The Social Pathologist

I think Luther must have chuckled as General Clarke's U.S. Army surged up the Italian peninsula and liberated Rome in June of 1944.  It ...

 Merry Christmas to my long suffering readers. Hopefully I'll be less slack and put up a few more posts next year. Best wishes to all.

One of the recurring tropes seen in conservative blogs is the opposition of modernity to religion. The implication of this line of thought i...

Vladimir Solovyov is one of Putin's chief propagandists . Back in 2008 he sang a different and more sensible tune.   As many Russian a...

The truth is this war has its roots much further back than Obama. If you want to point to an incident as a starting place, it would be Amer...

Even though not much has been posted recently on the blog it's not dead yet. I won't be posting for the next two months due to perso...

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...