The Lost Boys and the Failure of Our Institutions, by Scott Ventureyra

Modern Western culture speaks often of inclusion, compassion, and solidarity, yet there is one group it feels remarkably free to shame and ignore: its own sons. Teenage boys and young men in the West have been told for years that they are a problem to be solved rather than a people to be formed. Schools, universities, HR departments, the media, political institutions, and even some of the Church treat them as bearers of inherited guilt, beneficiaries of privilege they cannot see, and potential threats merely because they exist as white, straight, able-bodied, Christian (even if nominally) males, all the worse if they are Catholics.

I would extend this list to just young Christian men, and even teenage boys and young men in general, but it’s hard to turn away from the fact that “whiteness” has been considered a cardinal sin amid our broken culture and institutions. The absence of fathers and mentors has only exacerbated the situation. The Church’s silence in assisting them has been deafening. They have chosen to accommodate our decadent culture instead. …

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