Manly Catholic: Igniting Men to Light the World on Fire

James Caldwell
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Voted #1 Catholic Podcast for Men! 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. And have some laughs along the way. Because who couldn't use more laughter in their life? 

  1. 5d ago

    Ep 43 Revisited : The Power of Patriarchy & Defeating the Diabolical (Jesse Romero)

    In this revisit of one of our episodes of The Manly Catholic, James and Father Dom sit down with Catholic author, speaker, and former LA County Sheriff's deputy Jesse Romero. Jesse brings his signature "power preaching with devil-destroying theology" to expose the realities of spiritual warfare in the modern world. Jesse shares incredible, spine-chilling stories from his time working as a rookie cop in the mentally ill offenders unit at the LA County Jail, where he encountered notorious occult serial killers like Richard Ramirez. He details his own "Matrix red pill moment" when he witnessed firsthand the literal, physical inability of satanic killers to utter the words "Jesus is Lord". More information on our July 18th retreat: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/be-not-afraid-tickets-1990722085346?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios&sg=971f65d335cc9833bf189251f7767799fa6cacd230acbd302d443b330259422f51146961ef2616ab3ef4b161e3d7dba5070d12f53ad8efb154cb339fce0a9f707edfb84be6b6cc2d4a209600b0 Subscribe to our Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxrRLZNk4WqPdgcac5vuWEQ Check out our website https://www.themanlycatholic.com/ Shop our https://the-manly-catholic-store.checkoutstores.com/ Get delicious coffee from https://www.mysticmonkcoffee.com/ Download https://tanbooks.com/tan-digital-app/ to access the incredible TAN Library! Use code 'MANLYCATHOLIC' to get 50% OFF your subscription! Contact us at mailto:themanlycatholic@gmail.com

    1h 6m

  2. Jul 1

    Ep 215 - Discipleship Quads and Food as Medicine (Dcn. Greg Beasley)

    In this episode of The Manly Catholic, James sits down in the backyard of Deacon Greg Beasley, to discuss what it truly means to live a life of disciplined faith. Deacon Greg shares his fascinating backstory—from operating nuclear submarines in the Navy, to his powerful conversion to Catholicism through the Eucharist. The conversation dives deep into practical tools for spiritual and physical growth, exploring the impact of Discipleship Quads for building deep brotherhood and accountability, and the Daniel Plan, a holistic approach to treating food as medicine and honoring the body as a temple of the Holy Spirit. Tune in for a candid look at personal responsibility, daily prayer discipline, and the call to step out of the shadows and into the fight. Thank you for your prayers and support! Consider supporting the podcast on our https://buymeacoffee.com/tmc page to help grow the show to reach as many men as possible! Discipleship Quads: https://dquads.com/ The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life https://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Plan-Days-Healthier-Life/dp/0310344298 Eternize: https://myeternize.com/ Subscribe to our Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxrRLZNk4WqPdgcac5vuWEQ Check out our website https://www.themanlycatholic.com/ Shop our https://the-manly-catholic-store.checkoutstores.com/ Get delicious coffee from https://www.mysticmonkcoffee.com/ Download https://tanbooks.com/tan-digital-app/ to access the incredible TAN Library! Use code 'MANLYCATHOLIC' to get 50% OFF your subscription! Contact us at mailto:themanlycatholic@gmail.com

    1h 31m

  3. Jun 24

    Ep 214 - Your Home Is Supposed to Be a Church: Here's How to Build It with Mike DiCosola

    Most Catholic men were sacramentalized but never catechized. They went through the motions and walked away without ever being handed a vision for what their faith was supposed to look like inside their home. Mike DiCosola knows that story from the inside. He lived it. James sits down in person with Mike DiCosola, Executive Director of Paradisus Dei for one of the most practical and honest conversations about Catholic family life you will hear. Mike walks through how That Man Is You started twenty-five years ago in a single Houston parish and now runs in over 1,200 parishes worldwide. He explains why the content is almost secondary — the real fruit always comes from the small group, around the table, when men stop talking about other people and start talking about themselves. He breaks down Missionaries to the Family, a one-year formation program built on the Catechism and the Spirit of Nazareth, and what it actually looks like to make your home the domestic church it was always meant to be. Powerful Quotes: "Wherever you are in the spiritual life, Jesus Christ wants to encounter you right there and take you further. He's not asking you to be a canonized saint tomorrow. He's asking you to take one step." "A lone soldier is an easy target. That is what the Evil One wants — to isolate us so he can come at us when we have no defense." "The goal is generational change of the culture. If the only thing that survived were families gathered together to help one another live, love, and grow in faith — then we will have been a successful endeavor." 📚 References & Resources Mentioned: Paradisus Dei — https://paradisusdei.org/That Man Is You — https://paradisusdei.org/that-man-is-you/She Shall Be Called Woman — https://paradisusdei.org/she/Missionaries to the Family — https://paradisusdei.org/missionaries-to-the-family/Mysteries of the Rosary series — free at https://paradisusdei.org/mysteries-of-the-rosary/ Thank you for your prayers and support! Consider supporting the podcast on our Buy Me a Coffee page to help grow the show to reach as many men as possible! Subscribe to our YouTube page Check out our website Shop our merch store Get delicious coffee from Mystic Monk Coffee Download TAN Digital to access the incredible TAN Library! Use code 'MANLYCATHOLIC' to get 50% OFF your subscription! Contact us at themanlycatholic@gmail.com

    1h 3m

  4. Jun 19

    Ep 213 - Good News Friday: The World's Tallest Church Is Finally Completed and USA is Consecrated

    Pope Leo XIV stood inside the Sagrada Família in Barcelona on the 100th anniversary of Antoni Gaudí's death and blessed the Tower of Jesus Christ — making it the tallest Catholic church in the world at 566 feet. A church that took 144 years to build and was born from the vision of a man who died in 1926 looking like a beggar on the street after being hit by a tram on his way to daily Mass. The next day, the Pope traveled to the Canary Islands and stood at the port known as the Dock of Shame — where thousands of migrants from West Africa have died trying to cross the Atlantic. He threw a bouquet of flowers into the sea in silence for the dead and said what every human heart already knows: human dignity has no passport. On June 11th, 250 bishops of the United States knelt in Orlando and formally consecrated this nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The relics of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, the French nun to whom Jesus first revealed devotion to his Sacred Heart, were flown from Paris specifically to be in that room. Corpus Christi Sunday sent Catholics into the streets around the world carrying Jesus through neighborhoods, past flower-draped balconies, continuing a tradition that is now 800 years old. And June 13th was the feast of Saint Anthony of Padua; the patron of lost things, yes, but more importantly, the patron of lost souls. He has been finding them for 800 years. He is not done. If you know someone who has walked away from the faith, pray to Saint Anthony for them today. 📚 Further Reading: Sagrada Família blessing — Pope Leo XIV, June 10th, 2026 | Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.vaPope at the Dock of Shame, Canary Islands | Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.vaU.S. Bishops Consecration to the Sacred Heart, June 11th, 2026 | USCCB https://www.usccb.orgNational Eucharistic Pilgrimage 2026 — route and updates https://www.eucharisticpilgrimage.orgCalled by Name initiative — Diocese of Nottingham, England https://www.nottinghamdiocese.org.ukMen's Silent Retreat — July 18th, Franciscan Life Process Center, Lowell, MI Link in show notes — contact themanlycatholic@gmail.com Consider supporting the podcast on our Buy Me a Coffee page to help grow the show to reach as many men as possible! Subscribe to our YouTube page Check out our website Get delicious coffee from Mystic Monk Coffee Download TAN Digital to access the incredible TAN Library! Use code 'MANLYCATHOLIC' to get 50% OFF your subscription!

    14 min

  5. Jun 17

    Ep 212 - The Father Who Stays Is the Most Radical Man in the Room - A Father's Day Episode

    Brothers, this episode is for you. James sits down and delivers a Father's Day message that every Catholic father needs to hear. He starts with the hard truth: America is in a fatherlessness catastrophe. One in four children grows up without their biological father. The research on what that produces is not subtle. And some of the most dangerous absences are not the men who walked out the front door — but the men who are still sitting at the dinner table and have already checked out. But this episode is not about guilt. It is about weight and dignity and the sacred office that most men are carrying without ever being told what it actually is. James unpacks why Jesus calls God Father. He walks through Saint Joseph: a man who never speaks a single word in Scripture, who just acts, stays, protects, and obeys. He talks about the thanklessness of faithful fatherhood and how staying anyway is one of the most countercultural things a man can do in 2026. And then he gets personal. The exhaustion. The moments of checking out. The weight of running a home, working full time, homeschooling, podcasting, and still trying to show up. This one is honest. 🎯 Key Takeaway — Apply This Now: Pick one small, concrete act of presence this week and execute it without announcement. Pray with your kids tonight before bed. Put the phone face down at dinner. Write your wife a note she will find tomorrow morning. Take your son somewhere — just the two of you — before the week is out. You do not need a grand gesture. You need to show up one more time. That is enough. 📚 References & Resources Mentioned: Into the Breach — Bishop Thomas Olmsted; pastoral letter on Catholic manhood Available free at: https://intothebreach.netKnights of Columbus — Into the Breach video series; episode on fatherhood referenced https://www.kofc.org/intothebreachFr. Donald Calloway, MIC — Consecration to Saint Joseph; referenced on the growth of Josephology Available at: https://www.consecrationtostjoseph.org Thank you for your prayers and support! Consider supporting the podcast on our Buy Me a Coffee page to help grow the show to reach as many men as possible! Subscribe to our YouTube page Check out our website Shop our merch store Get delicious coffee from Mystic Monk Coffee Download TAN Digital to access the incredible TAN Library! Use code 'MANLYCATHOLIC' to get 50% OFF your subscription! Contact us at themanlycatholic@gmail.com

    18 min

  6. Jun 12

    Ep 211 - Good News Friday: Jesus Walks Past the White House

    One thousand Catholics carried Jesus through the streets of Washington D.C. on the feast of Corpus Christi. Six hundred thousand young people flooded the streets of Madrid on the first evening of the Pope's apostolic visit to Spain. A diocese in North Carolina just ordained 10 priests in a single day, the largest ordination class in its 54-year history, and the faithful lined up around the block for hours just to receive a first blessing from newly anointed hands. The bishops of the United States, for the first time in 250 years, consecrated this nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. And a movement that started in a shanty town in Madrid with one man, a Bible, and a guitar just celebrated 60 years of setting the world on fire across 138 countries. Five stories. One Church. Here is your good news. 📚 References & Resources Mentioned: National Eucharistic Pilgrimage 2026 — launched Pentecost Sunday, St. Augustine, FL; concludes Philadelphia, July 4th https://www.eucharisticpilgrimage.orgCatholic Information Center, Washington D.C. — host of the Corpus Christi procession, June 6th, 2026 https://www.cicdc.orgUSCCB Consecration of the United States to the Sacred Heart of Jesus — June 11th, 2026, Orlando, FL; 215 of 273 active bishops voted in favor; livestreamed on USCCB YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@usccb https://www.usccb.orgWorks of Mercy 📌 Show Notes: Thank you for your prayers and support! Consider supporting the podcast on our Buy Me a Coffee page to help grow the show to reach as many men as possible! Subscribe to our YouTube page! Check out our website! Shop our merch store! Get delicious coffee from Mystic Monk Coffee! Download TAN Digital to access the incredible TAN Library! Use code 'MANLYCATHOLIC' to get 50% OFF your subscription! Contact us at themanlycatholic@gmail.com

    15 min

  7. Jun 10

    Ep 210 - They Lied to You About the Middle Ages...And It's By Design with Author Jeb Smith

    Everything you were taught about the Middle Ages is wrong. The kings were tyrants. The peasants were starving. The feudal system was oppressive. Democracy is the greatest system ever devised. You learned it in school, you saw it in movies, and you never questioned it. Jeb Smith did...and what he found will make you rethink everything. James sits down with author and historian Jeb Smith to break open his book Missing Monarchy: Correcting Misconceptions about the Middle Ages, Medieval Kingship, Democracy, and Liberty. Jeb walks through what a true medieval king actually was, why medieval warfare was less deadly than any modern conflict, why peasants worked fewer hours and paid less in taxes than the average American today, what Robin Hood actually stood for, and why compulsory public education was designed from the start to produce compliant workers. 💬 Powerful Quotes: "The last person you want in power are those who seek it. We push people to become politically active, to go out there and force their ways on everyone else — which is what democracy is. It's one big war of everyone denying each other self-government." — Jeb Smith "In America, we pass over 10,000 laws a year. That is more than the entire Middle Ages produced over hundreds of years. The government is just minuscule by comparison." — Jeb Smith 📚 References & Resources Mentioned: Missing Monarchy: Correcting Misconceptions about the Middle Ages, Medieval Kingship, Democracy, and LibertyDefending the Middle Ages: Little Known Truths about the Crusades, Inquisitions, Medieval Women, and MoreDefending Dixie's Land: What Every American Should Know About the South and the Civil WarFollow Jeb on X: @JebSmith764Jeb's website: authorjebsmith.com Thank you for your prayers and support! Consider supporting the podcast on our Buy Me a Coffee page to help grow the show to reach as many men as possible! Subscribe to our YouTube page! Check out our website! Shop our merch store Get delicious coffee from Mystic Monk Coffee Download TAN Digital to access the incredible TAN Library! Use code 'MANLYCATHOLIC' to get 50% OFF your subscription! Contact us at themanlycatholic@gmail.com

    1h 2m

  8. Jun 5

    Ep 209 - Good News Friday: The Eucharist Is Walking Up the East Coast

    The Blessed Sacrament is being carried up the entire eastern seaboard of America. The Pope is making his first trip to Spain in 15 years. Seminary numbers are climbing. And on Pentecost Sunday, the Pope asked every Catholic man the one question most of us are avoiding. Five stories. Let's get into it. 📚 References & Resources Mentioned: National Eucharistic PilgrimagePope Leo heads to SpainOrdination numbersPentecost homilyWorld Mission Sunday Men's Silent Retreat — Lowell, Michigan; Franciscan Retreat Center; Fr. Dominic giving talks; Mass, adoration, confession [Link in show notes — contact themanlycatholic@gmail.com for details] Thank you for your prayers and support! Consider supporting the podcast on our Buy Me a Coffee page to help grow the show to reach as many men as possible! Subscribe to our YouTube page! Check out our website! Shop our merch store! Get delicious coffee from Mystic Monk Coffee! Download TAN Digital to access the incredible TAN Library! Use code 'MANLYCATHOLIC' to get 50% OFF your subscription! Contact us at themanlycatholic@gmail.com

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Voted #1 Catholic Podcast for Men! 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. And have some laughs along the way. Because who couldn't use more laughter in their life? 

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