Veritate Podcast

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 religion itself. No personal God. No commandments. No revelation. Only “the Tao.” Using Taoism’s own writings...

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 Temple permanently altered the religion described in Scripture. Without sacrifice, priesthood, or Temple,...

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 because it was the first religion I was forced to outwardly practice in Iraq in 2005 for survival. Christia...

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 why “keep Christ in Christmas” is incomplete without keeping the Christ Mass itself. We examine how rem...

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, joy, and wonder remain inseparable from Christmas. This episode explores how Saint Nicholas became kno...

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 religious leaders in Jerusalem did not. We walk through the prophecies of Balaam and Daniel that pointed Genti...

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 theft of Thanksgiving, where the perfect sacrifice of the Eucharist is replaced by a single day of consu...

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 exposes the failure of synodality through Scripture, history, and modern evidence. From the Arian cris...

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 confronts the reality that belief without obedience is dead, and asks where to go from here. This episode resp...

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 for the souls entrusted to you. You will hear what happens when a father is spiritually absent. You wil...

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 culture stole Halloween from the Church and replaced holiness with horror. He explains the theology of...

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 miraculously healed of a tumor, Johnny shares how God shattered his false gods and rebuilt his soul through s...

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 be Catholic first, not a party loyalist. Johnny Mack exposes how both parties reject Christ’s kingship i...

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. Judgment, the moment of absolute truth. Heaven, the fulfillment of all desire. Hell, the eternal separat...

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 how the Oath of Pope St. Pius X still stands as the cure for our age of deception. This episode cuts th...

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, even as modern language has caused confusion. With the case of Tyler Robinson and Erika Kirk’s public act...

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 practical atheist, a former Freemason, and now a Catholic who found the truth after 45 years of searching. We...

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.

“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 the blunt truth: Why the Bible condemns faith without works. How Martin Luther invented “faith alone” by...

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 a distance, waiting for us to imagine Him. He enters into us physically, spiritually, and sacramentally...

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, the Arabic salam he learned in Iraq, and the Catholic tradition, he lays out why peace is wholeness, n...

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 politi...

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...

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 Ga...

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 tea...