As the fall semester draws to its close, Mater Dei Seminary pauses to give thanks to Almighty God for the many graces received during these past months of formation. The closing weeks of the semester were marked in a particular way by the sacred liturgy and by the advancement of several of our seminarians in … [Read more…]>
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In this brief series I will explain some of the ideas and processes which have produced a system of machine worship, replacing the earlier revolutionary cult of the worship of Man. >Seen from a critical perspective, modern “progress” from the deification of Man to that of his machines is the liberation of mankind into a trap.>
Our lives are already shaped by machines.
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This episode was another great conversation between myself and Caleb, the host of The New Crusade, in what would be our second of 2025. If you missed our first conversation in July, consider listening to it below:>
As for this conversation, we delved deeper into topics we had already touched upon, while likely introducing new ideas to our audiences. The four main themes were as follows: relations between Jews and Christians, the American revolutionary founding, the false ideal of separation of powers and finally the declining American empire. At the very end of the episode, we took questions from the live audience and gave our advice to young Catholic men. The advice was primarily directed at those with “high agency” and a strong desire to create political change.
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Men, we must raise the floor, not just chase the ceiling. Many men think about improvement the wrong way. We tend to focus on peaks, the intense workout phase, the spiritual retreat, the burst of discipline that lasts a few weeks before life presses back in. We chase motivation. We wait for the right season. They tell themselves they will get serious “once things slow down.” But real masculine formation doesn’t happen at the peak. It happens at the baseline.>Your baseline is what you do on an average Tuesday when no one is watching. It is the minimum you allow yourself to fall to when you are tired, busy, distracted, or discouraged. Over time, that floor becomes your life. For Catholic husbands and fathers, reestablishing the baseline is not optional. It is a duty.>
Most men don’t collapse overnight. They drift. Prayer becomes rushed, then skipped. Exercise becomes occasional, then nonexistent. Reading becomes scrolling. Sleep becomes shallow. Patience becomes thin. Nothing dramatic happens. You still show up. You still work. You still provide. On paper, you’re doing fine.
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For many Catholics, the end of the world and the coming of the Antichrist are among the most interesting topics to study and talk about, and we confess that we are no exception. However, this branch of theology—properly called eschatology and coming from Greek: eschatos (ἔσχατος) meaning “last,” “final” or “uttermost”—is fraught with danger, in that no man knows the day or hour of his death, let alone the exact chronology of the end of the world and the events which precede it. In light of this, we were warned in Sacred Scripture (1 Thess. V, 1-2) about an unhealthy curiosity surrounding these subjects, yet in the same Divine Revelation are revealed certain markers by which we may carefully observe the “signs of the times”. These signs serving as a warning to the faithful and rule for the Church, by which we may prepare for those terrible days.>Noting that we must be on guard against making private judgments, i.e. those inconsistent with the mind of the Church and her approved theologians, or assigning certitude to that which is merely—more or less—probable, we do feel compelled to publish on this topic in The Journal of American Reform. Rather than merely presenting our own opinions, we will turn to the writing of a serious nineteenth-century Jesuit theologian, Fr. Raffaele Ballerini. Readers may remember him from two other essays and commentary we published on a separate, albeit indirectly related topic, the Jewish Question:
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In this series I present to the reader Pascendi Dominici Gregis, the 1907 masterpiece of Pope St. Pius X which explains the errors of Modernism, their causes and their remedies. >To do so I show extracts from A Catechism of Modernism, which was published in 1908 as a guide to Pascendi. >
These extracts are compared with statements from the Modern Church, which illustrate in practice the errors explained in theory by Pope St. Pius X.
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Recently, in describing the history of the Left in America, the prominent author and journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon declared, “Jews built the left in this country. We built the labor movement. We brokered the New Deal. Ninety percent of the lawyers who worked on civil rights cases were Jews. We’ve been at the forefront of every liberal and leftist issue in this country [emphasis added].”1 A stunning admission, perhaps even a confession, but for the fact that she was proud of this well-documented radicalism. In other words, she was bragging, reminding the audience of the leftist bonafides of the Jewish community, drawing upon their participation and leading role in the sexual, social, religious and racial revolutions of twentieth-century America.>Dennis Prager, another prominent figure who could not be credibly accused of antisemitism, made the same observation, only from the perspective of a Jewish conservative. In his interview with the Jewish Learning Institute a few years ago, he lamented, “Every ‘ism’ except except Nazism was founded and/or led disproportionately by Jews. You name it, Marxism, humanism, socialism, environmentalism, feminism, Jews. It’s the Jews. Jews are huge advocates of everything except Judaism. Jews are huge advocates of everything except ethical monotheism (emphasis added).”2
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As the first semester of the 2025–2026 scholastic year draws rapidly to a close, we give thanks to Almighty God for the many blessings He has bestowed upon Mater Dei Seminary. These past months have been filled with study, prayer, community life, and the steady work of priestly formation. We are deeply grateful for the … [Read more…]>
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Marriage is not a comfort. It is a calling. It is the battlefield where a man learns to love as Christ loved — not with words, but with wounds.
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Men, a boy dresses for comfort. A man dresses for duty.>There was a time when a man’s clothing announced his character to the world. In Rome, a young man left boyhood behind when he donned the toga virilis — the plain white toga of manhood. Before this, he wore the toga praetexta, edged in purple, a visible sign of youth, dependence, and immaturity. The moment he put on the white toga, the world knew: this boy is now a man.
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