It all makes sense to me: but I’m a simple soul
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.
Do you agree with Umberto Eco, that Apple is Catholic and PC Protestant? It looks as though Pope Benedict might…
Friday, 26 August 2011
The 1994 statement permitting girl servers was a mistaken tactical retreat which led to a fall in priestly vocations. It’s time to withdraw it
Thursday, 25 August 2011
Undoing the damage will take time: the sooner the Church starts to clear up the mess, the better
After the storm ceased, the Pope thanked the two million for their ‘joy and resistance’. Then they knelt in the mud before the Blessed Sacrament. That’s the meaning of the Catholic faith
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Those two million young Catholics are just so unfashionable. Long may it remain so
Theologians can be a ‘curse and affliction upon the church’: so says the US bishops’ senior doctrinal adviser. I wish ours had one like that
Friday, 19 August 2011
But the fact that in the US they do shows that the Benedictine counter-revolution is on course
Why do our Bishops pull out candidates for the priesthood from seminaries which teach the Extraordinary Form? Why are they so intent on defying the Pope?
Thursday, 18 August 2011
The new vision of liturgical pluralism should now be an integral part of priestly formation
Now we have proof that abolishing parental rights and encouraging single-parent families was disastrous: the disaster has happened
Monday, 15 August 2011
What was done by design can be undone the same way. But will there be enough political determination to do it?
Has multiculturalism helped to tear our society apart? And was Tariq Jahan’s noble behaviour an implicit rejection of it, an appeal to common values?
Friday, 12 August 2011
The inquest continues; this is an important question we need to resolve
Why didn’t the looters’ parents know where they were? Why didn’t they teach them about right and wrong? Answer: society has undermined the family
Thursday, 11 August 2011
We need to back the authority of parents, police, teachers. ‘Children’s rights’ has led to disaster
Is the National Catholic Reporter (aka Fishwrap) out to get Fr Z? If so, they would be wise to think again
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Persecuting orthodox bishops is one thing: but this target bites back
Does the Government really intend to ‘tighten the rules’ on abortion? What governments say can’t always be trusted: Catholic bishops should be wary
Nadine Dorries wants to stop taxpayers’ money going to ‘counselling’ by abortionists: but will the Department of Health actually back her?