Veritate Podcast

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Welcome to Veritate, Where Truth Isn’t Negotiable This podcast is for those who are done with watered-down faith and lukewarm living. Born from a conversion that shattered decades of atheism, Veritate dives headfirst into the bold, unapologetic truths of the Catholic faith, the kind of truth that calls men to holiness, demands sacrifice, and refuses to bend to modern noise. Each episode confronts the culture, challenges the comfortable, and draws from Sacred Scripture, Tradition, and the lives of the Saints to rekindle what the Church has always taught: that this life is a battle, and only those who pick up their cross daily will endure to the end. If you’re tired of being spoon-fed fluff and want the faith the martyrs died for, raw, real, and rooted in truth, then you’re in the right place. No sugarcoating. No compromise. Just Veritate. Subscribe and join the fight for souls.

  1. 2h ago

    Veritate - Christianity "LDS" and the Questions

    They are the most likeable people who will ever knock on your door. Young, clean-cut, two by two, name tags straight, genuinely warm. Before I became Catholic I had real conversations with Mormon missionaries and they were some of the most pleasant exchanges I had with anyone representing a religious tradition. Then I told one of their members I was a 32nd degree Freemason and needed the whole story, not just the Book of Mormon but everything. He handed me the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price. I opened them. I recognized what I was looking at. Because I had taken the same obligations, learned the same grips, and worked through the same degrees that Joseph Smith received in March 1842, five weeks before he introduced the temple endowment ceremony. Joseph Smith taught that God was once a man, that men can become gods, and that the entire Christian church apostatized after the apostles, leaving no valid Christianity on earth for 1,800 years. He translated the Book of Mormon by placing a stone in a hat. His Doctrine and Covenants contains Section 132, which commands plural marriage as an everlasting covenant and is still in the canon. It contains Section 84, which promises a temple in Independence, Missouri in that generation. The temple has never been built. Moses said one false prophecy disqualifies a prophet. Paul said the angel who delivered the whole enterprise is accursed. And on June 27, 1844, Joseph Smith died at Carthage Jail raising his hands and beginning the Masonic Grand Hailing Sign of Distress. He never finished it. Nobody came. This episode follows the evidence.

    40 min
  2. Apr 19

    Veritate - Christianity "Methodist" and the Questions

    John Wesley never intended to leave the Church of England. He was ordained an Anglican priest, educated at Oxford, and spent his entire ministry insisting that the Methodist movement was a renewal from within, not a departure. But the Church he was trying to renew had been built on a political compromise two hundred years before he was born, and no amount of open air preaching or coal field ministry could fix what had been broken at the foundation. This episode follows Wesley from the Holy Club at Oxford to the strangely warmed heart at Aldersgate Street to the moment he ordained ministers himself, the precise moment a man who believed he had never left the Church of England expressed the Reformation principle as fully as Henry VIII had. The four questions reveal both what Wesley got right and where the tradition he founded could not deliver what it promised. His rejection of Calvinist predestination brought him closer to the Catholic understanding of grace and freedom than almost any Protestant reformer we have covered. His insistence that justification and sanctification cannot be separated is correct. But when the interior experience of the individual becomes the primary site of religious authority, there is no principled stopping point. The warmed heart becomes the final court of appeal. And a tradition built on the warmed heart will keep reaching for a warmer and warmer experience until it produces something Wesley would not recognize. This episode is also a direct word to anyone who was raised in this tradition by people who loved them. We do not know what we do not know. But Christ did not die for your opinion. He died for His Church.

    42 min
  3. Apr 12

    Veritate - Christianity "Anglicanism" and the Questions

    I told you last week we were doing the Methodists. We are not. Not yet. Because before John Wesley makes any sense, you have to understand what he was standing in. And that means going back to 1534, to a king who once held the title Defender of the Faith and then severed his nation from Rome not over doctrine, not over Scripture, not over any question Luther or Calvin had raised, but over a marriage annulment the Pope would not grant. Henry VIII did not reform the Church. He replaced its authority with himself. And when a king can make himself the head of the Church, the Reformation principle has reached its final and most honest expression. What Elizabeth I built from that break was called the via media. The middle way. Catholic structure, Protestant theology, and a deliberate silence on every question that might divide the country. History has treated it as a pragmatic masterpiece. It was not. It was a refusal to answer dressed as diplomacy. John Fisher, the only bishop in England who would not take the Oath of Supremacy, understood that. He paid for that understanding with his life. There is no middle position between the truth and a lie. There is no neutral ground. I know that personally. I spent years as an atheist telling myself that not choosing was the rational position. It was not. It was just a slower kind of failure. That is what the via media was too. And the fractures it produced are still multiplying today.

    30 min

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Welcome to Veritate, Where Truth Isn’t Negotiable This podcast is for those who are done with watered-down faith and lukewarm living. Born from a conversion that shattered decades of atheism, Veritate dives headfirst into the bold, unapologetic truths of the Catholic faith, the kind of truth that calls men to holiness, demands sacrifice, and refuses to bend to modern noise. Each episode confronts the culture, challenges the comfortable, and draws from Sacred Scripture, Tradition, and the lives of the Saints to rekindle what the Church has always taught: that this life is a battle, and only those who pick up their cross daily will endure to the end. If you’re tired of being spoon-fed fluff and want the faith the martyrs died for, raw, real, and rooted in truth, then you’re in the right place. No sugarcoating. No compromise. Just Veritate. Subscribe and join the fight for souls.