The Two Cities Podcast

"Living without a community is like living without a soul." - Charles Rumore

Mr 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.

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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/

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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.

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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.

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An exclusive first interview with the author of Inferno: A Journey Through Modern Hell in Search of Eternal Truth, Augustine Virgil

I 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.

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We 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.

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