Triumph of the Beta Male?
By:I recently saw this headline: "Triumph of the Beta Male." It's a story on the HBO series 'Silicon Valley.' I've never seen it. I'm not concerned…
Vocation
Masculine Failure in the Passion of Sts. Perpetua and Felicitas
By:#MeToo We live in a culture that is both overtly sexualized and violent. When those two trends collide, collectively society is rightly appalled as we…
Rethinking Our Smartphone Use
By:I am sure that most of us have seen the humorous meme which says it's no use fearing a coming zombie apocalypse when you are already one yourself, as i…
St. Andrew the Apostle: Patron Saint of “Second Fiddles”
By:Biblically speaking, if anyone had the right to resent playing “second fiddle” to anyone, particularly a sibling, it was Andreas bar Yochannan, better …
America is on Auto-Self-Destruct, Let’s Defuse It
By:This morning my wife and I started discussing the state of our society. You don’t need me to tell you that America is in dire straits. I could list all…
Deceptive Charm and Fleeting Beauty: On Choosing a Wife
By:Personal Notes This Sunday's first reading (in the Ordinary Form) from the Book of Proverbs is often used at weddings. My wife and I did not use it at…
Have you lost your Manly Thumos? How to restore your Spiritedness
By:Homer's Greek epic the Iliad is a catechism on the merits and dangers of θυμός (thumos). Thumos is the breath of the warrior. It is the emboldened spir…
Wear a Suit and Tie to Church
By:This is a short one to my fellow American Men that bugs me often even when I enter my own traditional Catholic parish: If you would wear a suit and …
That’s (Saint) Hilarius: Venerating Your “Birthday Saint”
By:Patrons Galore! The Catholic Church has patron saints for almost anything you can think of. There are also numerous reasons that one might venerate a …
Do Christian Men Need to Become “More Feminine”?
By:I've noticed the invention of a new term: Churchianity. It's used to describe a "soft" form of Christianity in line with Pietism that supplants dogm…