EWTN’s Menezes Peddles Naturalistic “Masculinity” on Conciliar Streaming Platform
The National Catholic Register — house organ of the conciliar establishment — reports the launch of a new daily podcast, Stand Firm, Be Strong, hosted by Father Wade Menezes of the “Fathers of Mercy” on the EWTN+ streaming platform. The 200-episode series, derived from Menezes’s 2024 devotional book, targets men with five-minute doses of “spiritual and temporal” advice covering topics from “The Committed Man of God” and “Fraternity and Brotherhood” to “Eucharistic Adoration” and “Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph.” The project is explicitly framed as a response to the “crisis in today’s culture regarding authentic masculinity,” citing Dr. Tim Gray of the Augustine Institute on the etymological link between virtus and vir. Merchandise — T-shirts, travel mugs, and a “12-in-1 pocket knife” — accompanies the spiritual product. The interviewer, Joseph Pronechen, is the author of Fruits of Fatima — Century of Signs and Wonders, a work celebrating the very apparitions exposed as a Masonic psychological operation in the definitive theological critique. This enterprise is not a revival of Catholic manhood but a capitulation to the spirit of the world, a naturalistic self-help program draped in Catholic vocabulary, produced by and for the conciliar sect that occupies the Vatican.