The National Catholic Register portal (August 10, 2026) publishes a feature by Sabrina Ferrisi extolling “Holy Family Farm” in Monticello, New York, an intentional community run by the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal (CFR) where young men trade screens for scythes in a regimen of prayer, manual labor, and the Novus Ordo service. The article frames this agrarian retreat as a remedy for a “generational problem” of softness and screen addiction, presenting it as a “school for life” fostering “masculine virtue” and “vocational discernment.” This report exposes the profound naturalism infecting the conciliar sect: a purely horizontal, therapeutic project devoid of the supernatural density of the Catholic Faith, implicitly endorsing the usurping hierarchy by naming a lamb for the antipope Leo XIV, and mistaking natural virtue for the virtus christiana which flows only from the sacra potestas of the true Church and the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary.
The Therapeutic Substitution for Supernatural Grace
The article’s anthropology is thoroughly Pelagian. Father Glenn Sudano, a founding member of the CFR, diagnoses the crisis of modern man as a lack of “grit,” “stamina,” and the ability to endure boredom. The remedy proposed is not the gratua sanans and gratua elevans conferred by valid sacraments, but a regimen of “washing dishes by hand,” “hauling sacks,” and “ironing linens.” This is the heresy of activism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When
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Holy Family Farm, Where Young Men ‘Get Dirt Under Their Nails’ and Foster Masculine Discipline (ncregister.com)
Date: 10.08.2026