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...Read More

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...Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “The Feast of the Blessed Virgin’s Immaculate Conception is the most solemn of all those which the Church celebrates during the holy time of Advent; and if the first part of the Cycle had to offer us the commemoration of some one of the Mysteries of Mary, there was none...Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “The Feast of the Blessed Virgin’s Immaculate Conception is the most solemn of all those which the Church celebrates during the holy time of Advent; and if the first part of the Cycle had to offer us the commemoration of some one of the Mysteries of Mary, there was none...Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “How did a fourth-century, heretic-slapping bishop from Southern Turkey wind up being a fat, Coca-Cola-swigging American elf?  The popular version of the narrative is that the Dutch brought St. Nicholas Day customs to the new world. However historians disagree and suggest that it was German immigrants in Pennsylvania who kept...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “We often hear it said that “culture is downstream of politics.” Politics is here taken for the unitary state. Even so, the catchy phrase is not mistaken in and of itself. The more unjust an order becomes the more it is true that coercive state action usurps moral authority and...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Today’s Pile of Prep: most of the stories and research used to put together the Mike Church Show on the Veritas Radio Network’s CRUSADE Channel. 2017 is here and WELCOME to the All-New, Mike Church Show on the CRUSADE Channel, listen LIVE for Free (don’t cost nuthin’). Sapientia et Veritas – “But why a focus...Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “We often hear it said that “culture is downstream of politics.” Politics is here taken for the unitary state. Even so, the catchy phrase is not mistaken in and of itself. The more unjust an order becomes the more it is true that coercive state action usurps moral authority and...Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “Subsidiarity demands humility and tolerance and allows for profound diversity. It allows for a real and recognizable freedom. It allows for both the pursuit of the common good and for the virtue of minding your own business. Subsidiarity as here described is not a policy recommendation. It is an anthropology....Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “Subsidiarity demands humility and tolerance and allows for profound diversity. It allows for a real and recognizable freedom. It allows for both the pursuit of the common good and for the virtue of minding your own business. Subsidiarity as here described is not a policy recommendation. It is an anthropology....Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “We were all, at that moment, a de facto Party of Moms. Furious mothers have never before been a political force, but by God, they are now. If you are a mom, or stepmom, vote like a mom or stepmom on Tuesday. Who was most hurt by forced mRNA injections? ...Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “A living tradition teaches its participants what it means to be good (a good farmer, a good policeman, a good violinist), aligning their own desires with what sustains the tradition. These virtues aren’t merely moral ideas: They are materially and socially rewarded, and their opposing vices are punished. As time...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “The expanding Church saw some good aspects in these pagan customs: salutary reflection on death, wariness of dark powers, and the quixotic, distinctively human defiance of holding a feast just as the darkness set in. For these reasons, the Church took Samhain and ‘baptised’ it. By the 9th century, the...Read More

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...Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “The Hobbesian ambition of modern politics, to erect an artificial God imbued with quasi-divine attributes, has been realized on the plane not of political but of technological order and will almost certainly become more total still as biometrics fuses biotechnology and information technology together with the “internet of things”—tracking, predicting,...Read More

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...Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “After two years of trolling the twitterverse in the name of integralism, Sohrab Ahmari announced on Twitter that he and his postliberal friends were men of aIn a recent essay for Compact, Jon Askonas argues convincingly that the conservative project failed because “it didn’t take into account the revolutionary principle...Read More

Mandeville, LA – [Editor’s note: This was originally published on Oct 3, 2018. The following is taken from the famous Virginia Report of 1800-1801 that provided a summery of Virginia’s 1798 attempt at a “nullification” of the Alien & Sedition Acts. For further history of this VITAL federal principle and the controversy surrounding it’s now,...Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “After two years of trolling the twitterverse in the name of integralism, Sohrab Ahmari announced on Twitter that he and his postliberal friends were men of action and unilaterally declared an end to the debate over integralism on grounds that it all had become tedious and seemed so very 2017....Read 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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “Now it’s painfully clear the imperial velvet gloves are off when it comes to the vassals. EU independence: verboten. Cooperation with China: verboten. Independent trade connectivity with Asia: verboten. The only place for the EU is to be economically subjugated to the US: a tawdry remix of 1945-1955. With a...Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “For those who wish to resist the power of evil, the Denethor option is never an option. Suicide is the final defeat. It is the triumph of evil, the victory of death over life. Instead, we need to take the Frodo option. We need to bear the burden of evil...Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “For those who wish to resist the power of evil, the Denethor option is never an option. Suicide is the final defeat. It is the triumph of evil, the victory of death over life. Instead, we need to take the Frodo option. We need to bear the burden of evil...Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “Action, the only activity that goes on directly between men without the intermediary of things or matter, corresponds to the human condition of plurality, to the fact that men, not Man, live on the earth and inhabit the world. While all aspects of the human condition are somehow related to...Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “The secular world has no community. Let us not pretend that online communication via the hunting for likes and follows amounts to community any more than the guarded conversations that take place around the office water-cooler do. Communication in isolation is not community. It is still the case that the...Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “The secular world has no community. Let us not pretend that online communication via the hunting for likes and follows amounts to community any more than the guarded conversations that take place around the office water-cooler do. Communication in isolation is not community. It is still the case that the...Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “On trade, we can easily port the strategy we have employed on energy production to almost every single other core manufactured good. We are not some tiny, inland plot of land consigned to the whims of greater powers. We are a transcontinental empire with massive oceans on either side of...Read More

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae “People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end.” – G.K. Chesterton Listen To Yesterday’s Mike Church...Read More