The Social Pathologist

Justice without mercy is cruelty, but mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution. St. Thomas Aquinas The clerical sex abuse...

“He did not know how long she had been looking at him, but perhaps for as much as five minutes, and it was possible that his features h...

Apropos my last post, recent events in my home state, Victoria, Australia, illustrate just how important principles are when it comes to det...

August 5, 1954 Dear Bill:  I no longer believe that political solutions are possible for us. I am baffled by the way people still spe...

Every now and then you read something on the internet that is so good that you want to share it with others. This is from a book review of W...

Recently,  Z-man put up a post, Learning from the Past, which I felt deserved some comment. I like Z-man, he's one of the sharpest t...

One of the tactics deliberately used by communist guerillas is to conceal themselves among the local population. This approach has many adva...

I image that the people who frequent this corner of the blogosphere have by now all heard the news that Zippy Catholic was killed in an acc...

It's all there in the 1930's movie, Mr Smith Goes to Washington. The Cathedral has been put to work to destroy him.

I have been in Italy one week, and have had countless rich, stimulating conversations with Italian Catholic friends. Yet I find that I s...

In the previous post commentator Goldeneye said; Doctor, This is off topic, but I want your thoughts on this. You've talked about the...

Over the next few posts I plan to post on religious themes so I thought I'd give a few of my atheist readers a heads up in case they wan...

Atheist warning: Another religious post. One of the things that impressed me most about the U.S. founding fathers is their recognition th...

Atheist warning: This is another religious post. Woe to the pastors, that destroy and tear the sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord. Theref...

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

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...

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