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Veritas et Sapientia-Honoring The Democracy Of The Dead

Mandeville, LA - "But there is one thing that I have never from my youth up been able to understand. I have never been able to understand where people got the idea that democracy was in some way opposed to tradition. It is obvious that tradition is only democracy extended through time. It is trusting to a consensus of common human voices rather than to some isolated or arbitrary record. […]

August 7, 2017 1

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Veriats et Sapientia-No Malarkey Here-Belloc Was Right About Islam Crushing Secularism

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: Maureen Malarkey feted Hillaire Belloc's master-work on The Great Heresies, 80 years on, by essaying that Belloc was right and unless we turn back to The Faith, Islam will crush a secular Europe. - Ed., M.C.] Belloc understood what modernity blithely ignores: cultures spring from religions. Religion is a vital sustaining force. Its disintegration entails the historic decay of the culture that carries it. Belloc […]

July 25, 2017

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Necessity of Stating The Obvious Regardless Of Who It Angers

Mandeville, LA - "The task of any Old Testament prophet could well be summed up by the phrase “stating the obvious.” The kings and people of Israel had been given the Law of Moses and knew full well what their obligations were, yet, as we all do, they routinely fell short of them, and even worked against them. The prophets were called upon by God to state the obvious to […]

July 24, 2017

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Boredom Of The Average ‘Murican’s Material Success

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: as the City Journal's Jane Hymowitz and others try to prepare us for the coming age of the robot and the eclipse of Man, it is worth reflecting how we got into the position where humanity itself, sans machines, now seems to be impossible. Wendell Berry provided a cynical view of the conditions that created the "impossibility of machine-less man". - Ed. M.C.] "The disease […]

July 20, 2017

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Veritas et Sapientia-Human Society Cannot Become Robotic Society

Mandeville, LA - "Human society is not a machine, and it must not be made such, even in the economic field.... Access to employment [shall not be] made to depend on registration in certain parties or in organization which deal with the distribution of employment.... It is necessary that humanity turn its gaze toward the action of God ... to aid and redeem mankind from all its ills." Pope Pius […]

July 19, 2017

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Veritas et Sapientia-Make Religion As a Part of Economics Great Again

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note. The following appears in Joseph Pearce's Small is Still Beautiful book as well as Mr. Tawney's opus Religion and The Rise of Capitalism. - M.C.] "The secularization of political thought, which was to be the work of the next two centuries, had profound reactions on social speculation, and by the Restoration the whole perspective, at least in England, has been revolutionized. Religion has been converted […]

July 11, 2017

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Veritas et Sapientia-Sometimes You Just Have To Let Heretics Be Heretics

Mandeville, LA - This Catholic Church, strongly and widely spread throughout the world, makes use of all who err, to correct them if they are willing to be aroused, and to assist its own progress. It makes use of the nations as material for its operations, of heretics to try its own doctrine, of schismatics to prove its stability, of the Jews as a foil to its own beauty. Some it […]

June 28, 2017 1

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Danger Posed To Us By Muricah’s Neurotic Tycoons

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: On Monday, 19 June's Mike Church Show I covered Jeff Bezo's purchase of Whole Foods and the danger of concentrating massive wealth in the hands of so few, poses to the rest of the peasantry. - Mike Church, Ed.] Most important in this context is the fact that the web of human relations is growing closer as a result of the steady increase in the […]

June 19, 2017

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Wise Know The U.S. Federal Union Will Collapse

Mandeville, LA - "Referencing Harold Berman’s magisterial Law and Revolution (1983), Dr. [Gary] North argues that the greatest threat to liberty has been the development and expansion of administrative law. This has overwhelmed the whole Western legal tradition, which is based on a common law accessible to the people, and substituted a positivist law defined by elites as fashions change. The squeeze on administrative-law institutions from demands by the elderly, […]

June 14, 2017