Veritate Podcast

Veritate - The MuleMac Show Special

On August 22 we remember. Twenty years ago, brothers in Third Platoon gave their lives in Iraq. They were more than names on stones. Joey, Vic, Newman, Heape, and Big City. We also pay homage to the living of Big Weave, Doc and Third Platoon. Each man carried something of the Gospel on his face: peace, light, zeal, calm, responsibility, mercy, and lightheartedness.
This episode is not about politics or slogans. It is about sacrifice. It is about what it means to fight, not for an idea first, but for the man beside you, for his family waiting at home, for the promises you swore to keep. Their deaths left a hole in the hearts of those who came back. Their lives left a mark deeper than death.
Sacrifice is the watchword. In this memorial, we look at their stories through the light of the Cross. We remember how they lived, how they fell, and what their memory demands of us who remain.

Veritate-You Are Not Off The Battlefield

Evil is not abstract. It is not a metaphor. It is real, personal, and intelligent. In this episode of Veritate, we expose the battlefield of the soul and the enemy who has studied humanity from the beginning. Satan knows what made your ancestors fall. He knows the temptations of Eve, the betrayal of Judas, and the weak points in your own life. He knows every religion and twists truth into lies. If he appeared in his angelic brilliance, you would fall to your knees as men always did when holy angels appeared, except this one would not lift you up. He would press you into the dirt.
We will walk through the four levels of demonic activity: infestation, oppression, obsession, and possession, and show why most people are not possessed but are enslaved by ordinary sins that open doors to the enemy. We will confront the lie that merely “believing in Jesus” guarantees salvation, pointing to Judas as the sobering counterexample. Faith must be lived, not presumed. We will also confront the defensiveness people show when told their actions are evil, confusing conviction with accusation.
This episode is blunt and unfiltered. It will force you to see sin for what it is and to see grace as the only shield strong enough to stand. The battlefield is real. Your enemy is real. And the only victory is in Christ.

Veritate - The Intellect in Chains: Sin’s War Against Your Mind

You think you’re thinking clearly, but sin has already started blinding you. It doesn’t just stain your soul, it corrupts your judgment, twists your reasoning, and makes you defend the very chains that bind you. In this episode, we expose how sin darkens the intellect, how personal vice leads to self-deception, and why the loss of the sense of sin has turned entire nations against God. From the Garden of Eden to the Protestant revolt to today’s moral chaos, the pattern is the same: reject God’s light, and you will call evil good. Stop practicing the lie. Step into the light before your eyes adjust to the darkness forever.

Veritate - Don’t Call Yourself a Christian if You Refuse the Work

Your name isn’t random. It’s a command.You were given an identity tied to duty, obedience, and legacy.In the ancient world, a name meant labor. It meant sacrifice. It meant doing what your father did, whether you liked it or not.
So what does it mean to call yourself Christian?What does it mean to be the son of the Boar, or the son of Grace, or the man at the edge of the woods?
This episode tears into the forgotten truth that inheritance isn’t sentimental; it’s binding.We’ll expose how the modern world rejects tradition, mocks obedience, and idolizes self-made identity.
And we’ll show why God doesn’t care about your intentions if you refuse His work.Christ didn’t improvise. He submitted. He labored. He obeyed.You must do the same.
Why names once carried commands
The ancient link between identity and vocation
Why rejecting tradition is spiritual suicide
How Christ taught the pattern of true sonship
What it really means to live as a Catholic man today
If you wear the name, you owe the labor.This isn’t about feelings. It’s about faithfulness.Listen with humility or don’t listen at all.

Veritate - Repentance: The Lie You’ve Been Told

After the overwhelming response to my last episode on Hell, it’s clear, people are afraid. And rightfully so. Deep down, we know we’re not right with God. We know sin still grips us. But fear alone doesn’t save a soul, repentance does.
In this episode of Veritate, we confront the modern lie that repentance is just about feeling sorry. It’s not. Repentance is war. It’s a full rejection of sin, a return to the authority of Christ, and a submission to the sacrament of Confession, not a private cry for comfort.
We’ll expose the deception of emotional self-forgiveness, explore why confession must be public, ordered, and preferably in the Latin rite, and examine how penance restores what sin has destroyed. Most importantly, we’ll face the eternal consequence of unrepented sin, and why so many souls go to Hell thinking they were forgiven when they never truly repented.
This is not a message of despair. It’s a call to act, while there’s still time.

Veritate - Hell Is Real: The Place, The State, The Choice

Most people think of Hell as a far-off place reserved for the worst of the worst. Murderers, tyrants, or cartoon villains. But what if I told you Hell is closer than you think? That you can live in its shadow long before you die?
In this episode, I speak not just as a Catholic but as a man who has lived in the state of Hell. I was abused as a child, hardened by war, and dead in atheism. I did not know it at the time, but I was already tasting the torments of separation from God. These are the same torments millions choose every single day, whether they realize it or not.
Hell is both a place and a state of being. It is real. It is eternal. And if you think you are immune, you are already in danger.
This is not a scare tactic. It is a wake-up call. Because mercy is offered now, but not forever.
If you want the truth about Hell, the place, the state, and the choice you have to make, this is the episode you cannot afford to ignore.

Veritate - What is a Man?

What is a Man?: The Power of Hidden Fatherhood and Obedience
In an age addicted to noise, recognition, and ego, the silent figure of St. Joseph thunders with relevance. This episode of Veritate dives deep into the life of the man who never spoke a word in Scripture, but whose actions shaped eternity. We explore Joseph’s strength, his obedience, his chastity, and his humble leadership as the earthly father of Christ and guardian of the Virgin Mary.
Far from the weak, elderly figure often portrayed in art, Joseph was a man of vigor and virtue, a model for husbands, fathers, and men today. In a world collapsing under absent fathers and distorted masculinity, we hold up St. Joseph as the answer. Discover why God chose this man to protect the Holy Family, and how his silent fidelity speaks louder than any voice in our time.
This is a call to hidden holiness, to obedience without applause, and to fatherhood rooted in sacrifice, not spotlight.

Veritate-What is Purgatory?

Most Catholics no longer believe in it. Protestants reject it outright. And the modern world pretends it never existed.
But Purgatory is real and the silence around it has cost souls dearly.
In this episode of Veritate, we expose the truth about this forgotten fire: what it is, what Scripture actually says, why the early Church prayed for the dead, and why Protestant objections fall apart under the weight of history and reason.
You’ll learn:
What the Bible really teaches about purification after death
How the early Christians, long before the Middle Ages, offered Masses for the dead
Why God's justice demands it, and His mercy provides it
What the saints and mystics experienced and revealed about Purgatory
And what you can do right now to help the souls who wait there in silence
This is not speculation. It is not pious myth. It is doctrine, rooted in the Church Fathers, affirmed by councils, and practiced by saints for two millennia.
If you think you're too good for Purgatory… this episode is for you.If you’ve forgotten to pray for the dead… this episode is your wake-up call.If you want to love more deeply and live more faithfully… this truth will change everything.
Welcome to Veritate, where we speak the hard truth, because nothing less will save you.

Veritate - Email Questions and Answers

Johnny Mac answers questions received at Veritate@yahoo.com

Veritate - What is the Eucharist?

In this episode of Veritate, we confront the most sacred and most denied truth in Catholicism: the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.
This is not theology class. This is war. A war for reverence, for repentance, for souls.
We go straight to the words of Christ in John 6, the Last Supper, and the warnings of St. Paul. We walk with the Church Fathers, Ignatius, Justin, Augustine, who proclaimed this truth before creeds were written. We examine modern Eucharistic miracles that bleed, live, and endure scientific scrutiny.
We stand with Longinus at the foot of the Cross, as the blood and water pour from the pierced side of God.
And then we ask the only question that matters:Do you really believe?
Because if you do, everything must change. How you live. How you receive. How you adore. How you fight for Him.
This episode isn’t comfortable.It’s not meant to be.It’s meant to wake you up.
The Eucharist is not a symbol.It is Jesus.So kneel, confess, and never approach that altar the same way again.