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Veritas et Sapientia: Will ‘Muricah Choose Democracy or Justice?

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: The following is excerpted from a 2010 essay by Dr. Hauerwas titled Just How Realistic Is 'Just War'? Hauerwas's point is that a Just War cannot be expected in a world of democratic societies, the U.S. is one of them. Taken as a point to begin thinking through the problem of global, military injustice, Hauerwas leads us right back to our CRUSADE Channel discussion on […]

April 11, 2017 6

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Veritas et Sapientia-The “Institute” Of Marriage Required An “Institutor”

"The main reason for the rise of Protestantism in the sixteenth century was in one monosyllabic word – sex." Mandeville, LA - "There are two names by which the Church refers to this sacrament – either marriage or matrimony. Most popularly when we refer to this sacrament it is matrimony, although marriage is an appropriate name. I think the best place to begin an immense subject, is to ask ourselves, […]

April 4, 2017 21

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Search For Humility Is The Search For Eternity

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: Elon Musk is making headlines these days, luring people into a deceitful belief that eternal life can be made, manufactured by Man and his machines, this is the most egregious expression of Pride possible. Today's veritas et Sapientia combines the skill of Joseph Pearce, the wisdom of Chesterton and the classic beauty of Humility of Heart; I pray for Musk's conversion before its too late for […]

March 28, 2017 2

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Veritas et Sapientia-Man’s “Power Over Nature” Can Be Weaponized

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: This passage is excerpted from C.S. Lewis's book "The Abolition of Man" available in full text form, for free here.] "In what sense is Man the possessor of increasing power over Nature? Let us consider three typical examples: the aeroplane, the wireless, and the contraceptive. In a civilized community, in peace-time, anyone who can pay for them may use these things. But it cannot strictly […]

March 21, 2017 7

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Veritas et Sapientia-What Do Conservatives Want?

Mandeville, LA - "[A] final observation. I am a historian of American conservatism, and I can happily report that sophisticated discourse is thriving on the American Right—in journals like Modern Age, the Intercollegiate Review, the New Criterion, the University Bookman, the Claremont Review of Books, and Humanitas, to name a few. But it also appears to me that conservatives spend much of their time (in current parlance) “cocooning” with one […]

March 20, 2017 18

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Veritas et Sapientia-Reverse The Great Faith Robbery And Restore The Roman Rite

Mandeville, LA - [The following is excerpted from First Things and essayist Martin Mosebach and recalls Father Fahey's exhortation from the late 19th century that "there is nothing more beautiful this side of heaven" than the Roman Rite. - Ed., MC] "The now decades-old movement for the restoration of the Roman Rite has been to a considerable extent a lay movement. The position of priests who support the Roman Rite […]

March 15, 2017 6

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Veritas et Sapientia-When Moloch’s Mob Comes For You

"The people in the audience who wanted to hear me speak were completely cowed. That cannot be allowed to stand." - Charles Murray Mandeville, LA - [Editor's Note: This is Dr. Charles Murray's statement about the tragic, violent conclusion to his thwarted attempt to speak at Middlebury College this weekend. It is followed by a passage from Alasdair Macintyre's After Virtue - Editor, M.C.] "Worse yet, the intellectual thugs will take […]

March 7, 2017 2

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Veritas et Sapientia-“Higher Education” Is No Longer High

Mandeville, LA - "This is not to say, though, that the colleges have abandoned moral considerations utterly. Relativism is an unstable equilibrium—imagine a pyramid upside down, placed delicately upon its apex. It might make you break out into a cold sweat to stand in its shade. The question is not whether some moral vision will prevail, but which moral vision. The colleges are thus committed to a moral inversion. High […]

March 6, 2017 3

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Veritas et Sapientia-The War On Workers Trump Is Trying To End Was Predicted By Leo XIII

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's Note: Pope Leo XIII's encyclical, Rerum Novarum, is one of the best essays on the topics of Labor and Capital ever written, this is Leo's introduction. - MC] That the spirit of revolutionary change, which has long been disturbing the nations of the world,should have passed beyond the sphere of politics and made its influence felt inthe cognate sphere of practical economics is not surprising. The […]

February 24, 2017 5