What’s the meaning and purpose of my life? What is my true identity? Why were we created male and female? How do I find happiness, joy and peace? How do I find love that lasts, forever? These are the timeless questions of the human heart. Join Jack Rigert and his guests for lively insights, reading the signs of our times through the lens of Catholic Teaching and the insights of Saint John Paul ll to guide us. Saint Catherine of Siena said " Become who you are and you would set the world on…
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#754 Stolen Innocence
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” If you feel like the ground shifted under parenting in the last decade, you’re not imagining it. We walk straight into the pressure points families are facing: explicit content showing up earlier, “comprehensive sexuality education” that goes far beyond biology, and a culture that treats truth as negotiable while asking kids to define identity before…
#753 Gen Z Anxiety, GTA 6, The Frog in the Pot, and Signals Coming Up From the Heart
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Anxiety is everywhere, but what if it isn’t just a personal problem, it’s a warning light? We sit with the hard reality Gen Z is naming out loud: depression, dark thoughts, and a constant sense that something is off. Then we make a bold case that your heart might be telling the truth about the world around you, and that the fastest way to lose…
#752 The Catholic Spiritual Life Has A Map You Can Follow: A Path To Union With God
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Most of us don’t need more religious trivia. We need a clear path that shows how a man actually changes. That’s why we brought back Cooper Bohn with Mark Schmidt co-hosting with me, and went deep on one of the most practical frameworks in the Catholic tradition: the purgative, illuminative, and unitive ways. We start with the real world where guys…
#751 Young Adults Romanticize Socialism, But It Will Fail Them
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A whole generation is being handed a worldview that feels “normal” only because they grew up in it, and it’s everywhere. We’re watching the results of human pulverization in real time: confusion about truth, freedom, love and a growing romance with Socialism. Yet, Socialism and Communism have never succeeded anywhere, and they always crush the human…
#750 From Apathy To Action In An Upside-Down World! Meet Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Something feels off right now, and it’s not just policy or elections. When the culture starts calling evil good and good evil, it’s easy to spiral into doom-scrolling, cynicism, and the quiet lie that nothing we do matters. I read a viral post that captures that dread, then I push back on the trap underneath it: outrage that never turns into action…
#749 Padre Pio's American Daughter: The Story of Mary Pyle
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A billionaire-by-today’s-standards heiress walks away from New York high society, gets disinherited for becoming Catholic, and ends up in a poor mountain town because a stigmatic friar tells her to stay. That’s Mary Pyle, and her hidden life helps explain why devotion to Padre Pio spread so far, especially among American soldiers who came home…
#748 Christ Is The Light: Why A World Without The Supernatural Becomes Unnatural
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Anxiety has a way of haunting the edges of your day, even when you’re praying and trying to do everything right. We start with a simple moment that turns intense fast: a bike ride, traffic that feels too close, and a rising sense that something is off. The turning point comes when we stop treating that fear like random noise and name what it often…
#747 What If The “Random” Parts Of Your Life Aren’t Random: Tim's Claymore Witness Story
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A move for work sounds like a plain life update until the details start stacking up in ways you can’t unsee. Tim shares a real, personal testimony that begins with landing in Wheaton “randomly,” learning it’s packed with Churches and people of faith, including a strong Catholic community. From there, the story turns into a trail of moments that feel…
#746 Young Men Discerning Truth Amid Cultural Chaos w Gen Z Author John Krueger (+Bonus Panel Discussion)
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Something is shifting under the surface of American culture: Gen Z men are walking back into churches, asking blunt questions about truth, purpose, and what it means to live a good life. Recored before a live audience at St. Mary of Perpetual Help, we talk with Gen Z author John Kruger about his new book Dwelt Among Us: America’s Catholic Comeback ,…
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Your day is getting formed before you even realize it and your phone is usually the one doing the forming. We walk through a simple on-ramp to the Claymore Battle Plan that cuts through the confusion and gives you a clear starting line you can actually stick with. We break down the two key resources the Claymore Battle Plan is built around: the…
#744 How Much Power Does Satan Have? Pope Leo XIII's Terrifying Vision: The Claymore Battle For Hearts
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Gen Z men are walking back into church, and it isn’t because they found a new self-help Podcast. They’re waking up to the cost of the culture’s false promises and they’re hungry for something real: truth, mission, meaning and purpose and a Faith that restores the heart. From there, the spiritual backdrop that sets the present stage we find ourselves…