Author: Anthony McCarthy

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27 Apr, 2026

Pope Leo and a Particular Issue

It is a peculiar feature of our culture that those outside the Catholic Church often appear acutely aware of the Church’s negative prescriptions on sexuality, if not the positive message they serve. Yet such matters are rarely mentioned in sermons at mass, to which the Church hopes eventually to welcome those currently outside it.

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28 Jan, 2026

View from England: High-Minded Starmer

Keir Starmer, is considering sending British troops to Greenland.  His transport secretary, Heidi Alexander, quickly reassured the public that such considerations were nothing to do with US military threats but were rather “business as usual” and related to concerns over the “High North” and the building of an “effective deterrent” against “Putin

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5 Aug, 2025

Value and Feeling

The animals’ responses to efforts of zoo-goers to attract their attention have become ‘meaningless’ due to the empty nature of the stimuli. Berger wrote his reflections in the 1970s long before the Information Age brought closer a state of affairs among humans resembling that of animals in the zoo.

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Anthony McCarthy / Free Content

19 Jul, 2025

The Master Builder

The London theatre-goer has to get used to seeing what he reveres systematically demeaned. Such a thought occurred to me as I watched ‘My Master Builder’, a play very loosely based on Ibsen’s striking late work The Master Builder.