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Veritas et Sapientia – Memo To LGBTQ Apostates, The Devout Will Not Cooperate Anymore

Mandeville, LA - "The future of the Church can and will issue from those whose roots are deep and who live from the pure fullness of their faith. It will not issue from those who accommodate themselves merely to the passing moment or from those who merely criticize others and assume that they themselves are infallible measuring rods; nor will it issue from those who take the easier road, who […]

October 25, 2016 2

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Era Of Dangerous Thinking Has Arrived

Mandeville, LA - "Sound bites now pass for erudite commentary and merge with the banality of celebrity culture, which produces its own self-serving illiteracy and cult of privatization and consumerism. Moreover, as the power of communication and language wanes, collapsing into the seepage of hateful discourses, the eager cheerleaders of casino capitalism along with the ever-present anti-public intellectuals dominate the airwaves and screen culture in order to aggressively wage a […]

October 18, 2016 4

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Veritas et Sapientia-The City of Man Is The City of Trump

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note. St Augustine is my patron Saint and can always be turned to when looking for how the secular world should be as opposed to how it is. The City of God v The City of Man is of primary use in this regard, consider, for example, Augustine's view of secular Roman society and what kind of man it produces. It sounds familiar doesn't it? - […]

October 11, 2016 6

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Veritas et Sapientia-Business Promotes Selfishness

Mandeville, LA - Creating Problems Business men say that because everybody is selfish, business must therefore be based on selfishness. But when business is based on selfishness everybody is busy becoming more selfish. And when everybody is busy becoming more selfish. we have classes and clashes. Business cannot set its house in order because business men are moved by selfish motives. Business men create problems. they do not solve them. […]

October 5, 2016 2

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Puritan Creation of “Homo Americanus”

Mandeville, LA - To decipher the intricacies of the American system, a student must look to the religious phenomenon of Puritanism. In the British context the strongest political standard bearer of Puritanism, Oliver Cromwell, was a transient figure who had no lasting political impact either on the United Kingdom or continental Europe. Yet Cromwell’s political legacy has had more effect on the American mentality than Lenin’s rhetoric had on Bolshevik Russia. […]

September 9, 2016 3

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Veritas et Sapientia-Beware “Choice” It’s a Maiden In Black Silk

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 there with “choices,” all of them more or less trivial, while it sits upon the […]

September 7, 2016 14

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Veritas et Sapientia-Government, A Triune Simplicity

Mandeville, LA - [Orestes Brownsosn book On The American Republic should be required reading in every literature course study. This excerpt from its final chapter explains the simplicity of how an order of men in society should be.] "The human race has its life in God, and tends to realize in all orders the Divine Word or Logos, which is logic itself, and the principle of all conciliation, of the dialectic […]

August 23, 2016 8

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Veritas et Sapientia-The 54 Day Novena of Cardinal Burke, For ‘Muricah

Mandeville, LA - "There is no doubt that our beloved nation is in one of the worst crises which it has ever experienced, a profound moral crisis which generates division on all levels and results in an ever-greater more pervasive violence and killing. For Roman Catholics, who have always been known for their faith-filled patriotism, the first response to this crisis is fervent prayer and, in particular, prayer through the […]

August 15, 2016 7

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Veritras et Sapientia-What A Heroic Society Is & Why ‘Muricah-2016-Is NOT Heroic

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: Does the following brief passage from Macintyre's chapter The Virtues In heroic Societies sound or look familiar to you? No, perhaps we need a crash course in heroism and Macintyre provides it-M.C.] M.l. Finley has written of Homeric society: The basic values of society were given, predetermined and so were a man's place in the society and the privileges and duties that followed from his […]

August 11, 2016