The Social Pathologist

  The Angelus. Millet, 1857-59     Those who express regret at the passing of the level-headed, vigorous, hard working countryman...

I know I told Bruce Charlton that my next post was going to be on modernisation but I've been struck down with a cold and the brain is a...

I'd like to wish all my readers a Merry Christmas and a prosperous and safe New Year. In keeping with the Protestant theme of recent pos...

How Modernity differs from the pre-Modern is rather difficult to succinctly state but suffice to say that there is a qualitative difference ...

Gentlemen, Everything is tottering! Protestantism gets a lot of grief in reactionary circles especially with regard to its relatio...

Although it comes from the local left wing rag, this comment by the Chief Commissioner of the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse is wo...

As Max Weber made clear, the Protestant Reformation will open up one of these two roads by erasing physically and symbolically the walls se...

It is said that the priestly ordination of lay people in distant communities is necessary, because of the difficulty encountered by m...

  “Monophorism” was Blondel's term for a reigning clerical authoritarianism which on principle refused to recognize that grace can ...

As I have said before, any renewal of Western Society is only going to come about from a renewal of the Christian religion and therefor...

I think that it is a fairly standard trope in neoreactionary circles to lay the blame of modern Liberalism at the feet of Protestantism ...

I wish to apologise to my long suffering readers and to the commentators from my previous post.  Our friends at Google managed to lock me ou...

Service announcement: It's another religious post. In case people are wondering why I'm sticking to this theme at the moment it'...

This error then had many forms; but especially, like nearly every error, it had two forms, a fiercer one which was outside the Church an...

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...