Tag Archives: William Oddie

D. Shrewsbury, England and the New Evangelization.

Posted on 3 June 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

For your Brick by Brick File.
From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald comes this, with my emphases and comments.
A major centre for Eucharistic Adoration and the Old Mass? It’s the latest episcopal surge forward
Bishop Davies is striking a … Continue reading →

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Wm. Oddie on the “tertium quid”

Posted on 20 May 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

In the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, William Oddie has a piece today following up on the reports surrounding the Instruction on Summ0rum Pontificum, Universae Ecclesiae.
Let’s see some of it with my emphases and comments.
The Pope’s ambition, … Continue reading →

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Beating back the smoke of Satan

Posted on 28 April 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

There are many who think that the beatification of John Paul II has come too quickly.  It is too soon, they say, to have the proper perspective about the nexus of his pontificate and his life of heroic virtue.  I … Continue reading →

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Catholic Herald (UK) – Wm. Oddie opines about Pres. Obama

Posted on 25 February 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From William Oddie of the UK’s best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald comes this strong opinion piece about the President of the United States.   I generally dismiss transatlantic views of any POTUS.  This commentary, however, caught my attention because it … Continue reading →

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Do we need a “Syllabus” on the Council?

Posted on 21 January 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The UK’s best Catholic weekly (which still has its digital subscription special going, a year for a “tenner”!) the Catholic Herald has an article by William Oddie about the proposal made by Bp. Athanasius Schneider about a Syllabus both of … Continue reading →

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The Catholic Herald’s William Oddie about critics of Benedict XVI’s Assisi confab

Posted on 13 January 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

In the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, columnist William Oddie opines about people who are having a nutty over the Pope’s plan for an ecumenical meeting in Assisi… Assisi III.
Before we plunge in, I must say that I … Continue reading →

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