This is a good piece on two important things: the crisis in Ireland, and the obligation to do justice to a complicated subject. While I don’t agree with everything Oddie says, it is a useful corrective to the stereotypes and journalese surrounding the debate, and American-European issues generally.

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2011/08/04/sorry-mr-weigel-the-irish-church-has-problems-but-to-call-ireland-the-the-epicentre-of-european-anti-catholicism-is-simply-wrong/