The Truman Show, Inverted: Why the Film Is the Mirror Image of the Modern Lie
Anyone who looks critically at the modern world eventually arrives at The Truman Show. Peter Weir's 1998 film is by now more than entertainment: it has become a metaphor for the suspicion that reality is staged, that somewhere behind the set people sit who direct everything, and that we — like Truman Burbank — are…
The Secular Inquisition: How the State, via ‘Transitional Justice,’ Sets Itself Up as the New God
The contemporary handling of institutional abuse files marks far more than a procedural shift in our legal system. We are witnessing a fundamental redefinition of moral and juridical sovereignty. The rise of *Transitional Justice* must be understood as the transformation of the classical legal order into a system built on what the legal philosopher Shahin…
A Search for the Humanity of Judas
In an earlier reflection, I tried to see Judas not as the one-dimensional monster we have made him out to be, but as a man of flesh and blood. Am I the only one who looks at Judas this way? Who else has gazed into that same dark mirror, and what did they see? In…
The Mirror of Judas Iscariot
There is no name as heavily laden as that of Judas Iscariot. For two thousand years his name has stood as a synonym for ultimate evil, for the dagger in the back, for the kiss that brings death. Across the centuries we have depicted him and seen him as a monster — and that is…
The Languages of the Invisible: How Time and Technology Shape How We Speak of God
The human condition has remained remarkably constant across the millennia. An early Christian in the Roman Empire, a medieval peasant, a Buddhist monk in Tibet, and a modern data analyst in Amsterdam all experience, at the core, the same inner world. Yet if we asked them to describe what is happening within them, we would…
Why We Must Fall to Our Knees Before the Source of Life
For many of us, faith has become an escape route — a way of softening the sharp edges of existence. We have made of Christianity a comforting but deeply misleading fairy tale: religion as a cosmic loophole. But anyone who truly seeks Truth (*In Veritatem*) discovers that the cosmos does not bend to our wishful…
Why We Must Lose Control to Be Truly Animated by the Holy Spirit
We live in an age obsessed with control. From our careers to our leisure, and tragically often even in our spiritual life, we try to streamline everything. We have come to believe in the myth of *makeability*: the idea that we ourselves are the architects of our happiness, our identity, our meaning. The truth we…
The Illusion of the Political Struggle: How Christ Broke Through Worldly Polarization
Throughout the centuries, humanity has been held in the grip of a stubborn illusion: the conviction that the salvation of the world depends on the victory of one political camp over the other. In our own time, the great tragedy is not that the world is on fire from this polarization; it is that the…
Why the SSPX Is, at Its Core, a Materialistic and Modern Church
To the casual observer, the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) appears the ultimate bastion of spiritual purity. In a modern world flooded by secularism, and a mainstream Catholic Church wrestling with internal reform and modernization, the SSPX presents itself as the last fortress of the sacred. Yet scratch the lacquer of its traditionalism, and…
How Political and Financial Elites Try to Split the Church From Within Through the SSPX
In a modern world steered to a high degree by abstractions — where reality has been replaced by screens, financial models, and the marketing language of political propaganda — there is, historically, only one institution that fundamentally endures. That is the Catholic Church. She is the edifice of the Logos, the Truth made flesh.
In Veritatem
A search for truth
