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“We lost that one. We have to win the next one.” Netanyahu’s line about Rome lands hard, and we follow the thread wherever it leads: from Jewish eschatology that equates Edom with Rome to the Church Fathers who saw a restrainer holding back Antichrist in the legacy of the Roman Empire. When “new Rome” starts sounding like the United States, the questions get sharper. Is America a restraining force—or just raw empire without baptism? And what happens when a humbled Church still mysteriously protects the deposit of faith?

We walk through the slow erosion of Romanitas—from the Protestant revolt to the Enlightenment, revolutions, the end of the Holy Roman Empire, and the great wars—arguing that Christendom once ordered the world and now bleeds while it guards the line. That frame reframes current scandals and confusion: a timid hierarchy, noisy culture wars, and a laity tempted to despair. The call is not to romanticize the past but to persevere through the Church’s Passion, trusting grace to restrain the worst while we get serious about prayer, penance, and clarity.

A moving letter from a 27‑year‑old father becomes the heartbeat of the episode: housing costs, migration pressure, rootlessness, and a plea for real pastoral care. We talk frankly about why young men flock to voices that name their pain, and how the Church can reclaim them with hard truths, fatherly mentorship, and a credible vision of social order. We also confront the wreckage of pornography—not as a private vice but as a predator on attention, integrity, and family safety—and lay out concrete safeguards for fathers who want to fight clean.

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