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Veritas et Sapientia-William Shatner Reminds Us Of The Cause of Ash Wednesday

Mandeville, LA - The reminder that Ash Wednesday is about our feeble, human, soon to end existence is written of by all the Church fathers and Doctors as well as many famous Saints. But for the modern world gone wrong, no one makes the point of death, its finality, our lack of control over it and the certainty of Judgement, better than..... wait for it.... William Shatner. Yes, James Tiberius […]

February 13, 2018 9

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Veritas et Sapientia-Time To Stop Sinning And Start Dressing With Dignity

Mandeville, LA - Dressing like a floozy tells the world, ‘Look at me, want me, lust after me. I’m easy and you can have me.’ Displaying intimate parts of the body is a form of advertising for sex – so if you dress to attract sexual attention, you can hardly blame anyone else if that kind of attention comes your way. But dressing modestly tells the world, ‘I respect myself and […]

February 7, 2018 19

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Wisdom Of The Poor Knights Of Solomon’s Temple i.e. Templars

Mandeville, LA - Exactly 900 years ago, in A.D. 1118-19, a small group of men came together in Jerusalem to form a religious community. They were pilgrims. The First Crusade had retaken the city from Muslim rule in 1099. The men, who were all from Europe’s knightly order, had come looking for a life of common prayer and service. They got both, but not in the way they intended. It took […]

February 5, 2018 7

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Veritas et Sapientia-You Should Love ‘Muricah BECAUSE She Is Great, Not Make Her Great By Loving Her

Mandeville, LA - Let us suppose we are confronted with a desperate thing—say Pimlico. If we think what is really best for Pimlico we shall find the thread of thought leads to the throne of the mystic and the arbitary. It is not enough for a man to disapprove of Pimlico: in that case he will merely cut his throat or move to Chelsea. Nor, certainly, is it enough for a […]

January 31, 2018 5

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Veritas et Sapientia-USA Becomes First Ever, Star Spangled, Banana Republic

Mandeville, LA - After a disastrous defeat in Vietnam and the adoption of Reaganomics, the American Empire embarked upon becoming La República Bananera del Norte. On a small scale, the two vanguard nations, Guatemala and Honduras, gave the world the three defining characteristics of a Banana Republic. I. Class Structure: a tiny elite, a small middle class, and a large underclass. The ratio of CEO pay to worker pay rose from 20:1 […]

January 23, 2018 30

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Veritas et Sapientia-Pick A Church, You Can’t Have A Foot In Mammon’s AND Christ’s

Mandeville, LA - "This effort to keep a foot in both churches won’t work, any more than one can be simultaneously Muslim and Buddhist. Even so, the effort to enjoy dual religious citizenship, particularly among politicians and others in the public eye, remains commonplace. It should be understood for what it is: an attempt to serve two very different—indeed, competing—religious masters. In sum, secularist progressivism is less a political movement […]

January 18, 2018 6

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Veritas et Sapientia-To Reform Our Corrupted Cult Stop Trying To Reform It

Mandeville, LA - "In the midst of all this one young man, the son of well to do civil servants, has come to the big city to begin the second half of an education in politics that his family expects will lead to a career in public life. But he has looked around at the dissolute lives of his fellow students and professors and the disintegration of social order in […]

January 17, 2018 11

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Last Jedi As The Millennials Strike Back

Mandeville, LA - [The following is excerpted from First Things and edited for continuity - MC, Ed.] The new Star Wars movies start where, forty years ago, the original began. Despite the triumph at the end of Return of the Jedi, the political situation in the Star Wars universe has reverted to its previous state. Note that in none of the eight movies so far is the intensive and painful […]

January 16, 2018 8

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Destruction of Culture Doesn’t Liberate It Destroys

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: This is an excerpt from Patrick Deneen's Why Liberalism Failed, the Mike Church Show's featured book this month.-MC, Ed.] "The economic catastrophe and near collapse of the world economy in 2008 was, above all, the result of the elimination of a culture that existed to regulate and govern the granting and procuring of mortgages. The destruction of culture thus achieves not liberation but bondage. This […]

January 11, 2018 11