Category: Catholic Manhood
June 3, 2025
The Most Important Thing that Men Need: Order
If you are a drawer, a tool bag, a garage, how ordered are you?
Do you appear to have it together on the outside, but inside lurks chaos, disorder and a lack of peace?
Establishing order in one’s life is the most overlooked, but essential, God-given duty of every man, and is the very foundation of a virtuous, sanctified, accomplished life.... READ MORE
May 28, 2025
The First Mark of A Man of God
Have you ever wondered, “What can I do to be a better man?
How can I become a father who leaves a legacy?
What is the secret to becoming the man that God has created me to be?”
Often men who have been doing the “Church thing” for years become discouraged because they see little spiritual growth or positive character progress shaping their lives. ... READ MORE
May 27, 2025
Another Lamb of God?
The two fundamental arms of the Christian man’s life are identity and mission.
So interdependent upon one another are these two that to neglect one would be to neglect the other.
For if a man knows not who he is, how can he know who he is to become?
If a man does not comprehend his identity in Christ as a son of God, how can he become like God’s Son, the Christ?... READ MORE
May 1, 2025
Your Greatest Battle
Why do so many men experience a midlife crisis?
They wake-up to the reality that they are not who they desire to be and therefore believe that they need to do something to determine or discover their own identity.
This may be the deepest, most fundamental challenge for every man: to know who he really is.
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April 29, 2025
The Formula for Spiritual Freedom and Greater Glory
Why do average people become glorious human beings? Why do some sinners become great saints? What is the secret to receiving, achieving and fully living in the glory of God most high?... READ MORE
April 2, 2025
The Sin of Loneliness
During my interview on Pints of Aquinas with Matt Fradd we discussed the plague of male loneliness that is hollowing out the men of American and globally.
Consider that:
In 1990, 55% of men said that they had six or more close friends.
Today, 15% of men say that they have zero close friends.
80% of men won’t approach a woman for fear of appearing creepy or being rejected.
80% of suicides are men.
20% of men under the age of thirty live at home with their parents.
50% of single men are not trying to date and aren’t interested in pursuing a relationship.
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March 26, 2025
What Suffering is All About
Does God want us to suffer?
Many a preacher of the Gospel contends that Jesus came to deliver us from and alleviate us of our suffering.
Feeding the multitudes, healing the lepers, curing the blind, raising the dead all offer ample testimony that supports this idea.
On the other hand, many a preacher proclaims:
“No suffering…no Jesus. Know suffering, know Jesus.”... READ MORE
March 25, 2025
The Bully’s 4 Tactics
Am I really responsible for other people’s salvation?
Everyone has free will.
Therefore, it is up to each person to decide his own fate. Right?
It is enough to be concerned with getting myself to heaven.
But doesn’t that seem a bit selfish?
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March 19, 2025
What Separates the Men from the Boys
Love your enemies.
Do good to those who hate you.
Our Lord’s command not only seems impossible, but unjust.
Would not the world be better off if the bad were burned, the evil executed, and the unjust justly condemned?
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March 18, 2025
Why Good Men Fail at Becoming Great Men
Adam was a good man…but he failed.
Jesus was the greatest man.
In the moment of what appeared to be the ultimate failure, He succeeded.
Why did Adam fail in the moment of temptation? ... READ MORE
February 17, 2025
Wild Man: Time to Ask For Directions?
...What is your location in the context of God’s plan of salvation?
How does your location affect your vocation?
The answer to the divine question “Where are you?” is the key to understanding and unlocking the power of your masculinity and fatherhood, and will help you understand why you are essential to God’s plan, to your wife, and to your children...... READ MORE
January 20, 2025
What Will You Be Remembered For?
Have you ever trekked the grounds of a cemetery wondering if any of these people are remembered by those living on this earth today, and if they are remembered, for what precisely are they remembered?
If you look closely at those gravestones...... READ MORE
August 21, 2024
The Ultimate World War
Things are not what they seem.
What appears to be the path to peace and fulfillment is often a glass ceiling.
We are being bought off.
Pacified with pleasure, we forget and neglect our noble calling, and the arduous work demanded of us to become men of glory.
Only by becoming a man of glory can we obtain the peace that surpasses all understanding...
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August 21, 2024
The Difference Between Lust and Attraction
My neighbor purchased a new riding lawnmower.
It sparkles. It shines. It purrs like a kitten.
I can admire his lawnmower.
I can appreciate his lawnmower.
Or I can imagine myself riding his lawnmower...
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June 20, 2024
Can Lust Be Conquered? 7 Strategies
Sacrifice compelled by love, is the mark of the true man.
Never trust a man who doesn’t love, sacrifice, or sacrifice for that which he loves.
Especially yourself.
Lust is the enemy that undermines your manhood...
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June 11, 2024
3 Things I Did to Kill the Boy
I was haunted by the unsettling reality that I was not a real man.
Spiritually slothful, easily overcome by temptation, I was a boy trapped in a man’s body.
By the age of 26 I resented the person I had become...
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April 25, 2024
She Consented… And That Makes it Right.
Andrew Tate—particularly in his interview with Tucker Carlson (who gave him a pass)—defends his objectification, abuse, and pornification of women with the excuse that the sexual acts with these women were consensual.
According to Tate, consent justifies a pornographic, adulterous, sexual act.
Let’s test this…... READ MORE
March 11, 2024
Andrew Tate’s ‘Gospel’
Over 100k+ men subscribed ($50 per month) to Andrew Tate’s Hustler University.
Why?
Because he promised something that they did not possess or possessed little of.
Power. Sex. Money.
He convinced men (loosely speaking) that to obtain...
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February 10, 2024
Jesus Denied Me
Each time I heard the Gospel account of the rich young man I cringed.
He pleads with Jesus, “What must I do to gain eternal life?”
Jesus responds, “Go sell all your possessions. Give the money to the poor. Then come and follow me.”
To follow Jesus presupposes that I sell my possessions?
To renounce house, money, furniture would sabotage my wife and children, damaging, if not destroying their lives.
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February 10, 2024
Two Things You Need to Be a Real Man— Do You Have Them?
The LORD is a warrior; Almighty is His name (Exo 15:3).
Men are made in God’s image (See Gen 1:27).
God created men to be warriors.
A warrior fights for that which he loves.
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February 9, 2024
The Quiet Regret Many Fathers Carry — and How to Redeem It
I am a husband. I am a father. I am common.
In the world, I am an unnoticed cog in the wheel.
In the Church, I am just another person in a pew.
The call to greatness, to glory appears beyond me.
I want to follow Christ, to be His saint.
But how.
I looked to the Church for the “way of a father.”
The Church offered so few saintly examples of fathers, no official encyclicals on fatherhood or on being a husband.
It appeared that no blueprint for fatherly sanctity existed.
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