Veritas et Sapientia

Veritas et Sapientia – The Manly Virtues of Saint Joseph Taught Our Lord

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: On the feast of Saint Joseph, the earthly foster-father of Our Lord, we should remember and honor the man that taught Jesus his vocation and his public manners. Brother André Marie's narrative of this is insightful. - Editor, M.C.] "But genes are not all that goes into a child. Whether we call it education, discipline, or training, the multi-faceted art of child-rearing impresses as much […]

March 19, 2018

The Mike Church Show

Veritas et Sapientia – Good #MAGA Leaders Don’t Start Wars, They Avoid Them

Mandeville, LA - Realistic though they were about human weaknesses, the Framers sought to promote the common good. They looked in particular to the republics of Greece and Rome for models as well as warnings. The Constitution was to protect the better self of the American people against bouts of ignorance, intoxication, or fear. - Claes Ryn. Without [r]epublican virtue—self-discipline, modesty, and devotion to the public things—their constitutional system could […]

March 14, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia – On The Absolute Necessity of Capital Punishment

Mandeville, LA - The abolition of capital punishment, I mean, is one of the products of humanitarianism—that is, of the belief that man’s cleverness will suffice for all purposes, without need for knowledge of the transcendent and the divine. The rejection of capital punishment in any circumstances thus is becoming an attitude which belongs to the intellectual and moral era that is passing. - Russell Kirk Yet humanitarianism is now a […]

March 7, 2018 2

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Veritas et Sapientia – The Inhuman, Soulless Factories Public Schools Have Become

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: On Tuesday, Feb 27th Mike Church Show, I discussed this very subject at some length. Thus I am filled with joy to relay Professor Esolen's exploration of the same subject matter: what I call the Public School Factory System that more resembles a prison than a school. You can listen to that episode here.] "In the wake of the dreadful massacre at the high school […]

March 1, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia-Modern Europe Needs What Ancient Europe Needed: Christendom

Mandeville, LA - All I can say, politely but firmly, is that Hungary deserves better than this. So it’s no wonder that in the country now the mood is not for a change of government, but for a change of opposition. But for a moment let’s take them seriously and make it clear that we are people who think that the last hope for Europe is Christianity. Now the fashionable […]

February 27, 2018 1

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Veritas et Sapientia-When Books Called Fornicators Sinners & Sodomites “Bituminous”

Mandeville, LA - It never occurs to [Fr. Benedict] Merkelbach that we should consult the feelings of usurers as to their usury, liars as to their lies, the irreligious as to their disdain for God, and fornicators as to their fun in bed. After all, most sins are accompanied by passion, and an evil man is not rendered harmless by his doing his evil with a will. Satan may whistle while […]

February 23, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia – The Sinful Pride of Presuming Your Ticket Is Punched In Heaven

Mandeville, LA - "Over the past fifty years, the fear of God, a gift from the Holy Ghost, is fast evaporating. Presumptuous thinking people overestimate their goodness, believing that they are better than they really happen to be. As a practicing psychologist, it is most striking to me how grandiose we have become in assessing the “goodness” of our character. How many reprobates declare, “I am a good person,” despite […]

February 21, 2018 1

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Veritas et Sapientia – Where Are The Valiant Romans ‘Muricah Needs Now?

Mandeville, LA - "As it is a nervous business for prelates to court and be courted by civil power, one might question the wisdom of popes addressing the United Nations or parliaments. “We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” A pope is not merely another head of state, and the whole history […]

February 20, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia – The Good That God Does And The Evil That Men Do

Mandeville, LA - But what about the innocent victims of the sins of others? What about the innocent victims of Achilles’ anger and Paris’ lust? What about the ordinary people of Troy? What about “blameless” Hector and his equally blameless wife and child? Why should they suffer? How are they to blame? Or, to put the whole question in the modern idiom, why do bad things happen to good people? Perhaps […]

February 15, 2018 1