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Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "The machine didn’t hate Trump because he wrote mean tweets or because he was a right-winger or a populist—they hated him because he’s not part of the machine. He has his own money. But this is all up to you now. I can’t pretend that Pennsylvania actually preferred a severely disabled stroke victim to a Trump-endorsed candidate. I can’t pretend that, while incumbent presidents lose seats in the midterms, Biden is so much more popular […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "It was 7 years ago today, The KingDude taught good men to say, The Press goes in and out of style But we guarantee to raise a smile" Me - Today is the 7th Birthday of The CRUSADE Channel, launched by y/t on 10 Nov, 2015. We've struggled but survived and always kept our eyes on the prize, a truly Free Press operating under the Rule of Christ The King! Please join us for the […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "Understanding this difference between objective and subjective judgment is crucial to our understanding of beauty and indeed reality. As long as we know the difference, we will avoid unnecessary confusion and conflict. It is the difference between “the best” and “my favourite”. If we are arguing that something is “the best”, we need to employ objective reasons for the judgment; if we are merely saying that something is “my favourite”, we are at liberty to […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "We can no longer conserve. So we must build and rebuild and, therefore, take a stand on what is worth building. We must be willing to exercise judgment over what constitutes the good life—over what our telos is—and to work to channel innovation in that direction and restrain it where it is destructive. The modern conservative project failed because it didn’t take into account the revolutionary principle of technology, and its intrinsic connection to the […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "Today, however, the Church is too full of joy to think of any but the elect; they alone take part in the glorious close of human history described in the Epistle. Indeed, they alone are reckoned before God; the reprobate are but the waste of a world where sanctity alone responds to the Creator’s advances, to the ventures of his infinite love. Let our souls be supple to receive the divine stamp, which is to […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "I’m not sure “illiberal Right” quite understands that. They’re prone to what I call the Franco fallacy. By trying to force Catholicism on the Spanish people, Francisco Franco created resentment against the Church and hastened its decline in Spain. As a rule, when the government becomes more religious, public religiosity declines. (The phenomenon is now playing out in Islamic theocracies like Turkey and Iran.) The same thing happens even if people think they want a […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "Consider the practice of agriculture. For millennia, farmers seeking to sustain the soil employed crop rotation and animal husbandry that could produce the nutrients required by crops year over year. This exigency developed virtues of care and attention to the land, self-reliance, adaptive reuse, thrift, and disciplined work. These practices and virtues formed not just individual farmers, but their communities and economies, shaping holidays, religious devotion, legal contracts, banking practices, ideals of education, and more: […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "If you can make people see only names and never things you can instruct them that it is the height of wisdom to ignore the evidence and believe whatever they are told. This is what is done, in fact, by the media managers who manufacture our opinions. They are the architects of a parallel reality. For example, the process of ritual humiliation at work is known as an appraisal. Training usually means stultification, if not […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "It’s not just adult coloring books anymore, but all sorts of stocking stuffers. Toy companies are expanding special lines of products that appeal to kidults. Legos now has more than one hundred kits explicitly designed for grown-downs. Stuffed animals, dolls, and action figures are all the rage among those 18 and up. McDonald’s recently jumped on the bandwagon by offering Happy Meals for kidults, complete with a free toy inside." - John Horvat, Why Are […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "It is here that Catholics have a special responsibility. They are not involved in the immediate issues of the conflict in the same way as are the political parties, for they belong to a supranational spiritual society, which is more organically united than any political body which possesses an autonomous body of principles and doctrines on which to base their judgements. Moreover, they have a historical mission to maintain and strengthen the unity of Western […]