The Social Pathologist

I'm getting a bit of heat from the idiot Right in criticism of their view of Russia the new defender of Christianity. So I wonder how th...

I got a fair amount of grief from the pro-Russian crowd in my last post about the Russian Military Cathedral which I felt tried to reconcile...

I meant to write about this last night but got stuck with other things. Russia has built itself a new cathedral for its armed forces, and I...

 Some interesting religious art from the newly consecrated Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces. The one on the left is the original versi...

The Pseudo Right support of Putin only results in the furthering of the causes of the Left. The facts were quite clear. Among Putin's fo...

Commentator Sean took offence to my comment about the eternal Russia and I felt trying to justify myself would really be counterproductive. ...

Sometimes even though world events are complicated and require nuance, the moral response to them is not hard. One of the most depressing th...

Blogging has been scarce since I've been a bit burned out but I thought I should make an effort for Christmas. Protestantism gets a bad ...

One of the unexpected consequences of revisiting the life of Charles de Gaulle was a deeper appreciation of man who I frequently ran into wh...

“I could be the Buddha of Europe: though admittedly an antipode to the Indian Buddha” ( Friedrich Nietzsche ) I've got to admit that I...

As the debacle of Afghanistan flashes across our TV screens it's important to reflect why a bunch of goat herders were able to successfu...

One of the things that struck me in reading about de Gaulle's life is how Catholic support for the Free French could be predicted by the...

“As the French and as Christians we oppose Hitler and fight the fight” Andre Malraux, de Gaulle's polymath Minister of Cultural affairs...

Buddhism is centripetal, but Christianity is centrifugal   (GK Chesterton)   Yet another interesting figure that pops up in relation to the...

One of the intellectual digressions that occupied me after reading Jackson's book on De Gaulle was the character of Jean Monnet .  I hav...