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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 […]

todaySeptember 14, 2018 4

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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 […]

todaySeptember 13, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia – The Christian Faith Defined And Enforced Just War And ‘Muricah Continues To Ignore It

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: this is an edited version of St Thomas Aquinas' Summa, Part II. 2, Question 40, Article 1: Whether it is always sinful to wage war? - On the 17th Anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, its beyond time that Christian Americans learned what a Just War is and demanded our governments learn and abide by it as well.- M.C.] Part II.2, Question 40, Article 1: Whether […]

todaySeptember 11, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia-Not Every ‘Murican Is A Potential Scholar

Mandeville, LA - "Our [education] system is based upon the assumption, popularly regarded as implicit in the doctrine of equality, that everybody is educable. This has been taken without question from the beginning; it is taken without question now. The whole structure of our system, the entire arrangement of its mechanics, testifies to this. Even our truant laws testify to it, for they are constructed with exclusive reference to school-age, […]

todaySeptember 10, 2018

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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 […]

todaySeptember 5, 2018 2

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Veritas et Sapientia – Erroneous Thought, If Not Checked, Infects Others With The Same Error

Mandeville, LA - "No rank, whether of civil or divine law, can be held in grace without holy justice. For those who are not corrected and those who do not correct are like members beginning to rot, and if the doctor were only to apply ointment without cauterizing the wound, the whole body would become fetid and corrupt. So it is with prelates or with anyone else in authority. If they […]

todayAugust 30, 2018

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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 […]

todayAugust 21, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia – The Beauty of Peasant Proprietors

Mandeville, LA - ON PEASANT PROPRIETORSHIP If we leave things as they are, there will almost certainly be a crash of confiscation. "I have not dealt with any details touching distributed ownership, or its possibility in England, for the reason stated in the text. This book deals with what is wrong, wrong in our root of argument and effort. This wrong is, I say, that we will go forward because we […]

todayAugust 20, 2018 1

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Veritas et Sapientia – Either Papa Francis Is Wrong, Or Moses Is

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: This site and the Mike Church Show have held Dr Fesser's position since the rumors about this began, but Dr. Fesser has placed the crisis in such an unambiguous form that the question must now be answered by every good-willed Catholic: confess the licit Death Penalty as dogma or be pronounced anathema. - Ed. MC] "If Pope Francis really is claiming that capital punishment is […]

todayAugust 16, 2018 1

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