insert_link Veritas et Sapientia Veritas et Sapientia-The Sad Truth Of J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy Mandeville, LA - [Editor's Note: J.D. Vance appeared on the Mike Church Show last Wisdom Wednesday and gave us a snapshot of his new book, out today Hillbilly Elegy. Here's an excerpt that shows Vance pulls no punches in portraying a heartland gone diabolically wrong. - M.C.] "Why didn’t our neighbor leave that abusive man? Why did she spend her money on drugs? Why couldn’t she see that her behavior […] todayJuly 12, 2016 4
insert_link Veritas et Sapientia Veritas et Sapientia – The Murder Monsters of Dallas And Orlando Are Impotent Hacks Compared to Beowolfs Grende; Mandeville, LA - [An excerpt from the Beowolf poem proves literary monsters are scarier than the cowards roaming our streets as monsters.] ’Neath the cloudy cliffs came from the moor then Grendel going, God’s anger bare he. The monster intended some one of earthmen In the hall-building grand to entrap and make way with: He goes towards the joyous building.5 He went under welkin where well he knew of The […] todayJuly 11, 2016 3
insert_link Veritas et Sapientia Veritas et Sapientia – When orthodoxy Meets Orthodoxy, Chesterton Explains The Difference Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note - the following is excerpted from Chetserton's "Orthodoxy", a book written in response to critics loud protestations over his book "Heretics". The term "orthodox" employed by Chesterton is meant in its Original sense, as he explains.-Ed. M.C.] I add one purely pedantic note which comes, as a note naturally should, at the beginning of the book. These essays are concerned only to discuss the actual fact […] todayJuly 6, 2016 6
insert_link Veritas et Sapientia Veritas et Sapientia-Chesterton Confessions: Catholics Have Been Thinking About Thinking For 2,000 Years Mandeville, LA - [Editor's N.B. - I am often asked or sometimes impolitely insulted "wherefore thy Catholicism, Mitter Church?" In the wake of G.B.'s Brexit vote, I can think of no finder explanation for my Philosophia Perennis obsession than the obsession I have been blessed to cultivate for The Truth, or as Chesterton puts it... - Ed. M.C.] Nevertheless, the man who made that remark about Catholics meant something; and it […] todayJune 28, 2016 13
insert_link Veritas et Sapientia Veritas et Sapientia-The Modern World’s Destruction of Christendom Must Be Reveresed Mandeville, LA - A centrally important, paradoxical characteristic of modern liberalism is that it does not prescribe what citizens should believe, how they should live, or what they should care about, but it nonetheless depends for the social cohesion and political vitality of the regimes it informs on the voluntary acceptance of widely shared beliefs, values, and priorities that motivate people’s actions. Otherwise liberal states have to become more legalistic and […] todayJune 27, 2016 9
insert_link Veritas et Sapientia Veritas et Sapientia-The Glorious Martyrdom of St. John Fisher Mandeville, LA - [On this day we honor, pray and seek the intercession, for the sanctity of Sacramental Marriage, of St John Fisher, martyred this day, 22 June, 1535. The brutality of fallen Catholic and self proclaimed "pope" of "The Church of England" should provide a shock to those who perfunctorily accuse The Church of such atrocities.- Ed, MC] This account is taken from The Life of St John Fisher, […] todayJune 22, 2016 8
insert_link Veritas et Sapientia Veritas et Sapientia-The New Paganism Is In Control, Welcome To Neo-Paganistan aka ‘Muricah Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: Historian Hilaire Belloc penned this essay at the dawn of the civil-religion heresy we call Americanism that has now completely enveloped the United States and whose errors have spread to the remainder of the Western World, this revelation was written in 1931. - Ed. - MC] Now, it must be evident to everybody by this time that, with the attack on Faith and the Church […] todayJune 21, 2016 4
insert_link Veritas et Sapientia Veritas e Sapientia-Father’s Day With Chesterton-The Father’s Wine Keeps Flowing Mandeville, LA - To sum up, in so far as it is true that recent centuries have seen an attenuation of Christian doctrine, recent centuries have only seen what the most remote centuries have seen. And even the modern example has only ended as the medieval and pre-medieval examples ended. It is already clear, and grows clearer every day, that it is not going to end in the disappearance of the […] todayJune 17, 2016 11
insert_link Veritas et Sapientia Veritas et Sapientia-The Pain Of Watching Your Children Become OF The World Instead of IN The World Mandeville, LA - "My greatest heartache is to see my wife suffer for our children, for she took great pains to instruct them properly. She home schooled all of our children, created a little farm complete with ducks, sheep, geese, rabbits, goats and cows; we raised our own vegetables and canned close to a thousand quarts a year, and all this to provide wholesome activity as an alternative to worldly […] todayJune 14, 2016 2
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