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Veritas et Sapientia – Why Being Rigid Is The Only Position The Christian Man Can Hold

Mandeville, LA - This, therefore, is, in conclusion, my reason for accepting the religion and not merely the scattered and secular truths out of the religion. I do it because the thing has not merely told this truth or that truth, but has revealed itself as a truth-telling thing. The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will […]

todayAugust 13, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Death Penalty Was First Issued In The Garden of Eden

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: Solenge Hertz wrote this essay in 2001, clearly seeing that Pope John Paul II's monkeying around with CCC language on the death penalty was a opening shot in paving the way to end Church teaching on it. The death penalty, from the first one imposed on man by God in the beginning in Eden, to the one imposed on God by man on that Good […]

todayAugust 7, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia -Christianity Is Always Beyond The Times, Forget Being With Them!

Mandeville, LA - "Catholic virtue is often invisible because it is the normal," answered MacIan. "Christianity is always out of fashion because it is always sane; and all fashions are mild insanities. When Italy is mad on art the Church seems too Puritanical; when England is mad on Puritanism the Church seems too artistic. When you quarrel with us now you class us with kingship and despotism; but when you quarrelled […]

todayAugust 2, 2018 1

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Bells of Saint Mary’s No Longer Toll

Mandeville, LA - "The Chicago of my boyhood was an intensely Catholic city. Ask someone where he lived and he was likely to answer with the name of his parish (St. Nicholas of Tolentine, St. Gregory’s). Catholic culture was everywhere in the country a hundred-fold stronger then than now Catholic culture was everywhere in the country a hundred-fold stronger then than now, and the Catholic atmosphere was especially strong in […]

todayJuly 31, 2018 1

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Veritas et Sapientia-Today Is Thursday, Do You Have An Ultimate Thing That Matters? You Should…

Mandeville, LA - "What the signs [of the times] actually tell us is that now—far more than in the past—the times distract us from eternity. Love of God is the first and greatest commandment, but no one today pays attention to it. Ultimate things are considered a private hobby that shouldn’t distract us from the practical realities that are what really matter. Politics, education, and high and low culture tell […]

todayJuly 19, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Growing Futility of War Should Mean We Must Stop Fighting Them

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: I have taken Norman Angell's point from The Great Illusion and added 'America' to the antagonizing country to illustrate that the point he was making in 1910 is even more relevant today.] "The forces which have brought about the economic futility of military power have also rendered it futile as a means of enforcing a nation's moral ideals or imposing social institutions upon a conquered […]

todayJuly 18, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia-The Culture We’re Burning Is Christian Culture

Mandeville, LA - "The beginnings of Western culture are to be found in the new spiritual community which arose from the ruins of the Roman Empire owing to the conversion of the Northern barbarians to the Christian faith. The Christian Church inherited the traditions of the Empire. It came to the barbarians as the bearer of a higher civilization, endowed with the prestige of Roman law and the authority of […]

todayJuly 10, 2018

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Veritas et Sapientia-Little House’s Wisdom & The Meaning of True Independence

Mandeville, LA - Laura and Carrie knew the Declaration by heart, of course, but it gave them a solemn, glorious feeling to hear the words. They took hold of hands and stood listening in the solemnly listening crowd. The Stars and Stripes were fluttering bright against the thin, clear blue overhead, and their minds were saying the words before their ears heard them.The crowd was scattering away then, but Laura stood […]

todayJuly 3, 2018

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