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• Catholic Communities and Localism | Jason Craig 01.07.2026 1ชม. 1นาที

  "Living without a community is like living without a soul." - Charles RumoreMr 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.To support my research and channel, and to access premium content please consider joining either my Locals or Substack (the Beletage):https://thetwocitiespodcast.locals.comhttps://substack.com/@thetwocitiespodcast?
• Americanism | American Reform 02.06.2026 2ชม.

  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/To support my research and channel, and to access premium content please consider joining either my Locals or Substack (the Beletage):https://thetwocitiespodcast.locals.comhttps://substack.com/@thetwocitiespodcast?
• Traditionalist Economics: The Just Price and Just Wages | Thomas Storck 22.05.2026 1ชม. 34นาที

  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.https://www.aroucapress.com/economicshttps://angelicopress.com/products/from-christendom-to-americanism-and-beyondTo support my research and channel, and to access premium content please consider joining either my Locals or Substack (the Beletage):https://thetwocitiespodcast.locals.comhttps://substack.com/@thetwocitiespodcast?
• The Five Stages of Grief among Catholics 07.01.2026 1ชม. 31นาที

  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.To support my research and channel, and to access premium content please consider joining either my Locals or Substack (the Beletage):https://thetwocitiespodcast.locals.comhttps://substack.com/@thetwocitiespodcast?
• INFERNO: A Journey Through Modern Hell in Search of Eternal Truth | Augustine Virgil 08.12.2025 1ชม. 41นาที

  An exclusive first interview with the author of Inferno: A Journey Through Modern Hell in Search of Eternal Truth, Augustine VirgilI 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.https://stabatmaterpress.com/products/inferno?pr_prod_strat=collection_fallback&pr_rec_id=b97929cc9&pr_rec_pid=9939468845341&pr_ref_pid=9938877972765&pr_seq=uniformWe 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.To support my research and channel, and to access premium content please consider joining either my Locals or Substack (the Beletage):https://thetwocitiespodcast.locals.comhttps://substack.com/@thetwocitiespodcast?
• Tyranny and Ritual Humiliation | Will Tucker 26.11.2025 1ชม. 27นาที

  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/@analogiaentisTo support my research and channel, and to access premium content please consider joining either my Locals or Substack (the Beletage):https://thetwocitiespodcast.locals.comhttps://substack.com/@thetwocitiespodcast?
• The Little Way of Christendom: Organic Integralism 10.11.2025 1ชม. 2นาที

  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.To support my research and channel, and to access premium content please consider joining my Locals (the Beletage):https://thetwocitiespodcast.locals.com
• Traditionalist Economics | Primogeniture and Family Patrimony 02.10.2025 57นาที

  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. To support my research and channel, and to access premium content please consider joining my Locals (the Beletage):https://thetwocitiespodcast.locals.com
• Philip II by William Thomas Walsh | 16/33 Freemasonry in the 16th century 12.07.2025 1ชม.

  'Philip II' is an historical work written by William Thomas Walsh, published by TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1987. All rights acknowledged.Back cover:"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."Modest donations are gratefully accepted to support my research costs, enable a higher frequency of broadcasts and improve production values: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=5Y9AE7F4SHHA4To support my research and channel, and to access premium content please consider joining my Locals (the Beletage):https://thetwocitiespodcast.locals.com
• Philip II by William Thomas Walsh | 15/33 Catherine de' Medici 07.07.2025 1ชม. 15นาที

  'Philip II' is an historical work written by William Thomas Walsh, published by TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1987. All rights acknowledged.Modest donations are gratefully accepted to support my research costs, enable a higher frequency of broadcasts and improve production values: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=5Y9AE7F4SHHA4To support my research and channel, and to access premium content please consider joining my Locals (the Beletage):https://thetwocitiespodcast.locals.com
• Philip II by William Thomas Walsh | 14/33 Philip's Third Marriage (1560) 20.06.2025 57นาที

  'Philip II' is an historical work written by William Thomas Walsh, published by TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1987. All rights acknowledged.Modest donations are gratefully accepted to support my research costs, enable a higher frequency of broadcasts and improve production values: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=5Y9AE7F4SHHA4To support my research and channel, and to access premium content please consider joining my Locals (the Beletage):https://thetwocitiespodcast.locals.com
• Traditionalist Economics: Sovereign Creation of the Money Supply 16.06.2025 59นาที

  In the first of a projected irregular series on Traditionalist Economics, I draw from the writings of John Lane, Pius XI and other Catholic economic thinkers to consider the first question of political economy: who is responsible for the money supply?I consider: the fundamental causes of inflation; the sovereignty of money creation; fractional reserve banking; the gold standard; the nature of our current usury money versus Medieval economic stability and leisure, before proposing some initial Catholic solutions to these essential problems.With particular thanks to John Lane for his insights.To support my research and channel, and to access premium content please consider joining my Locals (the Beletage):https://thetwocitiespodcast.locals.com
• The Little Way of Christendom - A Strategy for the Laity in Our Times 02.06.2025 22นาที

  Originally published at OnePeterFive, this two-part essay is my attempt at offering a positive vision and strategy for the laity in their mission of reconstituting a Catholic political and social order (building Christendom). I am interested in having conversations and sharing ideas with anybody who is planning, or involved in, relevant constructive projects.https://onepeterfive.com/the-little-way-of-christendom-part-1/https://onepeterfive.com/the-little-way-of-christendom-part-2/To support my research and channel, and to access premium content please consider joining my Locals (the Beletage):https://thetwocitiespodcast.locals.com
• Humani Generis Unitas (1938) - The Draft Encyclical of Pius XI on the Jewish Question and Anti-Semitism | Will Tucker 26.05.2025 1ชม. 35นาที

  Will Tucker and I discuss the 'lost' draft encyclical of Pius XI on the unity of the human race, the Jewish Question, anti-Semitism, and racism - Humani Generis Unitas.The section on the Jewish Question and anti-Semitism can be found here:https://ccjr.us/dialogika-resources/primary-texts-from-the-history-of-the-relationship/hgu1938Welcoming the clarity of the document, we examine the draft encyclical's explanation of the Church's teachings on: St Paul and fulfilment theology; the deicide charge; the enmity of the Synagogue towards the Church; the Church's condemnation of anti-Semitism and her answers to the Jewish question.Mr Tucker's substack: https://analogia.substack.com/The Analogia Entis channel: https://www.youtube.com/@analogiaentisTo support my research and channel, and to access regular premium content please consider joining my Locals (the Beletage):https://thetwocitiespodcast.locals.com
• "Quid est Veritas?": On Dante’s Inferno and the Media Dialectic | Fourth Eclogue & Will Tucker 06.05.2025 2ชม. 7นาที

  Will Tucker and Augustine (Fourth Eclogue Substack - https://goodvirgil.substack.com/) join the Two Cities podcast to discuss his satirical essay on the cacophonous contemporary media landscape.https://substack.com/home/post/p-158779067We consider: how many media figures function as Synagogue discourse gatekeepers; the debasement of public discourse; the Trump "assassination attempt"; counterfeit Satanism; the phenomena of cheap alarmism and "pornography of indignation". Whilst Augustine argues that we are saturated in mutually reinforcing layers of the liberal media spectacle, Mr Tucker analyses the Judaic meta-dialectics of the media spectacle.Mr Tucker's substack: https://analogia.substack.com/The Analogia Entis channel: https://www.youtube.com/@analogiaentisTo support my research and channel, and to access regular premium content please consider joining my Locals (the Beletage):https://thetwocitiespodcast.locals.com