Veritas et Sapientia

Mandeville, LA - James Madison wrote an explanation of the House of Representin' in Federalist 52. Madison's conclusion should be required reading for the Hula Hoopsters pining for more "resolutions" against the President of The United States! The conclusion resulting from these examples will be not a little strengthened by recollecting three circumstances. The first is, that the federal legislature will possess a part only of that supreme legislative authority […]

"You may alter the place to which you are going; but you cannot alter the place from which you have come." Posted by: Mike Church When I had written this down, I felt once again the presence of something else in the discussion:  as a man hears a church bell above the sound of the street.  Something seemed to be saying, "My ideal at least is fixed; for it was […]

The REAL Meaning of "Independence" Day! Letters of Delegates to Congress: Volume 4 May 16, 1776 - August 15, 1776 John Adams to Abigail Adams Philadelphia July 3d. 1776 Had a Declaration of Independency been made seven Months ago, it would have been attended with many great and glorious Effects.  We might before this Hour, have formed Alliances with foreign States. We should have mastered Quebec and been in Possession […]

Why Secession Was Necessary, as told by John Adams Mandeville, LA - [Editor's Note - This letter was written to Abigail Adams while John Adams was ensconced with the 2nd Continental Congress in Philadelphia. I suggest a reading of all of Adams's correspondence to Abigail of 1776 is a healthy exercise in patriotism as Adams words and intentions are [r]epublican in nature. - Ed. MC] Philadelphia PA - G B […]

The Holy Ghost Is Calling, Are We Listening? From Dom Prosper Gueranger's Liturgical Life for this day of Wednesday In Whitsun Week. "O divine Spirit of Fortitude! take full possession of our souls, and keep us from the effeminacies of the age we live in. Never was there such lack of energy as now, never was the worldly spirit more rife, never was sensuality more unbridled, never were pride and […]

The Beautiful Necessity of Fertility And Babies Our daughter has a friend whose dream was to travel to Japan and work there for the rest of her life teaching the Japanese, English. I told her she would not have a class to teach in 20 years because Japan is going to go extinct as a direct result of their diabolical obsession with wealth creation and wealth consumption; the latter drives […]

Mandeville, LA - The sun of the fortieth day has risen in all his splendour. The earth which shook with gladness at the birth of our Emmanuel (Psalms xcv. xcvi. xcvii.)now thrills with a strange emotion. The divine series of the mysteries of the Man-God is about to close. Heaven has caught up the joy of earth. The Angelic Choirs are preparing to receive their promised King, and their Princes […]

Why Distributism Isn't "Socialism" Mandeville, LA - "And this brings us to another reason why some people have accused Chesterton of socialism. They argue that the political creed of distributism, which Chesterton advocated, would involve the coercive redistribution of wealth, something which they rightly perceive to be socialist. The problem is that they do not understand distributism, either what it is or what it isn’t." Listen to Mike Church and […]