Anthony McCarthy, Author at Catholic Herald

Anthony McCarthy

The problems with Jacques Maritain’s political philosophy

August 09, 2023

Jacques Maritain, the most famous Thomist philosopher of his age, contributed to the drafting of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (1948). Three years later, the definitive expression of his political philosophy Man and the State was published. In that book Maritain recalls that people with very opposed ideologies had agreed a draft list of rights,

‘Oppenheimer’ reminds us of some crucial moral absolutes

July 24, 2023

On August 6 1945, President Truman, when told that the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima had been even more “conspicuous” than the test bomb in New Mexico, announced to Captain Frank Graham, “This is the greatest thing in history”. In June of that year Henry Stimson, US Secretary of State for War and a key adviser

The media silence over a study which found many abortions are coerced and unwanted

July 14, 2023

Three years ago, newspapers in the US and UK were full of headlines such as “Most women do not regret their abortions, study finds” (Guardian Jan 13 2020) and “The majority of women feel relief, not regret, after an abortion, study says” (CNN Jan 15 2020). The lead author of the research cited, based on

Exclusive interview: Stella Assange on her husband, faith and meeting Pope Francis

July 07, 2023

On the 30 June, Stella Assange and her two children were granted a private audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Mrs Assange has reported that the Pope is well aware of the urgency of the situation her husband Julian is in, as he awaits his appeal against extradition from England to the United States to face

What happened to the Ireland of my youth?

June 01, 2018

In 1983, Ireland seemed to know that abortion meant destroying Irish babies.

The sexual revolution’s strange turn

September 01, 2016

In New Mexico, a woman and her son are fighting in the courts for their “right” to a sexual relationship. Monica Mares and her son were separated when she gave him up for adoption, but fell in love when they were reunited. Monica has said she is willing to go to prison and, indeed, give

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