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Reflections on a pilgrimage to a Jordan Peterson rally: the good, the bad and the evil

April 23, 2024

Last week I made my first visit, or pilgrimage even, to a Jordan Peterson rally in Oklahoma in the United States. I and my YouTube colleagues from “Catholic Unscripted” had been invited to a behind-the-stage event following his appearance. Although I had once been invited to take part in an academic seminar probing Peterson’s ideas

Where is the outcry from British Churches on ‘nightmarish’ nature of Scotland’s new ‘thought crime’ law?

April 03, 2024

Not so very long ago, there was a simpler time when discussion about JK Rowling in Catholic circles was generally limited to a discussion between diocesan exorcists and fans of the Harry Potter books. Back then, the diocesan exorcists warned Catholic parents against allowing their children to read Harry Potter (or reading the books themselves)

Are the dark gods back: Enraged crowds, psychosis and possession?

March 05, 2024

After watching the videos of mobs of supposedly progressive students at Manchester University, shouting, swearing, threatening, intimidating and attempting to terrify a handful of their contemporaries – who had the temerity to set up a pro-life student society on campus – it’s hard not to ask the question: What on earth possessed them? Sometimes there are moments when idiomatic language

Finally the experts agree that being Catholic is good for your health

November 28, 2023

It turns out that the psychologists have finally come round to the view that “being Catholic is good for you”. As Jordan Peterson very recently observed, Catholicism is “as sane as you can get”. Psychology has frowned on religion ever since Sigmund Freud believed he had made a connection between the practice of religion and

Interview: soon-to-be-Catholic Tammy Peterson on marriage, religion and the power of femininity

November 20, 2023

Tammy Peterson is becoming a Catholic. She will be received into the Church at Easter. Any school rebranding their house system and looking for a contemporary role model to inspire their girls would do well to dump Thunberg into the recycling box of history and open instead “Peterson House”. Why? Because in Tammy we have

Jordan Peterson: the Bible is the foundational document for Western civilisation

March 05, 2018

Although there is a Gnostic element to his thinking, Peterson's work is permeated with biblical references

What is a Catholic to make of Jordan Peterson?

March 02, 2018

We do not need to be more politically incorrect, but more authentically Catholic

Morning Catholic must-reads: 28/02/18

February 28, 2018

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