The Social Pathologist

The Diseases of Modern Life as seen through the Secular Confessional

Friday, July 27, 2018

Reflections on the Anniversary of Humanae Vitae

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Almost since the day it was issued, Humanae vitae (HV) has been the signum cui contradicetur which Pope Paul VI anticipated it might...
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Monday, July 23, 2018

And the Agony Continues

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I'm not a big fan of Rod Dreher but his latest articles of on the Cardinal McCarrick sexual abuse allegations make for compelling read...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Catholic Inertia

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Back to our regular programming. Warning: for those of an atheist bent this is a religious post. It's this blog's primary...
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Monday, June 25, 2018

Illustrated Political Spectrum: Slumlord's Reality/Temperament Graphs

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This is a follow up to the last post. Sometimes I find it easier to visualise things using drawings. For a "Man of the Right" ...
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Saturday, June 23, 2018

Beyond Left and Right: A Reply to Carlsbad 1819

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A digression. NTSS over at his blog Carlsbad 1819 has put up a rather good post, The left-right spectrum put in its proper meaning and con...
Sunday, June 17, 2018

Some Thoughts on the Child Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church

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I think one of the most important tasks facing the religious Dissident Right is trying to determine why Christianity has been unable to stop...
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Thursday, May 31, 2018

The Age of the Empozzment

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One of the reasons why I tend to focus on the religious aspect of the Dissident Right is because I believe that the collapse of religion in ...
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Friday, May 18, 2018

Rodney Dangerfield in the role of Aquinas

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The ideal vs the real. On a related note: On finance, the Vatican can still do better .
Monday, May 14, 2018

A Religious Dissident Right

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Rod Dreher--who I don't agree with very much--put up an interesting article which I felt deserved far more comment in this corner of...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2018

Neoplatonism, Thomism and Modernism

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I thought I would just follow up with a few more thoughts on the subject of Neoplatonism in the Church. I can't say that I'm a sch...
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Friday, May 04, 2018

Reps for Jesus

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  The Body was no longer what it was when Plato and Porphyry and the old mystics had left it for dead. It had hung upon a gibbet. It had...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Rules of the Club

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He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth. ( Matthew 12:30) As I've said before, any res...
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Friday, April 13, 2018

Exorcism

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What unites the Left, the "Alt- Right" and Neoconservatism is a contempt of Christianity.  For the Left,  Christianity,...
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Sunday, April 01, 2018

Thoughts

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In case anyone is interested there is an interesting lecture given by George Hawley: Is the Alt-Right Collapsing .  Hawley's academic sp...
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Sunday, December 24, 2017

Merry Christmas

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Firstly, I'd like to wish all my readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. It's been a year of mixed blessings and I must ...
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