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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]