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Veritas et Sapientia-War Does Not Make A community Stronger

Mandeville, LA - "So ? too, in the changing moral character and growing spiritual influence of mass war can we observe the contemporary image of community. It is hard not to conclude that modern populations depend increasingly on the symbolism of war for relief from civil conflicts and frustrations. War strikes instantly at the breast of modem man. It soothes even where it hurts. The power of war to create a […]

September 6, 2016 4

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Veritas et Sapientia-Christianity Has Been Found Difficult And Left Untried

Mandevilla, LA - Of course, I mean that Catholicism was not tried; plenty of Catholics were tried, and found guilty. My point is that the world did not tire of the church's ideal, but of its reality. Monasteries were impugned not for the chastity of monks, but for the unchastity of monks. Christianity was unpopular not because of the humility, but of the arrogance of Christians. Certainly, if the church failed […]

August 30, 2016 12

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Word Dogma Can Help Us, But We’d Have To Stop Treating It As a 4 Letter Word

Mandeville, LA - "Mr. George Moore began his literary career by writing his personal confessions; nor is there any harm in this if he had not continued them for the remainder of his life. He is a man of genuinely forcible mind and of great command over a kind of rhetorical and fugitive conviction which excites and pleases. He is in a perpetual state of temporary honesty. He has admired […]

August 26, 2016 5

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Veritas et Sapientia – The Inevitability of Gary Johnson Going “Chirping Sectary”

Mandeville, LA - "It is of high importance, indeed, that American conservatives dissociate them- selves altogether from the little sour remnant called libertarians. In a time requiring long views and self-denial, alliance with a faction founded upon doctrinaire selfishness would be absurd- and practically damaging. It is not merely that cooperation with a tiny chirping sect would be valueless politically; more, such an association would tend to discredit the conservatives, […]

August 25, 2016 11

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Veritas et Sapientia-Government, A Triune Simplicity

Mandeville, LA - [Orestes Brownsosn book On The American Republic should be required reading in every literature course study. This excerpt from its final chapter explains the simplicity of how an order of men in society should be.] "The human race has its life in God, and tends to realize in all orders the Divine Word or Logos, which is logic itself, and the principle of all conciliation, of the dialectic […]

August 23, 2016 10

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Veritas et Sapientia- Hemingway Called It: Murcians Lost Their Fear of War

Mandeville, LA - From Ernest hemingway's "Notes on the Next War: A Serious Topical Letter" first published in Esquire (September 1935) "In modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you […]

August 16, 2016 17

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Veritas et Sapientia-The 54 Day Novena of Cardinal Burke, For ‘Muricah

Mandeville, LA - "There is no doubt that our beloved nation is in one of the worst crises which it has ever experienced, a profound moral crisis which generates division on all levels and results in an ever-greater more pervasive violence and killing. For Roman Catholics, who have always been known for their faith-filled patriotism, the first response to this crisis is fervent prayer and, in particular, prayer through the […]

August 15, 2016 8

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Veritras et Sapientia-What A Heroic Society Is & Why ‘Muricah-2016-Is NOT Heroic

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: Does the following brief passage from Macintyre's chapter The Virtues In heroic Societies sound or look familiar to you? No, perhaps we need a crash course in heroism and Macintyre provides it-M.C.] M.l. Finley has written of Homeric society: The basic values of society were given, predetermined and so were a man's place in the society and the privileges and duties that followed from his […]

August 11, 2016 3

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Veritas et Sapientia – Trump’s Hecklers: Proof of The Age of Vulgar Crowds

Mandeville, LA - "The great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the foundation of the Arabian Empire, seem at first sight determined more especially by political transformations, foreign invasion, or the overthrow of dynasties. But a more attentive study of these events shows that behind their apparent causes the real cause is generally seen to be a profound modification in the […]

August 9, 2016 6