Spirit & Life

Weekly column from HLI President Fr. Shenan J. Boquet

Learning to Be Men: Why Young Men Need Present Fathers

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | August 17, 2026 |

Earlier this month, the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) published a survey of two thousand American men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine. The results are a resounding affirmation of the problem I began to delineate in last week’s column, i.e. a crisis of masculinity that is pushing men into the orbit of toxic,…

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Andrew Tate and the Crisis of Masculinity: What Boys Actually Need

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet | August 10, 2026 |

A few weeks ago, in a courtroom near Seattle, a young woman stood up and described what life was like inside what local media have dubbed the “OnlyFans House.” “I watched manipulation become normal,” she told the court. “I watched violence become normal. I watched controlling women become normal.” And then: “I will never forget…

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