Your Son Needs to Work Beside You w/ Fr. Chase Hilgenbrinck
Fr. Chase Hilgenbrinck was playing professional soccer in South America, far from home and praying before the Blessed Sacrament, when he heard the words “be my priest.” Now helping form young men for the priesthood, he joins Jason Craig to talk about why so many men were never taught how to be men. His answer starts with fathers.
In This Episode, We Cover:
Why Fr. Chase defines a man as someone free to say yes to God—and why he wasn’t free when the call first came
Why every young man should clean his own bathroom
The two rules Fr. Chase’s parents set for travel sports: the family would never be divided, and they would never miss Mass
Why some new pastors scrapped CCD and started teaching parents to teach their own children
Why a man looking for friends at his parish should look for brothers instead
Resources Mentioned:
Fraternus (https://fraternus.org/)
The Standard by Fraternus (https://thestandard.fraternus.org/)
Find Your Brothers:
You Need Brothers, And They Need You.
DON’T GO ALONE
Fraternus gets men out from behind their screens and shoulder to shoulder, building a Catholic culture their sons can inherit.
Find your brothers at https://fraternus.org/memberships/ (https://fraternus.org/memberships/)
Chapters:
00:00: The pro soccer player who became a priest
02:22: Hearing “be my priest” in a foreign country
10:33: Why so many priests never learned the ways of men
18:25: A father who made Saturday a workday
24:43: Travel sports and the family that won’t be divided
32:34: Teaching parents instead of running CCD
40:16: Isolated men get weird
43:09: Advice for a seventeen-year-old about his worth
46:11: Competency and the man who had never lit a match
55:30: Brothers you didn’t choose
Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios (https://saintkolbestudios.com/).
5 Nov 2026
Stop Doom Scrolling and Build Your Family’s Culture w/ James Gillick
Culture isn’t something a family buys. James Gillick, a painter and father of nine, grew up under a media pile-on after his mother took the British government to court, and his family answered by making things with their own hands. He joins Jason Craig to talk about why a family’s culture is built together and passed on, and why children are the greatest wealth a man can gather.
In This Episode, We Cover:
Why culture is something a family makes, not something it buys or watches
How Gillick’s mother took the British government to court, and what the years of press hounding that followed taught her children about power
How usury lets money grow by itself, and why debt moves in wherever culture is crushed
Why a young man starts becoming a husband and father the day he takes pride in finishing his own work
Why children are the greatest wealth a man can gather
Resources Mentioned:
Fraternus (https://fraternus.org/)
James Gillick – Artist (https://gillick-artist.com/)
James Gillick on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/gillickartist/)
The Grand Gesture: James Gillick with Sebastian Morello (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96J2RIQLvC4)
Find Your Brothers:
You Need Brothers, And They Need You.
DON’T GO ALONE
Fraternus gets men out from behind their screens and shoulder to shoulder, building a Catholic culture their sons can inherit.
Find your brothers at https://fraternus.org/memberships/ (https://fraternus.org/memberships/)
Chapters:
00:00: Meet James Gillick, painter and father of nine
04:31: A mother who took on the government
09:46: One day my descendants will own your house
18:43: Gorgill and the Gillick way of making things
19:50: Culture is something a family makes
25:32: A life with meaning is relentless
36:03: Culture as the opposite of slavery
45:31: You never regret a closed gate
53:23: Keep the Catholic Church out of the bedroom
01:03:21: Why children are the best investment a man can make
Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios (https://saintkolbestudios.com/)
29 Oct 2026
Stop Raising Your Kids to Leave Home w/ Javier Velazquez
Most people drive through a forgotten small town without a second look. Javier Velazquez, writer of the Substack Exiled Heart and founder of the consulting practice Townward, sees a deep America underneath it. He joins Jason Craig to talk about the local history developers and franchises keep plastering over, and why a man with real affection for a place may be what that place needs most.
In This Episode, We Cover:
Why small towns keep handing their story to developers and national franchises
How an outside YMCA push edged a thriving, dad-run youth sports league out of the local gyms
Why raising kids to think success means leaving kills Catholic culture
Seeing a row of pine trees as lumber versus seeing the meaning a man planted there a generation ago
Why local wealth belongs in the local town
Resources Mentioned:
Fraternus (https://fraternus.org/)
Exiled Heart by Javier Velazquez (https://exiledheart.substack.com/)
Townward (https://gotownward.com/)
Find Your Brothers:
You Need Brothers, And They Need You.
DON’T GO ALONE
Fraternus gets men out from behind their screens and shoulder to shoulder, building a Catholic culture their sons can inherit.
Find your brothers at https://fraternus.org/memberships/ (https://fraternus.org/memberships/)
Chapters:
00:00: Homeless in the house you own
05:44: The country beneath the country
08:41: The forgotten spring behind the Verizon store
15:04: A YMCA push and the dad-run rec league
20:28: Vision 2020 and what “development” really means
29:10: Raising children to leave everything that matters
35:18: Seeing a place with affection instead of use
39:38: Permission to recover what was lost
47:41: The good King Wenceslas option
54:31: Fatherhood and the fight for one small town
Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios (https://saintkolbestudios.com/)
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