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The Catholic Gentleman

John Heinen, Devin Schadt

The Catholic Gentleman is a show for Catholic Men on topics related to living your best life in the modern world. Featuring conversations on all aspects of masculinity, as well as interviews with experts, the show seeks to provide practical insights for men of all ages. There are great Catholic men who are intentionally committed to the difficult work of actual life. Join us and be one of them.

Hosts include John Heinen and Devin Schadt.

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Thursday · 1 hr 6 min
4 Things Your Wife Needs From You (But Won't Say)
Men don’t understand women. It’s a refrain that has been heard for centuries. Many men feel that no matter what they do, no matter how much they try to love their wives, she still does not feel secure or appreciated. This lack of understanding can end marriages, and we want to prevent that. Pulling from Devin and Kim Schadt’s new book, The Marriage Gap, today we discuss the 4 core needs of every woman. We dig into what truly makes them feel loved, secure, and appreciated. We will explain the right and wrong ways to men should answer the needs of their wives. 👉 Devin Schadt's new book The Marriage Gap: ⁠ https://sophiainstitute.com/product/the-marriage-gap COUPON CODE for 20% Off: Gentleman20 🟢 Join Catholic Gentleman+ for over 31 sessions of exclusive formation, daily saint quotes, and a brotherhood of men pursuing holiness: ⁠ https://catholicgentlemanplus.com⁠ Video Producer – Joe Haggard 0:00 The Four Core Needs of Your Wife 2:00 The Marriage Gap Explained 4:43 The Mystery of the Feminine 6:50 Facing the Reality of Divorce 12:25 Theological and Practical Unity 25:18 The First Need: Security and Protection 33:37 The Second Need: Strength 47:34 Closeness and Spiritual Leadership ______________________ -- FOLLOW THE CATHOLIC GENTLEMAN – ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/catholicgentleman ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/TheCatholicGentleman ➡️ https://x.com/catholicgent Please SUBSCRIBE and SHARE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 3 · 1 hr 7 min
Former Muslim and Oxford PhD: Why Your Education Failed You
Joined by former Muslim, Oxford PhD recipient, and university founder, Dr. Jacob Imam, today we passionately discuss why the contempt for working with your hands is not just modern, but pagan. We explore how the current education system leaves men in a world that cannot tell them who they are or what they are for. We also get into how the idea that Catholicism has “gone soft” is a false rhetoric and how Islam offers a false sense of strength. From Andrew Tate, to converting from Islam, to what our young men need to be successful as a person in 2026, Jacob provides us with fuel and direction. The College of St. Jospeh the Worker: https://www.collegeofstjoseph.com/ Help the College reclaim the Masonic Temple: https://www.collegeofstjoseph.com/reclaim 0:00 The Crisis of Modern Manhood 1:39 A Journey from Jerusalem to Oxford 3:43 Roots in the Holy Land 7:00 The Legacy of Clerical History 10:41 Finding the Face of Christ 16:05 The Allure of Modern Islam 31:55 Reclaiming the Dignity of Work 1:02:15 Building a New Future 🟢 Join Catholic Gentleman+ for over 31 sessions of exclusive formation, daily saint quotes, and a brotherhood of men pursuing holiness: ⁠ https://catholicgentlemanplus.com⁠ 👉 Devin Schadt's new book The Marriage Gap: ⁠ https://sophiainstitute.com/product/the-marriage-gap COUPON CODE for 20% Off: Gentleman20 Video Producer – Pietro Damasceno ______________________ -- FOLLOW THE CATHOLIC GENTLEMAN – ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/catholicgentleman ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/TheCatholicGentleman ➡️ https://x.com/catholicgent 🔴 PLEASE HELP US GROW THIS CHANNEL 🔴 1. Don’t miss a Youtube Catholic Gentleman Video: Please click SUBSCRIBE, then Click the "Notification Bell" = 🔔 and select “ALL”. This will make sure that you are notified when any new video is released. 2. Please "Like" this video. 👍 3. Please share this video on Facebook and Twitter using the SHARE button. Please SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, AND SHARE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
August 27 · 1 hr 6 min
3 Requirements to a Successful Catholic Marriage
There is always the temptation to keep score. Every little disagreement becomes a legal discussion, and you try so hard to win the case and walk away victorious. But it costs you. 74% of divorced people say their spouse should have worked harder. 73% say they themselves had already done enough. Both cannot be true. Today we discuss the importance of not making your marriage a constant battle to win and how wanting to win can cost you your marriage. We learn to listen to our spouse's heart, not just their words, and to recognize that our needs are God-given. Devin and Kim Schadt have been married thirty years, through cancer, poverty, miscarriage, and a daughter's brain injury. In their new book The Marriage Gap, they lay out the three things every thriving marriage does. 👉 Devin Schadt's new book The Marriage Gap:⁠https://sophiainstitute.com/product/the-marriage-gap⁠ COUPON CODE for 20% Off: Gentleman20 🟢 FREE RTIC Travel Mug with our New Coffee Bundle 🟢 https://store.catholicgentleman.com/collections/coffee/products/coffee-bundle 🟢 Join Catholic Gentleman+ for over 31 sessions of exclusive formation, daily saint quotes, and a brotherhood of men pursuing holiness: https://catholicgentlemanplus.com Video Producer – Pietro Damasceno Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
August 20 · 59 min
Why "Holy" Men Make Lazy Husbands (A Father of 9 Explains)
A man decides he is serious about his faith, and somewhere along the way that becomes the reason he stops trying. His work is sloppy, his day is unstructured, and his wife carries the house while he tells himself he is just not attached to worldly things. He is not being humble, he's using God as cover, and the men around him can see it even when he cannot. Today we sit down with JJ Sanford, a father of nine and the president of the University of Dallas, to talk about the excuse Catholic men keep reaching for. We discuss why magnanimity and humility are sister virtues rather than opposites, why St. Joseph was not spending his Saturdays on the couch while Our Lady did the work, what it means to live your whole day as a prayer instead of fencing your faith into a morning offering and a Sunday Mass, and why outsourcing your thinking to a machine leaves you unable to answer the one question that actually matters: what is God calling you to do with what He gave you. University of Dallas | https://udallas.edu/ 🟢 FREE RTIC Travel Mug with our New Coffee Bundle Learn More Here: https://bit.ly/GabeCastillo 🟢 Join Catholic Gentleman+ for over 31 sessions of exclusive formation, daily saint quotes, and a brotherhood of men pursuing holiness: https://catholicgentlemanplus.com 👉 Devin Schadt's new book The Rule: https://sophiainstitute.com/product/the-rule/⁠ COUPON CODE for 20% Off: Gentleman20 Video Producer: Pietro Damasceno Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
August 13 · 1 hr 5 min
The Shortest Road to Christ: Stop Ignoring Her (w/ Gabe Castillo)
Most men have only an idea of Mary, but not a relationship. Today we discuss how Marian devotion is the best way to grow closer to Christ. We explore how Mary is the perfect example of uniformity with God’s will, Love of God, and the great power of her intercession. Gabriel Castillo is a professional videographer whose videos on Mary have over 17 million views. He’s a husband and father of four. He is the owner of the YouTube channel Gabi after Hours. He also previously served as the Director of Youth Ministry at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Texas. 🟢 FREE RTIC Travel Mug with our New Coffee Bundle 🟢 Learn More Here: https://bit.ly/GabeCastillo 🟢 Join Catholic Gentleman+ for over 31 sessions of exclusive formation, daily saint quotes, and a brotherhood of men pursuing holiness: ⁠ https://catholicgentlemanplus.com⁠ 👉 Devin Schadt's new book The Rule: ⁠ https://sophiainstitute.com/product/the-rule/⁠ COUPON CODE for 20% Off: Gentleman20 Video Producer – Pietro Damasceno Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
August 6 · 1 hr 4 min
Why Most Men Never Grow Up (A Priest Explains)
Men today struggle in two extremes. They believe that their worth is tied to what they accomplish and not who they are, or they are unchallenged and remain immature boys with no direction. Father Edwin Leonard has seen it all. As the former director of vocations for the Dioceses of Dallas and the current pastor of a parish that brings in 9,000 people every Sunday, he has helped hundreds of men with their struggles. Today we discuss how we got here, how prayer and the Gospel are the solution, and 2 things men can do today to fix this. St. Ann Catholic Parish: https://www.stannparish.org/ Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/stanncatholic/ Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/stanncatholicparish 🟢 Join Catholic Gentleman+ for over 31 sessions of exclusive formation, daily saint quotes, and a brotherhood of men pursuing holiness: ⁠ https://catholicgentlemanplus.com⁠ 👉 Devin Schadt's new book The Rule: ⁠ https://sophiainstitute.com/product/the-rule/⁠ COUPON CODE for 20% Off: Gentleman20 Video Producer – Pietro Damasceno ______________________ -- FOLLOW THE CATHOLIC GENTLEMAN – ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/catholicgentleman ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/TheCatholicGentleman ➡️ https://x.com/catholicgent 🔴 PLEASE HELP US GROW THIS CHANNEL 🔴 1. Don’t miss a Youtube Catholic Gentleman Video: Please click SUBSCRIBE, then Click the "Notification Bell" = 🔔 and select “ALL”. This will make sure that you are notified when any new video is released. 2. Please "Like" this video. 👍 3. Please share this video on Facebook and Twitter using the SHARE button. Please SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, AND SHARE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
August 3 · 1 hr 15 min
The 7 Tactics the Devil Uses to Bring Your Spouse to Hell
No marriage ends in a single moment. It's like going down a ladder, one rung at a time, and most men do not notice until they are near the bottom. Today we sit down to name the 7 tactics the devil uses to pull a marriage apart, and the 5 steps you can take today to prevent the devil from winning. We discuss how the disorder in marriage does not come from the nature of man and woman, but from sin, and how resentment is one of the hardest things to overcome. 🟢 Join Catholic Gentleman+ for over 31 sessions of exclusive formation, daily saint quotes, and a brotherhood of men pursuing holiness: ⁠ https://catholicgentlemanplus.com⁠ 👉 Devin Schadt's new book The Rule: ⁠ https://sophiainstitute.com/product/the-rule/⁠ COUPON CODE for 20% Off: Gentleman20 Video Producer – Pietro Damasceno ______________________ -- FOLLOW THE CATHOLIC GENTLEMAN – ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/catholicgentleman ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/TheCatholicGentleman ➡️ https://x.com/catholicgent Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
July 23 · 1 hr 19 min
The Fear of Being the Provider: How to Balance Work and Family Life
Work will take everything you give it. Give it enough and it will be the black hole that swallows your prayer, peace, and your marriage. Today we discuss Ora et Labora, the ancient rhythm of prayer and work that St. Benedict modeled his life after. We explain why work can feel like a curse, the difference between your occupation and your vocation, why good men get addicted to the office, and what St. Gregory the Great named as the hardest labor of all. 🟢 Join Catholic Gentleman+ for over 31 sessions of exclusive formation, daily saint quotes, and a brotherhood of men pursuing holiness: ⁠https://catholicgentlemanplus.com⁠ 👉 Devin Schadt's new book The Rule: ⁠https://sophiainstitute.com/product/the-rule/⁠ COUPON CODE for 20% Off: Gentleman20 Video Producer – Pietro Damasceno Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
July 16 · 1 hr 19 min
The 4 Greatest Threats Facing Men in 2026
Men are facing many problems: 80% of suicides in this country are men, 1 in 5 struggle with severe loneliness, marriage rates for men 35 and older have dropped from 90% to under 60% — and the list goes on. We can feel it, but we struggle to name what is really causing all of this. You cannot beat an enemy you cannot name. So in this episode, we name four of them. Today we explore the answers to these questions — and how to avoid the answers the world wants to give you. We get into four specific threats and four very concrete responses, what it actually means for a man to consecrate himself to our Blessed Mother, and why spending time with the Love of the universe changes everything. Special thanks to Al Smith of Bishop Sheen Today for helping us build this episode. Click below for 40 of Sheen's books, including Treasure in Clay and Soul of the Disciple. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
July 9 · 1 hr 3 min
The Modesty Problem: What She Wears = What She Gets
Other modesty videos mentioned: Jackie Angel on Modesty in the Real World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKACACmlW3U Leah Darrow on Modest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ84oSJcrFE While reading the comments from a previous video, we came across this one: "Please make a video giving husbands tips on how to help their wives dress more modestly, or help those women that struggle with modesty." We read every one, and this time, we didn't just reply. We built an entire episode around it. It doesn't start with policing her wardrobe. A woman dresses from how she's been convinced to see herself and the culture has spent decades doing the convincing. In this episode, we address: What modesty actually is according to St. Thomas Aquinas and why clothing is further down the list than you think. We explain the four real reasons women dress the way they do, why men feel they can't say anything, why women feel they can't be told, and we provide five practical actions a Catholic man can take that don't involve a single word about her outfit. 👉 Devin Schadt's new book The Rule: ⁠https://sophiainstitute.com/product/the-rule/⁠ Video Producer – Pietro Damasceno Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
July 2 · 1 hr 12 min
Are You Accidentally Letting the Devil in Your Home? w/ Dr. John Cuddeback
The Culture of Death is not random. Today we discuss the intelligence behind it and how your home is the first target. We dive deep into why you are so busy it hurts, and why you try so hard to “keep work at work” without realizing this is hurting your family. Feeling as if you are being pulled in a hundred different directions and looking for one simple solution is not the answer. The devil slowly seeps into the ordinary life of a family’s home, and we want to show how to prevent it. We are joined by Dr. John Cuddeback, a professor of philosophy at Christendom College and the author of The Intentional Household: Living as If People Matter. 👉 10% OFF Dr. Cuddeback's new book The Intentional Household: Living as if People Matter: https://store.catholicgentleman.com/products/the-intentional-household-living-as-if-people-matter 🟢 Join Catholic Gentleman+ for over 31 sessions of exclusive formation, daily saint quotes, and a brotherhood of men pursuing holiness: https://catholicgentlemanplus.com 👉 Devin Schadt's new book The Rule: https://sophiainstitute.com/product/the-rule/ COUPON CODE for 20% Off: Gentleman20 Video Producer – Pietro Damasceno Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
June 25 · 1 hr 14 min
No. 1 Way to Unlock God's Blessings in Your Life
We hand our identity to the things we own. The house, the car, the title in the email signature, the number in the account. We see a man who is thirty seven and retired and decide he must have life figured out, and we measure ourselves against a pile we know nothing about. Underneath a lot of it is fear, the fear of losing what we have and the fear of who we would be without it. Devin and I sat down to talk about money, and we ended up talking about that fear, and about a truth we work hard to dodge: none of it belongs to us. Our bodies, our homes, every part of our lives, all of it on loan. Today we dig into the four pillars of stewardship from the USCCB, the parable of the talents, and a framework for giving that works at any income level. We tell the story of Conrad Hilton, a man who lost nearly everything in the Depression, who gave away 97% of his fortune and why his son eventually did the same. 🟢 Join Catholic Gentleman+ for over 31 sessions of exclusive formation, daily saint quotes, and a brotherhood of men pursuing holiness: https://catholicgentlemanplus.com 👉 Devin Schadt's new book The Rule: https://sophiainstitute.com/product/the-rule/ COUPON CODE for 20% Off: Gentleman20 Video Producer – Pietro Damasceno Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
June 18 · 1 hr 26 min
3 Things the World is Stealing from Every Father
The world is stripping three things away from every Catholic man. Not in ways you'd recognize as an attack but disguised as a busy evening, a competing priority, or a reasonable excuse. Then one day you wake up and realize something essential is gone. In this episode, we sit down to name three things the world, the flesh, and the devil are working together to take from you: your role as Kustos, what it means to be the guardian and protector of your family, and why the enemy targets this first. Why original sin was an assault on fatherhood itself, and what it looks like to choose your children the way God the Father chooses you. 🟢 Join Catholic Gentleman+ for over 31 sessions of exclusive formation, daily saint quotes, and a brotherhood of men pursuing holiness: https://catholicgentlemanplus.com 👉 Devin Schadt's new book The Rule: https://sophiainstitute.com/product/the-rule/ COUPON CODE for 20% Off: Gentleman20 Video Producer – Pietro Damasceno Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
June 11 · 1 hr 6 min
Cocaine Addict Becomes On Fire Catholic
A Fortune 250 company's Salesman of the Year. Devoted husband. Faithful Catholic father and a 17-year addiction no one knew about, including his wife. John Edwards spent nearly two decades living two lives at once. He closed sales by day, chased down his dealer by afternoon, and kept the mask on at home so well that no one knew. It held together right up until the morning he sat in a jail cell on Good Friday with nothing left to control. This is the story of how a man hits the absolute bottom and finds out it was never the end of his story. Today, John Heinen and Devin Schadt sit down with John to talk about what actually drives addiction, why isolation is the devil's first move on a man, and how the wound of "am I enough" sends so many men looking for affirmation in all the wrong places. John Edwards is the founder of Pew Ministries and host of the Just a Guy in the Pew podcast. Get a signed copy of John Edwards' book: https://store.justaguyinthepew.com/collections/frontpage/products/power-made-perfect-finding-true-strength-in-christ-autographed-book Learn more - https://justaguyinthepew.com 🟢 Join Catholic Gentleman+ for over 31 sessions of exclusive formation, daily saint quotes, and a brotherhood of men pursuing holiness: https://catholicgentlemanplus.com 👉 Devin Schadt's new book The Rule: https://sophiainstitute.com/product/the-rule/ COUPON CODE for 20% Off: Gentleman20 Video Producer - Pietro Damasceno Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
June 4 · 1 hr 17 min
4 Reasons Satan Hates St. Joseph
The Church calls Saint Joseph the Terror of Demons. A carpenter. A foster father. A man who speaks not a single word in Scripture. And hell is terrified of him. In this episode, John Heinen sits down with Devin Schadt, executive director of the Fathers of Saint Joseph, to unpack the four reasons Satan hates Saint Joseph. These are the virtues that send demons running. The same virtues every Catholic man is called to build. We discuss how being called a just man used to be the highest honor a man could receive, the importance of prompt obedience, confidence, and magnanimity, and silent sacrifice. Saint Joseph gives us the example and pattern to achieve this. Litany of St. Joseph - https://catholicgentleman.com/2026/05/litany-of-st-joseph 🟢 Join Catholic Gentleman+ with over 31 sessions of exclusive formation, daily saint quotes, and a brotherhood of men pursuing holiness: ⁠⁠https://catholicgentlemanplus.com/rosary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 28 · 1 hr 14 min
The Drift that's Killing Catholic Men
🟢 FREE Handmade Rosary This Month for those joining CG+ https://catholicgentlemanplus.com/rosary Drift It accumulates in the gap between who we intended to be and who we've actually become. Recent studies show that 63% of men wish they didn't have to be adults, and 41% of men between 24 and 29 don't feel like adults at all. That's not a personality quirk. That's a crisis. This week, John and Devin trace how we got here, from G. Stanley Hall's early 1900s invention of adolescence as a cultural category, to the market forces and generational messaging that turned extended boyhood into an identity. But the the deeper question is what it actually takes to move from boy to man, and the answer isn't hustle or stoicism. It starts with taking responsibility, stop blaming, and build toward conviction. As Aquinas makes clear, the order of love in a man's life begins with God and flows outward through vocation, marriage, and fatherhood. The irreplaceable call that cannot be transferred or replaced. And it ends with self-mastery, not as an end in itself, but because a man who cannot possess himself has nothing to give. St. Paul says it plainly in 1 Corinthians 13:11: "When I became a man, I gave up childish ways." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 21 · 1 hr 24 min
4 Temptations Every Man Faces and How to Overcome Them
🟢 FREE Handmade Rosary This Month for those joining CG+ https://catholicgentlemanplus.com/rosary We know the temptations that hunt us, the ones we can't seem to outrun no matter how serious we get about our interior life. In this episode, John Heinen and Devin Schadt walk through a practical four-temptation framework with the corresponding virtues that combat each one. From lust as a disordered desire rather than a foreign attack, to the "respectable sin" of greed we praise as ambition, to the pride we cannot see in ourselves, to the sloth hiding inside our busiest days. We get honest about why temptation is not the sign that we're losing but the sign that the devil has marked us because he's afraid of us, why tithing belongs to today and not to some future income, why we're called to pursue excellence without attaching ourselves to it, and what Mother Teresa told the priest who was too busy for adoration. This isn't a list of sins to feel bad about. It's the field on which virtue is won, built on the conviction that to be a man is to have virtue, and to have virtue is to have power. 👉 Devin Schadt's new book The Rule: ⁠https://sophiainstitute.com/product/the-rule/ COUPON CODE for 20% Off: Gentleman20 Video Producer – Pietro Damasceno Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 14 · 1 hr 15 min
No. 1 Reason Men Can't Finish Hard Things w/ John Sablan
🟢 FREE Handmade Rosary This Month for those joining CG+ ⁠⁠https://catholicgentlemanplus.com/rosary John Sablan spent the better part of his adult life being what he now calls the X factor in his family: the one holding everything back. Raised in abuse, living a wayward life, he and his wife stumbled into the Catholic Church, and he settled comfortably into being lukewarm. His marriage came to the edge. Then at a men's conference, with a general confession, and a priest praying deliverance over him in Latin changed the trajectory. In this conversation, John Heinen and Devin Schadt sit down with John Sablan to get at the real roots of what's keeping men soft and what it actually takes to do something about it. Rooted in Thomistic psychology (which he studied under Fr. Chad Ripperger), John defines effeminacy the way Aquinas did: not a personality flaw, but a moral vice. The inability to deny pleasure in order to pursue the arduous good. He unpacks the trap men fall into when they finally decide to get serious: trading softness for stoicism, white-knuckling virtue as a self-improvement project, making the whole thing about proving themselves rather than serving God. They also tackle why "do you want to save your marriage?" is the wrong question. 🔥 Follow John and all his work - www.serviaminstitute.com www.johnsablan.com www.worldablaze.org FREE Handmade Wooden Rosary with Pardon Crucifix This Month for those joining CG+. 🟢 Join Catholic Gentleman+ for over 31 sessions of exclusive formation, daily saint quotes, and a brotherhood of men pursuing holiness: ⁠⁠https://catholicgentlemanplus.com/rosary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 7 · 1 hr 6 min
Why 90% of Catholic Kids Leave the Faith (w/ Dr. Greg Popcak)
This stat should shake every Catholic father awake: 85 to 90 percent of kids raised in Catholic homes will leave the faith by adulthood. We've somehow accepted that as normal. It's not. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Greg Popcak, a Catholic counselor with over 30 years in the trenches and author of more than 20 books, to talk about what the families who beat those odds are actually doing differently. Greg walks me through the 12 research-validated habits that families who successfully pass on the faith all share in common, what he calls the Liturgy of Domestic Church Life. We get into why just dragging your kids to Mass and white-knuckling the family Rosary isn't enough if there's no joy behind it, why your kids need to experience the Faith as the source of the meaning in your home and not just the source of the rules. He breaks down what headship actually looks like when it's modeled after the ministerial priesthood rather than a dictator, and he tells a story from his time in Hong Kong about a father who tried to hug his daughter for the first time and she didn't even know what he was doing. Catholic Hom App — https://www.catholichom.com/ Catholic Counselors — https://catholiccounselors.com/ More to Life — Greg and Lisa's daily EWTN radio program https://www.ewtn.com/radio/shows/more2life Books by Greg Popcak: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001JS8324/allbooks FREE Handmade Wooden Rosary with Pardon Crucifix This Month for those joining CG+ 🟢 Join Catholic Gentleman+ for over 31 sessions of exclusive formation, daily saint quotes, and a brotherhood of men pursuing holiness: ⁠⁠https://catholicgentlemanplus.com/rosary 👉 Devin Schadt's new book The Rule: ⁠https://sophiainstitute.com/product/the-rule/ COUPON CODE for 20% Off: Gentleman20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
April 26 · 1 hr 3 min
Exorcist Fr. Ripperger: Raising Your Sons to Be Men
Exorcist priest Fr. Chad Ripperger grew up working in his father's diesel mechanics shop, where he learned that reality doesn't care what you think or how you feel. A bolt either fits or it doesn't. A machine is either fixed or it isn't. And a man is either being formed or he's being stunted. In this conversation, Fr. Ripperger unpacks why young men today are trapped in adolescence, what the curse of Adam has to do with effeminacy, and how the simple act of learning to use tools and do hard work is the antidote to the softness crippling an entire generation. From the lessons his father taught him through one-liners and long days under the hood, to why men find such deep fulfillment in buying a new tool, to how his formation as a mechanic directly prepared him for his work as an exorcist, Fr. Ripperger connects the practical and the spiritual in a way only he can. If you're raising boys or trying to become the man you never had an example of, this one's worth your time. This conversation was originally recorded in June 2024. Get Fr. Ripperger's Book - Shop Talk - https://www.amazon.com/Shop-Talk-Catholic-Philosophical-Theological/dp/B0D5W954DK/ref=sr_1_1 🟢 Join Catholic Gentleman+ for over 31 sessions of exclusive formation, daily saint quotes, and a brotherhood of men pursuing holiness: ⁠⁠https://catholicgentlemanplus.com⁠⁠ 👉 Devin Schadt's new book The Rule: ⁠https://sophiainstitute.com/product/the-rule/ COUPON CODE for 20% Off: Gentleman20 Video Producer – Pietro Damasceno Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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