William Oddie, Author at Catholic Herald

William Oddie

There’s a lot of talk about the Pope’s ‘hundred days’. That makes me nervous: Napoleon’s, after all, did not end well for him

June 28, 2013

The Pope has established himself as a pastor; now, he must assume his role as teacher and defender of the faith in a secular culture

How come that empty papal chair has become so widely interpreted as symbolic, even sinister? Is this part of a curial anti-Francis conspiracy?

June 26, 2013

What exactly is the meaning of that ‘Enigma of the Empty Chair’? Everyone seems agreed that there must be one

The Holy Father says he is too ‘disorganised’ to reform the Roman Curia. But the corruption has to be driven out. What he needs is a Godly hit man

June 20, 2013

That can, surely, only be his new Secretary of State, who should know the Vatican well but not be of it. There is one obvious candidate

I was wrong and uncharitable to suggest that the Pope should not be meeting Archbishop Welby. But about our relationship with Anglicanism I got it right

June 14, 2013

Above all, ARCIC is the institutionalisation of the indifferentism which has so weakened faith in the parishes since the Sixties

On Friday, the Pope will meet Archbishop Welby. So, why do we continue talking to the Anglicans after they have so wilfully made unity impossible?

June 11, 2013

To behave as though women priests and gay bishops make no difference to our relations is to do violence to the truth

The Archbishop of Canterbury made a good speech against the gay marriage Bill: but why did he grovel to the government?

June 05, 2013

The contribution of the Anglican bishops was feeble: what are they there for?

Pope Francis is under attack for saying that outside the Church there is no salvation: it’s a “poke in the eye” says one Presbyterian. Here is why he’s wrong

June 03, 2013

It’s hardly a personal opinion: these people seem to think that Popes just spend their time spouting their own prejudices

Thank God for the Catholic Truth Society, semper fidelis: more a cornucopia than a publishing company

May 31, 2013

English Catholics owe the CTS a debt of gratitude which is rarely expressed as it should be

The secular media is beginning to think that Pope Francis is obsessed by the devil: but the Holy Father simply teaches what Our Lord did

May 28, 2013

Vigilance against the wiles of Satan, who roams the earth, seeking whom he may devour, is fundamental to the faith of the New Testament

The Oxford ‘Asian grooming gang’ were not in fact all Asian. But they were all Muslim: is this a problem we are afraid to face?

May 15, 2013

It is in fact a dilemma for their religious community and not for the “Asian” community – if such a thing exists

Why did Cameron lose so many votes to Ukip last week? One important reason is the threat he continues to pose to the institution of marriage

May 08, 2013

If his ‘gay marriage’ bill is in the Queen’s speech, he will lose the next election

Soon the media will discover that, like all popes, this one is no liberal. Then they will turn against him; and normality will return

May 01, 2013

The Holy Father has his own idiosyncratic way of talking about the faith and of connecting with the faithful. But he really isn’t about to reinvent the papacy

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