Jesus Christ is the epitome of what it means to be a man. With masculinity in our culture more confused than ever, join us at The Manly Catholic as we strive to ignite men to be on fire for Christ. Men are challenged and fight battles that often distract them from their ultimate goal: to become a saint. We will help you become saints and become the men God created you to be.
What happens when Christianity loses authority? Chaos follows. Families fracture. Men drift. Truth becomes negotiable.
In Part Two of this conversation with Father Peter Damian, the discussion moves from personal history into the heart of the crisis facing the modern Church and the modern man.
Father Peter continues unpacking his journey from Orthodoxy into the Catholic Church, but the focus sharpens on ecclesial authority, obedience, and why Christ intentionally established a visible Church with a living teaching office. This is not about preference. It is about survival.
Drawing from Sacred Scripture, Church history, and lived pastoral experience, Fr. Peter explains why Christianity without a final authority inevitably fractures. He dismantles the illusion of unity without submission, exposes the danger of theological individualism, and shows why men who refuse authority always end up submitting to something else, whether the state, culture, or their own disordered passions.
The conversation turns practical and confrontational. Fr. Peter speaks directly to Catholic men about obedience, not as weakness, but as strength. Pride masquerades as independence, but humility is the foundation of authentic masculinity. A man who cannot submit to God-given authority cannot lead his family, protect his home, or remain steady under pressure.
James presses the issue further and issues a direct challenge to men who live in half-commitments. You cannot defend the Church while standing outside her walls. You cannot claim Christ while rejecting His Bride. You cannot rebuild a Catholic culture while refusing Catholic discipline.
This episode rejects the comfortable lie that faith can be customized. It cannot. The Gospel demands total allegiance. Christ demands obedience. The Church demands fidelity.
This is a call to decision.
Stop negotiating with the faith. Choose obedience. Submit your intellect and your will fully to Christ and His Church. Cut off the habits, media, and influences that train you to resist authority. A disciplined soul is a free soul.
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What happens when a man grows up under brutal communism, religious persecution, and fear and then discovers that true freedom cannot exist without truth?
In this episode of The Manly Catholic, James sits down with Father Peter Damian, a Catholic priest, son of a Eastern Orthodox pastor, and convert who lived firsthand under the weight of communist ideology in Romania. This is not theory. This is lived experience.
Father Peter shares what life was really like behind the Iron Curtain, where neighbors spied on neighbors, faith was suppressed, and fear ruled daily life. He explains why freedom, once lost, is never something to be taken lightly and why modern men are dangerously naive about what happens when truth collapses.
The conversation turns direct and uncompromising as Father Peter walks through his intellectual conversion from Orthodoxy to Catholicism. He explains why Christ did not leave us a loose federation of opinions but a Church with authority. From Matthew 16 to the Church Fathers, from the papacy to the failures of decentralized Christianity, this episode exposes why unity without authority is impossible and why the early Church always pointed to Peter as the visible head meant to preserve order and truth.
This episode dismantles the lie that freedom means doing whatever you want. Father Peter shows how that lie devastated societies in the East and is now hollowing out the West. Without faith, morality collapses. Without morality, society decays. This is not speculation. It is history repeating itself.
Father Peter also shares his powerful vocational story, including the role Our Lady of Medjugorje played in his conversion and call to the priesthood.
This episode is a direct challenge to Catholic men. Stop living as spectators. Stop outsourcing truth. Stop confusing comfort with freedom. If you want a virtuous society, you must first become a virtuous man rooted in Christ and His Church.
This is Part One of the conversation. The foundation is laid.
The fight continues.
Stop treating freedom as comfort. Start treating it as responsibility. Submit your intellect and your will to Christ and His Church. A man who rejects authority will never lead his family or defend the faith.
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What happens when a man finally stops running from God?
In this episode of The Manly Catholic, we sit down with Father Dominic and newly ordained transitional deacon Logan McGahan to discuss something the Church desperately needs more of: real vocations, real obedience, and real surrender to Jesus Christ.
This is not a polished or sanitized vocation story. It is raw. It is honest. And it will confront you.
Deacon Logan shares his journey from a childhood call to the priesthood, through denial, drugs, alcohol, fear, and distraction, all the way to a decisive moment of prayer where God demanded an answer. Not a vague “maybe someday.” A yes or a no.
You will hear what happens when a man stops negotiating with God and finally submits. Peace follows. Not comfort. Not ease. Peace.
We also unpack what the transitional diaconate actually is, why priestly formation matters, and how the Church is intentionally forming men who love Jesus, love the sacraments, and are willing to give their lives for souls. This conversation pulls back the curtain on seminary life, discernment, spiritual fatherhood, and the cost of obedience.
This episode challenges Catholic men directly. God is still calling. The problem is not a lack of vocations. The problem is men refusing to listen, refusing to sacrifice, and refusing to trust that God’s plan is better than their own.
If you are a father, this episode matters. If you are raising sons, this episode matters. If you are a man who knows God has been calling you to more and you have been running, this episode is for you.
God does not call perfect men. He calls willing men.
Push play. Listen closely. And ask yourself the hard question:
What is God asking of you that you are still refusing to give?
3 Powerful Quotes from the Episode
Key Takeaway for Men
Stop running. Get silent. Go before Jesus in prayer or adoration this week and ask Him plainly what He wants from your life. Then obey. Peace does not come from control. It comes from surrender.
The world says Christmas is over. The Church says it has just begun.
In this homily from Fr. Dom, we step into the Octave of Christmas and confront what this season actually demands of men. This is not a victory lap. This is formation. The Church keeps Christmas alive because families are under attack, fathers are distracted, and men are being pulled away from the center where God must reign.
This episode places you back in front of the manger and refuses to let you look away. The Nativity is not decoration. It is a revelation. God in the flesh lies at the center of the Holy Family, and everything else takes its proper place around Him. That order matters. When God is not in the center, families fracture. When He is, grace flows.
We reflect on the shepherds who dropped everything and ran to Bethlehem in haste. No hesitation. No excuses. Simple men with simple faith who abandoned worldly concerns to worship God. Their childlike faith stands in direct opposition to the pride, arrogance, and self-sufficiency that blinds so many men today.
This episode also confronts hard realities. The massacre of the Holy Innocents exposes the hatred of evil for life itself. Satan targets children and families because that is where the future is formed. That is why the Church places the Holy Family front and center during the Octave of Christmas. This is spiritual warfare, and the family is the frontline.
You will hear again the powerful story of a blind woman who truly saw Christ in the manger. Her faith exposes a painful truth: many who claim sight are blind, while those who trust see clearly. The manger reveals Christ born to die, the wood of the crib pointing directly to the wood of the Cross, and ultimately to the Eucharist, where Christ feeds His people.
This episode challenges men directly. Fathers are called to be righteous like Saint Joseph. Husbands are called to love sacrificially. Families are called to pray together daily. No exceptions. No excuses. The domestic church rises or falls on whether men will lead with humility, obedience, and faith.
The Holy Family is not meant to discourage you. It is meant to call you higher.
Push play. Kneel before the manger. Then go build a family where God reigns at the center.
3 Powerful Quotes from the Episode
Key Takeaway for Men
Put God back at the center of your home today. Pray with your wife. Pray with your children. Lead your domestic church with simple, obedient faith. If a family does not pray together, it will not stand.
Christmas is not soft. It is not sentimental. It is a declaration of war.
In this homily from Fr. Dom, he confronts the manger and exposes what most men have been taught to ignore. The Incarnation is not a cozy scene meant for nostalgia. It is God entering enemy territory. It is Christ coming to do battle for your soul.
Too many men walk past the manger without stopping. We have seen it too many times. We have grown numb. But the Church places the manger front and center for a reason. If you truly see it, it should cut you to the heart and force a response.
In this episode, Fr. Dom shares a true story from his first Christmas as a priest. A blind woman approaches the manger, searching not with her eyes, but with her hands. When she finds the Infant Jesus, she understands what many men miss entirely: those tiny hands and feet were born to be pierced. Born for sacrifice. Born for war.
That moment exposes a hard truth. Faith is not passive. Seeing Christ demands action.
We walk straight from the wood of the manger to the wood of the Cross, and then to the altar. The same Christ who lay in the hay now gives you His Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity in the Eucharist. That reality changes everything, or it should.
This episode forces a question that every Catholic man must answer honestly:
Has Christmas actually changed you?
If the Incarnation does not move you to conversion, you are missing the point. If the manger does not stir you to fight sin, lead your family, and reject the lies of the world, then you are standing still while darkness advances.
Jesus did not come to make you comfortable. He came to claim you. He came to fill you with courage, peace, and resolve. And then He sends you back into the world carrying His light.
Christmas is merry because Christ has already entered the fight and won. But you still have a role to play.
This episode is not meant to be admired. It is meant to be lived.
Push play. Let the manger break your heart. Then take Christ into battle.
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Powerful Quotes from the Episode
Key Takeaway for Men
Stop treating Christmas like a memory and start treating it like a mission. Kneel before the manger or the Eucharist today and give Christ permission to change you. Then lead. Fight sin. Bring light into your home. If Christmas does not lead to conversion, it has been wasted.
The world wants Christmas without Christ.
Noise without silence.
Consumption without conversion.
In this episode of The Manly Catholic, James is joined by Fr. Dom for a direct, unapologetic conversation on Advent, Christmas, and why Catholic men must reclaim the liturgical calendar from a culture that hijacks it every year.
Advent was never meant to be sentimental. It was penitential. It demanded prayer, fasting, discipline, and preparation. Historically, it was forty days for a reason. In this episode, Fr. Dominic breaks down what Advent actually is, why it was shortened, and how consumerism has stripped Catholic men of spiritual readiness.
The discussion moves straight to the battlefield. The manger is not a decoration. It is a sermon. The wood of the trough points to the wood of the Cross. The swaddling clothes point to the tomb. The shepherds reveal the power of simple faith. Christmas is not comfort. It is confrontation.
St. Joseph is held up as the model Catholic man.
Silent.
Obedient.
Strong.
Disciplined.
A guardian who moves when God commands and protects his family without hesitation. This episode makes it clear: families collapse when men abdicate leadership, and cultures rot when fathers refuse to lead.
This is not nostalgia. This is formation.
Men are challenged to reject the secular calendar, slow down, embrace prayer and fasting, and intentionally lead their homes through Advent and Christmas the way the Church intended. Satan thrives on distraction, disorder, and passivity. The antidote is disciplined, obedient, sacrificial masculinity.
If you are tired of shallow faith, distracted homes, and soft leadership, this episode is your call to act.
Reclaim Advent. Strip your life down. Reject consumerism. Commit to prayer, fasting, and discipline. Lead your household intentionally through the liturgical calendar, not the secular one.
Create order through discipline. Choose one concrete act of Advent penance or fasting and lead your home in it without negotiation. Masculine leadership begins with obedience to God.
Men, the battle is here. We run it back with our Exodus episode with Dr. Jared Staudt when we talked about St. Michael's Lent. While St. Michael's Lent has ended, a new beginning is coming on January 5th, 2026 with the main Exodus challenge. Make sure you sign up today before you miss out!
Your marching orders have arrived.
We dive deep into the origins and spiritual power of St. Michael’s Lent, a 40-day Catholic challenge inspired by the great St. Francis of Assisi and rooted in ancient tradition. Learn why this penitential season is critical for men today, how the Exodus 90 team has structured it for modern warriors, and why discipline, order, and sacrifice are the weapons we need now more than ever.
You’ll learn the why behind each discipline and how each is crafted to bring order to your soul, sharpen your spiritual edge, and strengthen your mission as a man of God.
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Challenge Issued in this Episode:
Step into the breach. Find a fraternity. Get the app. Sign up for St. Michael’s Lent. Offer your disciplines for your family. Wake up at 2 a.m. and pray like the Desert Fathers. Let your body rest and your soul fight. The Church needs men who are ready. Are you one of them?
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What happens when a Catholic man stops staying silent and starts taking the Gospel into enemy territory?
In this episode of The Manly Catholic, Fr. Dom sits down with Marshall Brummel, a Catholic convert, husband, and father who refuses to outsource evangelization to someone else. What began as righteous anger over the corruption of his neighborhood turned into something far more demanding: direct, prayerful, face-to-face missionary work in places most Catholics avoid entirely.
Marshall shares his conversion from militant atheism to Catholicism, driven by beauty, reason, Scripture, and ultimately the authority and sacramental power of the Church. But this episode is not about a comfortable conversion story. It is about what comes after conversion, when a man realizes that faith demands action.
You will hear how Marshall and a small group of men entered Pride events, markets, and public spaces not with signs or shouting, but armed with prayer, sacramental preparation, and one disarming question: What is love? What followed were encounters with Protestants, atheists, lukewarm Catholics, pastors, wounded souls, and even open Satanists. No yelling. No compromise. Just truth spoken with charity and courage.
We talk about spiritual warfare the way the Church has always understood it. Preparation through confession. Strength through the Eucharist. Going out two by two. Naming sin without hating the sinner. Protecting the domestic church while refusing to retreat from the public square.
If you have ever felt the fire stirring in your chest and wondered what God is asking of you, press play. This conversation will leave you without excuses.
3 Powerful Quotes from the Episode:
One Immediate Takeaway for Men:
Stop hiding your faith. This week, speak openly about God in one concrete, public way. Say you went to Mass. Ask someone if you can pray for them. Do not wait for permission. The call is already clear.
The battlefield is your neighborhood.
The weapon is charity grounded in truth.
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Ever feel like sin has you pinned down, making holiness seem out of reach? What if God's grace could prevent the fight before it starts? In this episode of The Manly Catholic, we dive deep into the Immaculate Conception; the feast that shows Mary was conceived without original sin, proving God's power to keep us spotless from the jump. Released right after December 8th's Holy Day of Obligation, this isn't just history; it's a wake-up call for every Catholic man striving to lead his family and crush vice.
We unpack the feast's roots from the early Church's "new Eve" vision to Pope Pius IX's 1854 dogma in Ineffabilis Deus, where he declared Mary preserved from sin through Christ's merits. Discover how Franciscans pushed this truth against skeptics like St. Bernard, and why it's one of just 10 universal Holy Days demanding your Mass attendance. Cool ties include the Miraculous Medal's origin, Mary's Lourdes bombshell as "the Immaculate Conception," and her role as U.S. patroness amid pre-Civil War chaos.
This dogma spotlights preventative grace. God equips you to say no to temptation like Mary did with her fiat. As men, we see her as the strong model crushing the serpent's head, pointing straight to Christ in doctrines like her Perpetual Virginity and Assumption. But here's the challenge: Pause today and reflect on your baptism, where you were reborn clean. Commit to daily Rosary prayers, leaning on Mary's intercession to build that unshakeable holiness in your vocation as husband and father.
Don't miss how this truth fortifies your faith against modern doubts, with papal infallibility explained straight from Vatican I. Tune in now—your path to sainthood starts with understanding Mary's yes.
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Start praying the Rosary every day right now—it's your direct line to Mary's intercession, helping you fight sin proactively and step up a
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Catholic men today stand in the middle of a spiritual battlefield, and most don’t even realize it. In this episode, I sit down with Devin Schadt, founder of The Fathers of St. Joseph, co-host of The Catholic Gentleman, and author of The Rule: Councils and Directives for Husbands and Fathers. This conversation is a direct call to arms. If you have grown numb, passive, distracted, or uncertain about your mission as a man, this episode will shake you awake.
From the opening minutes, Devin drills into the truth most men avoid: fatherhood is the epicenter of the entire moral and spiritual crisis in our culture. As he says clearly, if you get the father, you get the marriage, you get the family, you get the parish, and eventually you begin to win the world for Christ. This is not theory. This is spiritual warfare. And the devil knows it.
We break open the wounds men carry, the lies they believe, the gaps in their spiritual lives, and the hunger children have for their father’s gaze. And more importantly, we lay out the path forward. Devin gives practical direction for living St. Joseph’s spirituality, establishing order in the home, blessing your children every night, uniting with your wife as a single spiritual front, and building a “rule of life” that keeps you standing when the spiritual bullets start flying.
If you’re tired of drifting, tired of being spiritually numb, tired of watching the culture swallow families whole, press play.
Referenced in the episode:
• The Rule by Devin Schadt (Sophia Institute Press)
• The Fathers of St. Joseph apostolate
• The Catholic Gentleman podcast
Establish daily prayer—no matter what.
Your family cannot be defended, protected, or spiritually ordered unless you have a lived, disciplined, intimate prayer life with G
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Gratitude is not sentiment. It is not a mood. It is a weapon. In this Black Friday edition of The Manly Catholic, James confronts a spiritual truth that most men overlook. Ingratitude is not harmless. It opens the door to the enemy. Gratitude shuts it. If you are a man serious about spiritual combat, this episode will cut straight through your excuses and call you to live the mission God entrusted to you.
Drawing from Scripture, the Catechism, and the wisdom of the saints, James exposes how the devil exploits bitterness, entitlement, and resentment to weaken Catholic men. He reminds listeners that everything we have is a gift from God. Life. Breath. Family. Vocation. Grace. The sacraments. Even our crosses. Gratitude protects the heart, anchors the mind in truth, and strengthens a man to stand firm in the battle for his soul and the souls entrusted to him.
This episode challenges men to reject passivity during Thanksgiving, Advent, and Christmas. These are not seasons for indulgence or excuses. They are seasons for witness. Seasons for obedience. Seasons for gratitude rooted in humility. James lays out the three core areas every man must give thanks for and gives a concrete, non-negotiable challenge that must be completed before the day ends.
You will leave this episode equipped, convicted, and ready to lead your family with strength and clarity. Gratitude is not optional for a Catholic man. It is justice. It is worship. It is war.
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Three Powerful Quotes from the Transcript
One Key Takeaway for Men
Before the day ends, write down ten things you are grateful for and personally thank one person you have not thanked properly. Gratitude must be deliberate, spoken, and concrete.
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