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Veritas et Sapientia – Muslims Can Be Classified As “Alien Friends”, Thus, Viriginia Does NOT Have To Import Them-James Madison

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: This was originally published on Oct 3, 2018. The following is taken from the famous Virginia Report of 1800-1801 that provided a summery of Virginia's 1798 attempt at a "nullification" of the Alien & Sedition Acts. For further history of this VITAL federal principle and the controversy surrounding it's now, much needed use, see: Reassessing Responses to the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. New Evidence from the Tennessee and […]

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Veritas et Sapientia-Most Wars Don’t Benefit States, James Madison Would Agree

Senator Rand Paul rejects war with Persia because it wouldn't benefit Kentucky, he's right, and James Madison would agree. "A local spirit will infallibly prevail much more in the members of the congress, than a national spirit will prevail in the legislatures of the particular states. Every one knows, that a great proportion of the errors committed by the state legislatures, proceeds from the disposition of the members to sacrifice […]

June 19, 2019 21

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Veritas et Sapientia – The Epic Battle of Catholic Man vs Secular Man

Editor's Note: The Epic Battle of Catholic Man vs Secular Man is excerpted from Joseph Pearce's newest book, Literature, What Every Catholic Should Know. In the great works of literature we discover a deep understanding of man’s been and purpose. We discover that the human person is homo viator [Catholic Man], a pilgrim or wayfarer who journeys through mortal life with eternal life always in mind. This understanding of who […]

May 20, 2019 8

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Veritas et Sapientia-Chivalrous Knights And Their Pilgrimages

Mandeville, LA - The greatest work ever written on the subject of chivalrous knights and their pilgrimages was written by Geoffroi de Charny, a French Knight. Charny's book is considered the hand guide to chivalry. We shall first consider those who aim to make their reputation by a great enterprise, undertaking distant journeys and pilgrimages in several far-away and foreign countries; they may thereby see many strange and unusual things […]

May 13, 2019 7

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Veritas et Sapientia – The Enduring Wisdom of Reverend James V. Schall

Editor's note: I have been reading Rev. Schall since I discovered his works about 5 years ago. The good priest died at the age of 91 years of age on April 17 of this year, the following is an excerpt from his last essay, published by the Russell Kirk Center. I have included a typical eulogy for a priest that the Reverend Alban Butler, author of Butler's Lives of the […]

April 30, 2019 2

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Veritas et Sapientia – If Mayor Pete Is Right Than Our Lord Has Been Wrong For 2,000 Years

On Spy Wednesday The Gospel the tells us that the former harlot Mary Magdelene remains free of that sin and Our Lord lets her annoint his hair and feet, would Our Lord allow "Mayor Pete" and his sodomite "husband" to do the same? - Mike Church, Editor Mandeville, LA - Yet Mayor Pete’s assertion—that God made him gay and intended that he live his life this way, and that this […]

April 18, 2019 4

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Veritas et Sapientia – Once Taxing Is Legal Your Batteries Aren’t Safe

Mandeville, LA - From John Taylor of Caroline County's magnificent argument on the Constitutionality of The Carriage Tax, available here. A reference to the progress of the excise in England, will illustrate this insatiable construction. It commenced about a century past, and has since glided along until it has mingled its poison with almost every human enjoyment.Its ravages have already been extended to beer, ale, cyder, perry, metheglin, mead, strong […]

April 8, 2019 13

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Veritas et Sapientia-Time For The New Knights To Arise And Save Their Country!

Mandeville, LA - "This is, I say, a new kind of knighthood and one unknown to the ages gone by. It ceaselessly wages a twofold war both against flesh and blood and against a spiritual army of evil in the heavens. When someone strongly resists a foe in the flesh, relying solely on the strength of the flesh, I would hardly remark it, since this is common enough. And when […]

April 4, 2019 20

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Veritas et Sapientia-Libs Must Prove That Thomas Aquinas Was “Wrong”

Liberals and the enemies of tradition cannot be allowed to run their "woke" traps, making ridiculous claims about e.g. St Thomas Aquinas being "wrong"; they must prove their accusations. Excerpted from David Breitenbeck's "A Brief History of Tradition" "Traditionalism fundamentally rejects the Whig interpretation of history, namely that mankind lived for age upon age in superstitious ignorance, which through the dawning light of reason, he emerged about the Renaissance and […]

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