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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.
Episodes
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Veritate - Empty Hands
In the Season Two finale of Veritate, I tell my conversion story. It begins at my father's deathbed with a question I could not answer: "What if I am wrong?" That question followed me through war, fatherhood, years of searching for truth, the Shroud of Turin, St. Paul on the road to Damascus, my...
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Veritate - Christianity "Catholic" and the Questions
For thirty episodes, every tradition sat in the same chair and answered the same four questions. Today the chair turns around. The season finale of Veritate and the Questions puts the Catholic Church under the same forensic examination as everyone else. No special pleading. We start beneath the...
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Veritate - Scientology and the Questions
A science fiction writer walks into a convention in 1949 and says the real money is in starting a religion. Six years later his church launches Project Celebrity, a recruitment program targeting Hollywood's famous. What follows is the largest infiltration of the United States government in…
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Veritate - Satanism and the Questions
Satanism is the last stop in our journey through Christianity, and it belongs here for a reason. The Greek word for devil is diabolos, the one who divides. This season we watched one Church break into thousands of pieces, each one certain it had found the pure faith. That fragmentation is not an...
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Veritate - Christianity "Prosperity Gospel" and the Questions
The prosperity gospel promises you health, wealth, and a breakthrough, as long as you give first. From the outside it looks like Christianity, and for years it has been the loudest version of it on television. This episode takes that promise apart and holds it up against the four questions every...
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Veritate - Christianity "Quakers" and the Questions
You know the face on the oatmeal box, the pilgrim in the buckle hat, the plain folk you filed somewhere near the Amish. Every one of those pictures is wrong. This episode answers a listener who asked why the Quakers were left out of the Amish, Mennonites, and Puritans, and the answer is the whole...
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Veritate En Español
Quizás conoces el dolor. Un hermano, una hija, una madre que un día dejó la fe de la familia y se fue a otra iglesia. Se fueron convencidos. Tú te quedaste con las preguntas. Aquí no atacamos a nadie. Buscamos la verdad con evidencia, como un detective examina un caso. Porque la fe no es un...
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Veritate - Christianity "Seventh Day Adventist" and the Questions
On October 22, 1844, tens of thousands of people waited for the end of the world. The sun went down and nothing happened. They called it the Great Disappointment, and out of it came the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This episode follows the evidence from that failed date to the doctrine built to...
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Veritate - Christianity "Church of Christ" and the Questions
In the hills of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina there are communities where two separate traditions both claim to have restored the original church. One has a cappella singing and meets in a plain building on Sunday morning. The other built the world's largest Ten Commandments on the…
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Veritate - Christianity "Amish, Mennonites, Puritans" and the Questions
The most disciplined Christians in America do not have the sacraments. They do not have apostolic succession. Several of them deny things the Church has taught since the first century. And they will outlast most of the parishes you drive past on a Sunday morning. Three traditions, three separate...
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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...
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Veritate - Christianity "Jehovah's Witnesses" and the Questions
Before I became Catholic, I could not tell the difference. Two Jehovah's Witnesses would leave my door and I had heard something about Jesus, something about the Bible, something about a better world coming. It sounded like everything I had already heard from the Baptists down the street. That…
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Veritate - Christianity "No Name" and the Questions
There are 44,000 of them in the United States. They have no shared name, no common creed, no authority above the local pastor. They call themselves just Christians. When I was an atheist, I could not figure out what they were. I visited a gymnasium, a barn, a community college classroom, and a...
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Veritate - Christianity "Episcopalian" and the Questions
The Episcopal Church kept everything. The bishops. The creeds. The apostolic succession. The sacraments. The Book of Common Prayer. It is the most Catholic-looking Protestant denomination in America, and it is also one of the most theologically progressive. That is not a contradiction. It is the...
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Veritate - Christianity "Pentecostal" and the Questions
I was seven years old at a family reunion when I heard something that terrified me. Some of my family members were Pentecostal. Someone began to pray and what came out of their mouth was not a language. I did not have the framework to say that at seven. I just knew something was wrong with the...
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Veritate - Christianity "Presbyterian" and the Questions
John Knox would not move. He stood before a weeping queen and held his ground, certain he had followed the argument to its rightful end. He had taken Calvin's theology from Geneva to Edinburgh and built the most disciplined, most intellectually rigorous expression of Reformed Christianity the...
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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...
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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...
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Veritate - Christianity "Baptists" and the Questions
Most Americans have a Baptist in their family. Maybe they are one. The tradition is woven into the fabric of American religious life so deeply that it can feel less like a denomination and more like the default setting of Christian faith in this country. But Baptist churches did not spring from…
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Veritate - Christianity "Anabaptist" and the Questions
Three reformers had already broken from the one Church Christ founded. Luther broke from Rome. Zwingli rejected Luther. Calvin built an entirely new system from the rubble of both. And then a group of people looked at all three and said the same thing each of them had said before. You didn't go…
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Veritate - Christianity "Calvinism" and the Questions
John Calvin was the most systematic thinker of the Reformation. A lawyer by training, he built a complete theological framework covering predestination, total depravity, and irresistible grace that was tighter and more organized than anything Luther or Zwingli produced. But a system can be...
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Veritate - Christianity "Lutheranism" and the Questions
How did Christianity go from one Church to tens of thousands of denominations? In this episode of Veritate, we confront the question directly. If truth comes from God, then truth cannot contradict itself. Yet today Christianity appears fractured into thousands of groups, many of which disagree on...
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Veritate - Christianity "Great Schism" and the Questions
When you step back and investigate Christianity honestly, the modern landscape raises serious questions. Thousands of denominations, thousands of interpretations, and everyone claiming to follow the same Christ and the same Bible. As a practical atheist forced to confront the historical reality…
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Veritate - Christianity and the Questions
In this episode, I walk through the moment my atheism began to fracture. The Shroud of Turin. The Sudarium of Oviedo. Forensic details that refused to behave like myth. Once I applied the scientific method honestly, neutrality died. If you claim to follow truth wherever it leads, then you do not...
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Veritate - New Age and the Questions
I did not skip Christianity because it lacked evidence. I skipped it because I did not want Christ to be true. In this episode, I come clean. I revisit childhood abuse, denominational division in the South, an alcoholic father who rejected Jesus, Iraq, and the years I carried an accusation…
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Veritate - Confucianism Shintoism and the Questions
After examining Zoroastrianism and its cosmic battle between light and darkness, I turn to two very different systems: Confucianism and Shintoism. Why combine them? Because both attempt to build civilization without centering salvation. Both prioritize harmony, order, ritual, and refinement. Both...
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Veritate - Zoroastrianism and the Questions
Zoroastrianism is one of the oldest moral systems in human history, and one of the most influential. Long before modern politics or psychology, it framed reality as a struggle between good and evil and placed responsibility for the future squarely on human choice. In this episode of Veritate,...
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Veritate - Buddhism and the Questions
In this episode of Veritate, I walk through Buddhism the same way I have examined every worldview in this series, by forcing it to answer four questions, who is God, who is man, what went wrong, and how is it fixed. I explain why Buddhism appealed to me as an atheist. It did not demand belief in…
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Veritate - Hinduism and the Questions
Hinduism claims antiquity, depth, and permanence. Older than Christianity, older than Judaism, it presents itself not as a single religion but as an eternal way. In this episode of And the Questions, I examine Hinduism the way I was trained to examine anything that claims authority, under…
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Veritate - Taoism and the Questions
In this episode of Veritate, I begin where I began as an atheist. Before belief, before revelation, before any claim that God speaks, I turned to Taoism. Not because it is the oldest religion, it is not. Hinduism predates it. I began with Taoism because it claims to describe reality before…
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Veritate - Judaism and the Questions
In this episode of Veritate, Judaism is examined using the same four questions applied throughout the series. This is not an attack, but a test of continuity and truth. The episode distinguishes between Biblical Judaism and modern Rabbinic Judaism, explaining how the destruction of the Second...
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Veritate - Islam and the Questions
This episode of Veritate begins a year-long examination of the world’s religions, starting with Islam. Using the Qur’an and the Catholic Bible side by side, we ask the same questions every religion must answer. Who is God? Who is man? What went wrong? How is it fixed? Islam is examined first...
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Veritate - The Christ You Keep. The Mass You Avoid
The world treats Christmas as a single day and moves on the moment the gifts are opened. The Church does not. In this episode of Veritate, we confront what Christmas has become and recover what it actually is. Drawing from the order, silence, and reverence of the Latin Mass, this episode exposes...
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Veritate - Santa Claus is Real: Saint Nicholas, Truth, and the Heart of Christmas
Santa Claus is real, but what most people were told about him is distorted. In this Christmas week episode of Veritate, we return to the real Saint Nicholas. A fourth century bishop who loved Jesus, defended the truth of who Christ is, and gave generously in secret. His life is the reason giving,...
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Veritate - The Wise Men Were Not Wise. They Were Obedient.
The Magi are often treated as decorative figures in the Christmas story, but they were anything but symbolic. In this episode, I strip away the sentiment and examine who the Magi actually were, what writings they likely possessed, and why they recognized the birth of the Messiah while the…
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Veritate - When Holy Days Become Holidays
In this uncompromising episode, Johnny Mack dives into the pattern of desanctification that has corrupted the Christian calendar. We explore how the modern world takes our most essential spiritual observances, our Holy Days, and replaces them with secular, commercialized holidays. We expose the...
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Veritate - The King Must Reign. The Church Must Obey.
The Catholic Church stands at a breaking point. Synodality is promoted as the future, yet the visible fruit is collapse. Doctrine is treated like opinion. Truth is placed on the table for negotiation. Leaders speak in circles while the faithful watch the Church bend toward the world. This episode...
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Veritate - Belief Without Obedience Email
A Protestant listener writes in, wrestling with the difference between saying you believe and actually knowing God. He admits that his life looks no different from unbelievers, and that the common use of John 3:16 as a guarantee of salvation collapses when Scripture is read in context. He…
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Veritate - No More Halfway
This episode speaks to the man who says he believes in God but does not live like it. The man who stands in his home but is not leading it. The man who gives in to vice to escape responsibility. The man whose family is waiting for him to return. You will hear what it means to take responsibility...
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Veritate - The Hollowing of Hallow's Eve
Halloween once belonged to the Church. It was the vigil before All Saints and All Souls, a time for prayer, fasting, and intercession for the dead. Today, it’s a hollow shadow of its former glory, emptied of faith, filled with superstition. In this Veritate episode, Johnny Mac exposes how modern...
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Veritate - God Doesn't Want You Happy?
In this Veritate episode, Johnny Mack opens his heart to speak plainly about one of the hardest truths of the Christian life: God is not interested in your comfort. He’s interested in your conversion. From his years as an atheist chasing success and pleasure, to the moment his son John was...
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Veritate - No Kings but Christ
This episode of Veritate confronts the growing idolatry of politics. The recent “No Kings” protests reveal a culture that has forgotten who truly reigns. Neither the Democrat nor the Republican Party defends the fullness of the Catholic faith. Each compromises truth for votes. You are called to…
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Veritate - We Are All United in the 4 Last Things.
In this powerful episode of Veritate, Johnny Mack confronts what unites us all in the Four Last Things, Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell, the realities that every soul will face, yet most refuse to think about. You’ll hear the truth stripped of comfort and illusion. Death, the great equalizer....
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Veritate - Papal Infallibility and the Confusion of Our Age.
In this episode of Veritate, Johnny Mac confronts the modern confusion surrounding papal infallibility. In an age where every papal quote becomes a headline, Catholics have forgotten how authority truly works. Johnny exposes how noise, opinion, and digital chaos have replaced formation and shows...
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Veritate - Is the Death Penalty Wrong?
In this episode of Veritate, Johnny Mac examines the death penalty through Scripture, Tradition, and the Magisterium, showing that the Church has never taught it is murder but rather a defense of life’s dignity. From Genesis and the Cross to Augustine, Aquinas, and Trent, the witness is clear…
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Veritate - Indifferentism
Indifferentism is the lie that all religions are the same and all paths lead to God. In this episode, I expose its roots in the Enlightenment, Freemasonry, and false theology, and show how it has poisoned families, societies, and even the Church itself. I speak from my own experience as a…
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Veritate - The Duty of Free Speech
Charlie Kirk is dead. Shot while speaking truth. This episode confronts the fear, the silence, and the cowardice infecting Catholics today. You were not baptized to be quiet. You were baptized to speak. This is your duty.
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Veritate - Are you saved by faith alone?
“Faith alone saves.” You’ve heard it. Maybe you’ve believed it. But Scripture says the exact opposite. James declares, “A man is justified by works and not by faith alone.” Even the demons believe, and they are damned. In this episode of Veritate, we tear apart the lie of sola fide. You’ll hear…
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Veritate - Personal Relationship
A personal relationship with Christ is not built on feelings, passing emotions, or private interpretations of Scripture. It is built on communion with Him as He comes to us. In the Eucharist, Christ does not simply speak words from the past. He gives Himself in the present. He does not remain at…
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Veritate - Blessed Are The Peacemakers
Most people think peace means comfort, silence, or getting along. Christ meant something far harder. In this Veritate episode, Blessed Are the Peacemakers, Johnny Mac strips away the false idea of peace and shows that true peace is right order under God. Drawing from Scripture, the Hebrew shalom,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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.
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