Veritas et Sapientia

Veritas et Sapientia-The Useful Idiots That Are The Gelded Men of Modernity

Mandeville, LA - "And all the time - such is the tragi-comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more 'drive', or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or 'creativity'. In a sort of ghastly simplicity, we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men […]

October 24, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia – If You Meet A Saint, You’ll Hate Him

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 always the same element in every age. "it is the paradox of history that each […]

October 23, 2018 1

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Veritas et Sapientia – The Red Outrage of The “Rapist In The White House”

Mandeville, LA - "This is what is happening now. Those who support Trump based on his plans for the economy end up labeled fascists, those who support Kavanaugh based on his judicial history are rape apologists (or traitors), and those who support free speech are Nazis. It was similar to after the Parkland shooting when those who support the Second Amendment were slandered as child killers. It’s deplorable. No one […]

October 8, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia – Ritual Defamation Is a Threat To Freedom

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: Thanks to Stella Morabito for digging this important essay up in the middle of the ritual defamation of Brett Kavanaugh. - M.Ç. - Ed.] Ritual Defamation is used to hurt, to intimidate, to destroy, and to persecute, and to avoid the dialogue, debate and discussion upon which a free society depends. The power of ritual defamation lies entirely in its capacity to intimidate and terrorize. […]

October 1, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia – Vaporology: The Myth of A Modern Conservatism

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: In this post I coin the term Vaporology as in Vaporware to describe the study of a political phenomenon that doesn't exist i.e. "conservatism". - Ed. M.C.] "This is why conservatism, in the end, turns out to be a slower, less self-conscious version of liberalism. Liberalism takes as a principle that change is inherently good and, thus, that faster change is even better – as […]

September 26, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Dead Speak For The Living

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: the following is excerpted from T.S. Elliot's Little Gidding poem. MC-Ed.] If you came this way, Taking any route, starting from anywhere, At any time or at any season, It would always be the same: you would have to put off Sense and notion. You are not here to verify, Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity Or carry report. You are here to kneel Where prayer […]

September 24, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia – Catholic Orthodoxy Has What Yewts Crave

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from a letter written by 7 young and newly ordained, catholic priests. -MC-Ed.] The Synod’s Instrumentum Laboris (working document) concedes too much to the sexual revolution, which has caused such great harm to young people. Our generation comes from “liquid” modernity. We have grown up in a culture hostile to all that the Church proposes: the life, death, and resurrection […]

September 20, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia – The Libtards Aim For Kavanaugh But Blow Off Their Big, Left Toe

Mandeville, LA - "Perhaps the Kavanaugh freakish hearing, the distortion of the McCain funeral, the New York Times anonymous op-ed, the Bob Woodward hit book, the Biden rants, Hillary Clinton’s weigh-ins on sexual assault, and the petulant return of Barack Obama to the campaign trail will rouse the progressive base to the polls. MIKE CHURCH SHOW HIGHLIGHTS - DEMOCRATS CAN'T DEMONIZE TEEN SEX THEY'VE ENCOURAGED TEENS TO HAVE But the […]

September 19, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia- Can Shakespeare Save ‘Muricah?

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note, thanks to Winston Elliott and Steven Klugewicz at the Imaginative Conservative for granting permission for me to share Joseph Pearce's essays with Mike Church readers and listeners, visit their site here.] Perhaps an apology might be necessary for the sheer audacity of beginning any essay with such a question and with such a seemingly absurd claim. Of course, Shakespeare cannot save civilization, at least not […]

September 18, 2018 1