Category: Anthony McCarthy
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.
Noelia Castillo Ramos, was last week euthanised in Spain…. she received her death ultimately at the hands of healthcare staff and the State.
What goes by the name of ‘The Right’ in contemporary British life has been in a state of outrage, confected or otherwise.
This essay appeared originally in the online edition of The Catholic Herald
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
Conservatives in UK and US celebrate mass murder.
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.
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.
Ted Cruz, US senator for the State of Texas, recently took time out to remind us of his literalist illiteracy with regard to the Bible, Christianity, theology and morality.
