church

Do you accept that the ‘third secret’ of Fatima has been revealed? Then according to some, you are ‘Catholic-lite’

August 21, 2013

The future Pope Benedict published a fraudulent text, these people say, to deceive the Faithful. Also, consecrating the whole world didn’t somehow include Russia. Strange, or what?

Test match cricket approaches the profundities otherwise attained only by great literature, even by religion itself. Why does it happen so rarely?

August 16, 2013

Of course it doesn’t quite achieve what only a religious understanding can deliver: all the same, nearly all human life is there

Reforming the Church is a complex, almost an impossible task. Already, criticism of the Pope’s delays is beginning to mount: he needs our prayers

August 15, 2013

There have also been scandals implied about some of those he has appointed: the truth of these has been denied by his spokesman, but the gossip persists

The lie of ‘Hitler’s Pope’ collapses, little by little: now, an important new book shows how Pius XII’s protection of the Jews worked on the ground

August 09, 2013

Two English Bridgettines exemplified how Jews were not merely hidden in religious houses: they were also nurtured and profoundly respected as Jews

Chesterton’s Cause has not yet been officially opened: but this is surely the beginning of the end of many years of prayer for that day to come

August 07, 2013

It was inevitable that sooner or later the devotion of so many to the conviction of Chesterton’s holiness should be recognised

A Tale of Two Speeches: the Queen’s imaginary World War III address; and the ‘Evil Empire’ speech, which showed why it was a futile exercise

August 05, 2013

It was the détente policy dismantled by President Reagan which had placed us in danger: rearmament and confrontation which made us safe

Whistleblowing in England is now honoured. So it should be in the US: Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden are not traitors, but patriotic Americans

August 02, 2013

Both have practised civil disobedience in the national interest: but that is in the highest traditions of their national culture

The Olympic games now bask in our rosy memory bank of British triumphs (and averted disasters); but there was a negative inheritance too

July 31, 2013

Greenwich Park may have been permanently damaged, whatever the appearances that it has been restored to what it was

Even at the time, I supported Mary Whitehouse: now, even on the Left, she has been vindicated. She was right, because she was motivated by her faith

July 19, 2013

She wasn’t afraid of being laughed at by the fashionable intelligentsia. Her passion for decency and her hatred of ‘filth’ were inspired by her love of God

Pope Francis has consecrated Vatican City State to St Michael the Archangel, and asked him to drive out the evil one: the battle against corruption begins

July 10, 2013

The Holy Father sees the reform of the Roman curia as involving a great deal more than any mere inefficiency in its administration

How many Catholic adoption societies have actually closed down; and how many are now quietly handing children over to gay adoptive parents?

July 04, 2013

Which formerly Catholic adoption societies have changed their names, accepted the law, and been quietly accepted by their bishops?

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