"Living without a community is like living without a soul." - Charles Rumore

Mr Jason Craig of Fraternus and Sword and Spade Magazine returns to the Two Cities Podcast to discuss Catholic community-building. We explore modern family diaspora versus stability in rootedness; the genius loci; the lay vocation of hospitality; the monastic model, the question of American rugged individualism and communitarianism; corporate personhood and the industrialisation and denaturing of human needs.

Mr Craig concludes by asking: should we flee to the city?

Jason M. Craig is the editor of Those Catholic Men and Sword&Spade magazine, the author of Leaving Boyhood Behind (OSV 2019), The Liturgy of the Land. and co-founder of Fraternus. He has a Masters in Theology from the Augustine Institute. Craig runs a small Grade A dairy with his family and hosts retreats and workshops for men through St. Joseph’s Farm.

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American Reform joins the Two Cities Podcast to discuss the condemned error of Americanism following his article - 'The Godless Constitution: America's Original Sin.'

In this discussion we cover: the origins of Americanism; the teachings of the Americanist bishops; the liberal errors of separation of powers and popular sovereignty; the influence of Americanism on the wider Universal Church; Synagogue power and the post-liberals and the future conversion of the United States.

The Journal of American Reform can be found here: https://americanreform.substack.com/

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Thomas Storck shares his insights on the Church's teaching on the Just Price and Just Wages. "To sell something more dearly than it is worth, or buy it more cheaply, in itself is unjust and illicit."

"To defraud any one of wages that are his due is a great crime which cries to the avenging anger of Heaven." - Leo XIII (Rerum Novarum)

Thomas Stock has been writing on economics, Catholic social teaching, Catholic culture and related topics since the 1980s. He is the author, editor or translator of eleven previous books, and is a contributing editor of New Oxford Review and a member of The Chesterton Review. He is the author of From Christendom to Americanism and Beyond: The Long, Jagged Trail to a Postmodern Void and Economics: An Alternative Introduction.

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Following the famous “five stages of grief” model developed by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, I present a typology of psychological responses to ‘The Crisis’ in both the temporal and spiritual spheres.

With thanks to John Lane.

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An exclusive first interview with the author of Inferno: A Journey Through Modern Hell in Search of Eternal Truth, Augustine Virgil

I am joined by Augustine Virgil (Fourth Eclogue Substack - https://goodvirgil.substack.com/) for a first look at his new book on the modern media hellscape, published by Stabat Mater Press.

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We explore the outer rings of the infernal landscape; the quasi liturgical and religious nature of false political movements; the discordian officially-approved conspiracy sphre; the Neo-Nietzschean ‘land of sun and steel’; and the gnostic spheres of the light magicians and the perfecti. 

LA COMMEDIA MODERNA is a full length trilogy that is to be published by independent Traditional Catholic publisher Stabat Mater Press, with the INFERNO released on the 8th of December 2025, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. It will then be followed by the two sequels: PURGATORIO and PARADISO.

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A major feature of contemporary politics, media and culture is the humiliation ritual. Will Tucker and I explore Aristotle's writings on Tyranny and its means of preservation, including humiliation of the subjects.
Mr Tucker presents his research on the occult metaphysics of ritual humiliation; Noahidism as 'decapitation through humiliation'; Nicholas de Cusa's concept of "learned ignorance" and the relations with kenotic theology, personalism and kabbalah. Will Tucker traces the humiliation ritual as a heterodox form of esoteric mystagogy to condition the intellect and will towards "divine nothingness."

Mr Tucker's substack: https://analogia.substack.com/

The Analogia Entis channel: https://www.youtube.com/@analogiaentis

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The recording of a talk I gave in London for a study day on the institution of the Feast of Christ the King by Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925).

It is an extended elaboration of the essay advocating a positive vision and strategy for the laity in realising the Kingship of Christ over societies today.

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Pope Leo XIII taught: "It is a most sacred law of nature that a father should provide food and all necessaries for those whom he has begotten... by the ownership of productive property, which he can transmit to his children by inheritance."

In the first of a two-part episode on property and inheritance law, I draw from the writings of Côme de Prévigny, Frédéric le Play, Oscar Mendez and modern studies to examine the importance of primogeniture inheritance for the conservation and flourishing of family patrimony and its corollary: diffuse economic and political power.

I compare the case studies of historic inheritance regimes in France, the United States of America and England to extract the perennial Catholic economic principles that we may apply today and in the future. 

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'Philip II' is an historical work written by William Thomas Walsh, published by TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1987. All rights acknowledged.

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"Philip II by William Thomas Walsh is one of the crucial books for Catholics today and for all who would understand how our world came to its present state. For this monumental life-story, Walsh's greatest book, is far more than the definitive biography of the man considered to have been Europe's most powerful king ever. It is besides a virtual panorama of Christendom in the 16th century, the pivotal century that gave birth to Protestantism - which out of the 15 major heresies that have confronted the Catholic Church, was the first which the Church did not overcome. Not only is Spanish history covered in this fast-paced biographical masterpiece, but also the interrelated events simultaneously developing in England, France and Europe in general, so that the reader comes away with a global view of an entire era and of the forces which the Catholics of that day were facing as the Protestant Revolt, with its seductive rebellion against all authority, both human and divine, was carried from country to country, purposefully destroying the Ancient Faith and the Christian social fabric."

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'Philip II' is an historical work written by William Thomas Walsh, published by TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1987. All rights acknowledged.

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