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By Michael Ippolito, Crisis Magazine, March 18, 2024

Michael Ippolito is the co-founder and president of The American Postliberal. Michael graduated from the Catholic University of America with a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and minors in History and Theology. …

 

The Catholic antidote to the poison of today’s “manosphere” is St. Joseph.

Michael IppolitoWe cannot understate the current crisis facing young men in America. In the wake of the sexual and cultural revolutions, young men have been aimlessly drifting in an ever-hostile culture. Fatherlessness, pornography, video games, and drugs are just some of the problems facing men today. The men of the sexual revolution feel alone and isolated, clinging to anything that gives them a quick fix. As a young man born into a hypersexual culture, I relate to the struggles facing my generation. Men have forgotten how to be men; the results speak for themselves.

What solution are we to give to these young men? Surely, there are better answers than a 90-day get-rich-quick scheme or making your bed in the morning. In a world full of disorder and noise, the young men of America should not embrace the false prophets of masculinity. Instead, on the feast day of the foster father of Jesus, they should seek to imitate the life and work of St. Joseph.  …

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