Veritas et Sapientia

Mandeville, LA - "This is a naked judicial claim to legislative—indeed, super-legislative—power; a claim fundamentally at odds with our system of government. Except as limited by a constitutional prohibition agreed to by the People, the States are free to adopt whatever laws they like, even those that offend the esteemed Justices’ “reasoned judgment.” A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers does […]

Sapientia et Veritas - "Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is […]

Mandeville, LA -  [Editor's note: Today is the first day of Lent not associated with a Holy Day and a good time to humbly perform an Examen of Conscience and consider what penance may be prescribed. It's not enough to agitate a moral "revival" unless we know what morality we wish to revive.] "With the ever decreasing decline of Catholic influence, the United States has devolved into a quagmire of […]

Mandeville, LA - The TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel, aired a "comedy sketch" lats week that makes Our Lord a GOP candidate, repeating GOP one liners. Some think this public blasphemy is funny. It isn't. Here is Chesterton from his book Heretics explaining why it's not funny. "The theory of the unmorality of art has established itself firmly in the strictly artistic classes. They are free to produce anything they like. […]

Mandeville, LA - "There is this exceptionally beneficial and fruitful advantage to be derived from the study of the past, that you see, set in the clear light of historical truth, examples of every possible type. From these you may select for yourself and your country what to imitate, and also what, as being mischievous in its inception and disastrous in its issues, you are to avoid. Unless, however, I […]

Mandeville, LA - "As soon as I had clearly in my mind this conception of something solid in the solitary and unique character of the divine story, it struck me that there was exactly the same strange and yet solid character in the human story that had led up to it; because that human story also had a root that was divine. I mean that just as the Church seems to grow more remarkable when […]

Mandeville, LA - "Understood the resolve; in this sense, the Americans in general are known to understand it; and not a member of the Congress has stood forth, to remove the mistake, or to soften the common interpretation. Till something of the Kind is thus done, and the language of the resolve is other wise fairly accounted for; it will be impossible for the Americans not to continue in the […]