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Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "The question “What is liberalism?” is an essential question, and therefore an untimely one. In the present moment, the question of the “value” of liberalism—that is, modern political philosophy founded on “natural rights” and some version of the “social contract” theory—has emerged with an urgency it may never have had before. While preceding generations have simply taken liberalism for granted as the given context within which we make practical judgments about many other things, the […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "What is the mission of Christian politics? To make all men brothers, all women sisters; to make fathers and mothers of all those with more power than others; to make children of all those with less; to make cousins of all allies and strangers; to take the seed of charity so obviously present between mother and daughter, husband and wife, and make of it the very model and norm of the social order as a […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "Marriage leaps for virtue like a man leaping for a moving train. It takes two people, with their sin, vice, and striving for perfection and binds them together, saying, “You have, up to this point, sinned, and the world has gone on unperturbed; lied, and no one has been reduced to tears; amassed a thousand occasions of wrath, pride, and petty selfishness—and no one suffered for it. Now you will marry. Now all your hardness […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "Juanito, dearest Juan Diego. Juanito, my dearest son, where are you going? Know and understand well, you my most humble son, that I am the ever-virgin Holy Mary, Mother of the True God for whom we live, of the Creator of all things, Lord of heaven and the earth. I wish that a temple be erected here quickly, so I may therein exhibit and give all my love, compassion, help, and protection, because I am […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "Innocent’s world was not flat, timeless, and univocal. Christendom was dynamic, hierarchical, temporal, and analogical. It moved, governed by a master narrative of fall and redemption, sin and grace, law and freedom, the external and the internal, the temporal and the spiritual. Its meta-narrative was that of salvation history, the movement from paradise, through the stages of the Old Testament, into the New Testament, and on to the eschaton. History was not played out on […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "Innocent’s world was not flat, timeless, and univocal. Christendom was dynamic, hierarchical, temporal, and analogical. It moved, governed by a master narrative of fall and redemption, sin and grace, law and freedom, the external and the internal, the temporal and the spiritual. Its meta-narrative was that of salvation history, the movement from paradise, through the stages of the Old Testament, into the New Testament, and on to the eschaton. History was not played out on […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "Innocent’s world was not flat, timeless, and univocal. Christendom was dynamic, hierarchical, temporal, and analogical. It moved, governed by a master narrative of fall and redemption, sin and grace, law and freedom, the external and the internal, the temporal and the spiritual. Its meta-narrative was that of salvation history, the movement from paradise, through the stages of the Old Testament, into the New Testament, and on to the eschaton. History was not played out on […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "In retrospect, what to social and religious conservatives looked like a desperate fearmongering campaign by Democrats over the Dobbs decision looked like an existential threat to single women who now take abortion to be a fundamental aspect of their lives. And these women represent a substantial and growing part of the electorate, even in otherwise “Red” states. In effect, for these single women, the modern administrative state has taken the place that husbands traditionally occupied […]