Recovering a Christian image of manhood,

Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers is next.

Hello and welcome to Focus,

the Catholic Answers Podcast for living,

understanding and defending your Catholic faith.

I'm Sy Kelly at your host and today we talk a little bit about defending

a Christian image of manhood.

I think you would agree with me that all over the Christian world

there seems to be a growing consensus that manhood is in crisis.

You certainly hear Catholic speakers and podcasters

talking about the need to recover a more robust manliness

in the face of what the culture is telling us about manhood.

It's hard to argue with any of this,

but it's also true that many of the loudest

and in some cases most popular voices

promoting a kind of recovery of manhood

are doing so in ways that really are not very helpful.

I could probably give you five or six names

of Catholic speakers or podcasters right now

off the top of my head who are promoting ideas of manliness

by essentially promoting themselves as more manly than others

by calling other people names,

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