Counterfeit Masculinity: The Naturalistic Gospel of the Conciliar Farm
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.