The Social Pathologist

Unfortunately  I've been unwell for the last ten days and haven't been able to post. One of the reasons I put up the posts on modern...

"The priest is the law, prohibition, forbiddance," wrote the Abbe Larichesse of Cantal in an 1865 study of confession. Familiar w...

IN THE MID-1870's 35,387,703 of the 36,000,000 people in France were listed in the official census as Catholics. The rest declared them...

Ed: Sorry, it's a long post but I think its important and Weber says it better than I can. What comes across in Weber's book on...

  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 ...