William Oddie, Author at Catholic Herald

William Oddie

Cardinal O’Brien often colourfully says what needs to be said; but his personal attack on David Cameron and his pronouncements on taxation were just embarrassing

May 02, 2012

Senior Churchmen should stay within their area of technical competence

Will the UK courts and the ECHR really nullify the Government’s intention not to permit gay marriage in church? If so, what will the Soho Masses crowd do then?

April 25, 2012

More to the point, what will our bishops do to prevent them?

The pope moves towards the SSPX and against all those radical feminist nuns. The old ‘reactionary’ back again? No: those liberal clichés are as silly as ever they were

April 23, 2012

Joseph Ratzinger has always said 'no' to heresy: but only so the Church could say 'Yes’ to God

There are, we are told, 800 million people for whom the ECHR is the last recourse against tyrannical governments. But does this argument really hold water?

April 20, 2012

Tyrannical governments, unlike our own, just ignore the ECHR when they don’t like its judgments

Professor Dawkins doesn’t seem to know much about Darwin: either what his masterpiece is actually called, or even what he believed about God (he wasn’t an atheist)

April 18, 2012

There is, Darwin said, an ‘impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe … as the result of blind chance or necessity…. I deserve to be called a Theist’

Who would you rather the tax-avoiding rich gave their money to: charities or the Treasury? Give it up, George: this is one battle you can’t (and shouldn’t) win

April 16, 2012

Everyone knows that charities spend money carefully and beneficially: not so, necessarily, the government

The Irish Association of Catholic Priests should stop using Vatican II to justify its defiance of papal teaching: some of us know what the Council actually said

April 13, 2012

Rome is right, not before time, to “silence” Father Tony Flannery

Abu Hamza is off to face US justice, and not before time. But the case of Babar Ahmad seems different: will he now undergo yet another extradition injustice?

April 11, 2012

He doesn’t even know the charges against him: so much for justice being seen to be done

Mr Cameron is trying to please Christian voters by saying nice things to us: Archbishop Nichols approves. We mustn’t, however, be taken in

April 09, 2012

He will press forward with gay ‘marriage’ whatever we say

Liam Stacey’s drunken racist Tweets, as Fabrice Muamba lay possibly dying, shocked us all: but his inhumane punishment should shock us too

March 30, 2012

It isn’t a judge’s business to reflect public outrage, but to act with judicial balance

Here we go again. The Pope has used a stick in public, so speculation about his retirement has started up. But it’s quite simple: popes don’t retire

March 28, 2012

As Pope John Paul said, there’s no place for a Pope emeritus

Did Archbishop Conti criticise Archbishop Nichols for denying that Christians are being persecuted? Maybe, maybe not: but he certainly disagrees with him

March 26, 2012

Our bishops should make it clearer that they are not trying to disassociate themselves from the Magisterium

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