Mandeville, LA – The accident of King Richard’s military genius and prestige gave England something which it kept for four hundred years, and without which it is incomprehensible throughout that period—the reputation of being in the very vanguard of chivalry. The great romances of the Round Table, the attachment of knighthood to the name of a...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Joseph Pearce is the co-host of The Pearcing Truth radio hour with Mike Church and is a regular contributor to The CRUSADE Channel. His works are republished here with the graceful permission of our friends at The Imaginative Conservative. Why We Shouldn’t Ban Books And Burn Their Heretical Writers by Joseph Pearce...Read More

Mandeville, LA – “For it must always be remembered in this connexion that masculine costume is different at root from feminine costume — different in its whole essence and aim. It is not merely a question of the man dressing in dull colours or the woman in bright; it is a question of the object.”...Read More

Mandeville, LA – “The Saint is a medicine because he is an antidote. Indeed that is why the saint is often a martyr; he is mistaken for a poison because he is an antidote. He will generally be found restoring the world to sanity by exaggerating whatever the world neglects, which is by no means...Read More

Mandeville, LA – [Editor’s note: On the Mike Church Show I have maintained since 2013 that there can be nothing “conservative” that doesn’t first acknowledge why something is worth “conserving” i.e. because God made it for the benefit of Man. Mister Matthew Johnson has put this into writing, True conservatives, please share, – Ed. M.C.]...Read More

Mandeville, LA – This, therefore, is, in conclusion, my reason for accepting the religion and not merely the scattered and secular truths out of the religion. I do it because the thing has not merely told this truth or that truth, but has revealed itself as a truth-telling thing. The outer ring of Christianity is a...Read More

Podcast (mike_church_preview): Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSSMandeville, La Time  Red Pill Topics & Headlines 6:16 Welcome to the Mike Church Show on www.crusadechannel.com Call the show 844-5CRUSADE 6:25 6:32 HEADLINE: No, Jonah Goldberg, you can’t support abortion and still be a conservative by Calvin Frieburger #ConservativeDumb...Read More

Mandeville, LA – [Editor’s note: Chesterton wrote the following in the last paragraph of his book Heretics. Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson was a political scientist at Cambridge university.- M.C. Ed.] I do not mean that we shall end in destruction. I mean that we shall end in Christianity. “We cannot go back to an ideal of...Read More

  Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – One of the brilliant things about Chesterton is he could write about anything.  You want a novel?  I’ll write you a novel.  You want a story about orthodoxy, about why you guys have your entire lives and the faith all screwed up?  I can write you a book. ...Read More

Mandeville, LA  – [Editor’s note: The misguided children being used as media props by a ruling elite that sees yet another opportunity to destroy a tradition, i.e. ‘Muricans practicing their God-granted right to self-defense, must discount nay ignore what Chesterton called the democracy of the dead. David Hogg should be reading Chesterton, not Marx and...Read More

Mandeville, LA – [Editor’s note: In my talk “How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Save The Free World” I quoted G.K. Chesterton our Veritas et Sapientia muse on society being run by men in dresses, listen to my talk here, the Chesterton Quote appears inline.– Ed., M.C.] Libraries have been written on modernity’s seepage...Read More

Mandeville, LA – [Editor’s note: I’ve used this passage from G.K. Chesterton’s What’s Wrong With The World in more than one talk I’ve given recently and find it both humorous and provocative. Enjoy! – M.C. Ed.] “There is an awful armor of ice which may be the legitimate protection of a more delicate organism; but whatever...Read More

Mandeville, LA – If there are two staring and outstanding facts about science and religion at this particular moment, they are these. First, that science is claiming much less than it did to show us a solid and objective reality. And second, that religion is claiming much more than it did (at least for centuries past)...Read More

Mandeville, LA – [Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from G.K. Chesterton’s “The Everlasting Man” and must be read as Chesterton intended, as more a comedic rebuke of the those worshipping science as religion in his day c. 1920. – M.C.] “In the land lit by that neighbouring star, whose blaze is the broad daylight,...Read More

Podcast (mike_church_preview): Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSSMandeville, LA – This talk was delivered on 18 May, 2017 at Saint Catherine of Lebouré Catholic Church in  Middletown, NJ. The Catholic Gentleman’s Guide To ReConquest How to apply The Faith to your vocation and change the world. There’s...Read More

“Europe has been turned upside down over and over again; and that at the end of each of these revolutions the same religion has again been found on top.” Mandeville, LA – “I have said that Asia and the ancient world had an air of being too old to die. Christendom has had the very...Read More

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...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript –”There is a pattern that is emerging here.  The pattern that is emerging here has a consistency to it.  Anytime there is a consistency, that to me suggests strategy and planning.  My take on this, and I want to get your expert take on this, is, all of these protests...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “I think that this is the biggest challenge in the modern world here.  I don’t think that you can convince anyone of anything.  I think that you can put something in front of them and their goodwill is either going to act positively upon it or it’s going to...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Let’s go to the Dude Maker Hotline and welcome frequent guest and contributor here, Joseph Pearce, back to the program, his first time since the inauguration of President Trump.  That Captain Pearce has graced us with his brilliance and his work and his work ethic.  And we look forward...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “My special guest is Patrick Deneen, the author.  His latest book is called Conserving America?: Essays on Present Discontents. You were mentioning Chesterton earlier, speaking of fish.  It’s either in Orthodoxy or What’s Wrong with the World.  There’s one paragraph in there when he writes about the dead float...Read More

Mandeville, LA – “I do not know what Christmas in the United States is going to be like from now on. I frankly do not! I have seen how it has deteriorated in the past twenty-five years. I know the deceivers and haters of Jesus and Mary, across the street at Harvard College, will go...Read More

Mandeville, LA – “Lastly, there is a fourth class of people who take whatever it is that they happen to want, and say that that is the ultimate aim of evolution. And these are the only sensible people. This is the only really healthy way with the word evolution, to work for what you want,...Read More

Mandeville, LA – [Editor’s note: Thanks to Winston Elliott III for republishing this essay from Anthony Esolen at his Imaginative Conservative site, read the whole essay here.-M.C.] “Choice is the dragon of our day. It smuggles into its charcoal-smelling barrow not goblets and gilt pommels but human souls, one after another after another, enticing them...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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… –...Read More

Joseph Pearce and His Top 10 Books Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “Joseph Pearce is on the Dude Maker Hotline.  This is appearance number three here, I believe, on the Crusade Channel.  David Simpson is here for #WendesdayWisdom.”  Check out today’s transcript for the rest…. Begin Mike Church Show Transcript Mike:  . . ....Read More

Mandeville, LA – It may have seemed something less than a compliment to compare the American Constitution to the Spanish Inquisition. But oddly enough, it does involve a truth; and still more oddly perhaps, it does involve a compliment. The American Constitution does resemble the Spanish Inquisition in this: that it is founded on a creed....Read More

Mike Church And John Sharpe Discuss Distributism Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “Folks, John Sharpe, IHSPress.com is on the Dude Maker Hotline with us.  We’re talking about distributism, but it doesn’t have to be called distributism.  What we’re talking about is basically – I’m going to boil it down and give it another term.  What...Read More

Mandeville, LA – The final fact which fixes this is a sufficiently plain one. Supposing it to be conceded that humanity has acted at least not unnaturally in dividing itself into two halves, respectively typifying the ideals of special talent and of general sanity (since they are genuinely difficult to combine completely in one mind),...Read More

Mandeville, LA – “Now, it is the peculiar honour of Europe since it has been Christian that while it has had aristocracy it has always at the back of its heart treated aristocracy as a weakness—generally as a weakness that must be allowed for. If any one wishes to appreciate this point, let him go...Read More

Does Capitalism Breed Freedom? Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “Obviously they’re just trying to note the idea that capitalism breeds freedom and socialism breeds slavery.  I would argue that’s probably false, too.  Capitalism, let’s just talk about what it is.  First of all, let’s define the term.  Capitalism is based on the idea that...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “One of the most profound things that Chesterton ever said was that if something is worth doing at all, it’s worth doing badly.  That shocked me when I first heard it because it seemed to be counterintuitive.  I’m sure most of us were taught if a thing is worth...Read More

Posted by Mike Church on Friday, February 5, 2016 Mandeville, LA – I published a link to a short film that generated some conversation on anarchy and authority on this page. (see above). The resulting comments illustrate the mental damage that has been inflicted on modern man via error filled philosophies; we call this “education” but that term...Read More

Mandeville, LA  – “Anarchism adjures us to be bold creative artists, and care for no laws or limits. But it is impossible to be an artist and not care for laws and limits. Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long...Read More

You’ll Do Gay Marriage Or Else Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “We have Patrick Deneen on the Dude Maker Hotline with us, who is an essayist, professor, a world traveler, and a man of good faith who is trying to defend the faith.  My vote is we start with white martyrdom.  If there isn’t...Read More

https://media.blubrry.com/crusade/mikechurch.com/mc-media/wisdom_wednesday/20150225_Wisdom_Wednesday_mono.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS Mandeville, LA – 11 March, 2015 – David Simpson and Mike Church produced a lively discussion on the following topics from an enthusiastic Apologetic viewpoint. The Wisdom Wednesday audio is FREE the day of broadcast but will be for Founders...Read More