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Veritas et Sapientia – Time To End “Ending The Era of Big Government”

Mandeville, LA - About 10 years ago I wrote an article for Austrian readers explaining that American politicians who say they’ll “get government off our backs” have no intention of keeping that promise. Their real plan is to provide favors for their donors at taxpayers’ expense and with a little luck maybe create a new agency to “help the people.” Moreover, those who vote for politicians inveighing against “big government” usually […]

December 11, 2017 10

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Veritas et Sapientia – Saint John Damascene’s Story of Mary’s Immaculate Conception

Mandeville, LA - "Joachim and Anne were the parents of Mary. Joachim kept as strict a watch over his thoughts as a shepherd over his flock, having them entirely under his control. For the Lord God led him as a sheep, and he wanted for none of the best things. When I say best, let no one think I mean what is commonly acceptable to the multitude, that upon which […]

December 8, 2017 11

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Veritas et Sapientia – #MeToo’ers Could Use The Manly Virtues of Saint Terese

Mandeville, LA - "If I’m not loved, that’s just too bad! I tell the whole truth, and if anyone doesn’t wish to know the truth, let her not come looking for me. We should never allow kindness to degenerate into weakness. When we have scolded someone with just reason, we must leave the matter there, without allowing ourselves to be touched to the point of tormenting ourselves for having caused […]

December 7, 2017 14

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Veritas et Sapientia – What Did Jesus Do To “Bible Believing” Folks Of His Time? Surprise, Surprise…!

Mandeville, LA - From the Gospels it appears that there were a lot of bigwigs Jesus didn’t like. He spoke harshly about scribes and Pharisees. And he had problems with the religious authorities, who condemned him to death, and rich people, whom he advised to divest themselves of their wealth. (On one memorable occasion, he drove some of them out of the Temple with a whip.) Their basic problem, he thought, […]

December 6, 2017 7

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Veritas et Sapientia – What’s Keeping You From Pursuing The Name “Saint (Insert Your Name Here)”!?

Mandeville, LA - Let’s look at it another way: Has there ever been a time when the Church, from pope to parish priest to parishioner in the pew, was perfect? But there have always been saints. There have always been saints because there have always been those few individuals who didn’t, in this sense, fret about what anyone else was doing or not doing, and instead did what they were supposed […]

December 5, 2017 8

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Veritas et Sapientia – Beware The Fake Charms Of Science And Wisdom

Mandeville, LA - "Surely, there is at this day a confederacy of evil, marshalling its hosts from all parts of the world, organizing itself, taking its measures, enclosing the Church of Christ as in a net, and preparing the way for a general Apostasy from it. Whether this very Apostasy is to give birth to Antichrist, or whether he is still to be delayed, as he has already been delayed […]

November 28, 2017 8

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Veritas et Sapientia-This Thanksgiving, Give Thanks For Conserving The Beautiful

Mandeville, LA - Conservatism in a postmodern moment must therefore be different than the conservatism that motivated Burke or Taft or Disraeli or Reagan. The school of conservatism that might be most fitted for this moment, is paradoxically, the one that is the one least inclined to modernity. This would be a form of conservatism known as traditionalist, espoused most prominently by Russell Kirk. James Matthew Wilson has grasped the Burkean […]

November 22, 2017 12

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Veritas et Sapientia – Dragons And Tanks-Identical Weapons of Mass Destruction

Mandeville, LA - The bronze dragons in the assault move ponderously and open breaches in the city walls. Fiery versions are thwarted by the smooth, steep incline of Gondolin’s hill. But a third variety, the iron dragons, carry Orcs within and move on ‘iron so cunningly linked that they might flow ... around and above all obstacles before them’; they break down the city gates ‘by reason of the exceeding heaviness […]

November 20, 2017 8

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Sacred Beauty of Men In Black Dresses

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: In my talk "How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Save The Free World" I quoted G.K. Chesterton our Veritas et Sapientia muse on society being run by men in dresses, listen to my talk here, the Chesterton Quote appears inline.- Ed., M.C.] Libraries have been written on modernity’s seepage into the Catholic Church, none better than St. Pius X’s Pascendi Gregis. But let us […]

November 16, 2017 7