The Social Pathologist

Atheist warning: this is a religious post. I'm focusing on religion at the moment since I feel that the main driver of Western decline...

One of the problems that unfortunately besets a great writer is that the quality of their writing frequently obscures the quality of their t...

Every now and then I take a look at Commonweal magazine . As far as religious commentary goes it's a bit left-of-centre so I don't n...

Sorry lads, another religious post. Clericalism is topical currently because of its purported relationship with the sexual abuse crisis aff...

In ancient Rome it was the role of the auguries to determine the will of the Gods through the omens observed. The Romans, unlike our mod...

Houellebecq is back at it, this time at First Things, talking about religion, particularly Catholicism. I thought this was very good: An...

As I've said before, before the restoration of the West will only occur once its  religious underpinnings are re-instituted. Most b...

Sorry atheists, another religious post. This is St Paul thundering at the early Christians telling them to get their act together. ...

Atheist warning, this is a religious post. One of the things that has been occupying my mind for quite a while now is the process of  ...

As mentioned previously on this blog, there is going to be no restoration of the West until a re-evangelisation of the people occurs.  For a...

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...