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Veritas et Sapientia – Sometimes You Just Have To Say & Retreat Too “Catacombs, Dude”

Mandeville, LA - [The following is excerpted from Joseph Pearce's review of a new book; and particularly George Weigel's Introduction to it, by Don J. Briel, Renewal of Catholic Higher Education, it is edited for continuity.- Ed. M.C.] It’s sad but true that bunkers are sometimes necessary as places to which we need to retreat, as are catacombs and fortresses. If there are no bunkers, or catacombs, or fortresses, it […]

September 14, 2018 5

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Veritas et Sapientia-Good Economists Must Defend The Liberty To Pursue Holiness

Mandeville, LA - "I myself had a characteristic experience in this respect. Some years before his death, I had the privilege of a discussion with Benedetto Croce, one of the greatest minds of our age. I had put forward the proposition that any society, in all its aspects, is always a unit in which the separate parts are interdependent and make up a whole which cannot be put together by […]

September 13, 2018 6

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Veritas et Sapientia – All Hail, Wine!

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: While visiting with Mr. Aidan Mackey, in Oxford, Oxfordshire England, he receommended I read Hillaire Belloc's poem, In Praise of Wine. I did and so enjoyed it, I'm sharing the conclusion here. Long live ChesterBelloc! - MC - Ed.] When from the waste of such long labour done I too must leave the grape-ennobling sun And like the vineyard worker take my way Down the long […]

September 5, 2018 21

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Veritas et Sapientia-What’s The Cornerstone of “Conservatism”? Hint, Look Up…

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.] "The cornerstone of all conservative thought is that man is a creation of a supreme […]

August 21, 2018 6

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Miracle Of Christianity’s Success

Mandeville, LA - IT is most interesting to observe how the foundations of the present intellectual greatness of Europe were laid, and most wonderful to think that they were ever laid at all. Let us consider how wide and how high is the platform of our knowledge at this day, and what openings in every direction are in progress,—openings of such promise, that, unless some convulsion of society takes place, even […]

June 18, 2018 17

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Veritas et Sapientia – Saint John Damascene’s Story of Mary’s Immaculate Conception

Mandeville, LA - "Joachim and Anne were the parents of Mary. Joachim kept as strict a watch over his thoughts as a shepherd over his flock, having them entirely under his control. For the Lord God led him as a sheep, and he wanted for none of the best things. When I say best, let no one think I mean what is commonly acceptable to the multitude, that upon which […]

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