The Catholic Current LTACL: Now Is the Time of Monsters (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.)
Mar 11, 2026
A vivid conversation about confronting modern monsters and the devils that corrupt society. Historical tyrants and 20th-century horrors are revisited. A new many-headed oligarchy is compared to a hydra that threatens the Church. Mythic imagery and calls for united, strategic resistance frame the Church as a battleship ready for spiritual combat.
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What Makes A Tyrant Recognizable
- Tyrants share wealth, power, selfishness, and unaccountability, which explains why people both flatter and fear them.
- Fr. Robert McTeigue cites 20th-century examples like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao to show classic tyrants seek domination and destruction of opponents.
Modern Hydra Of Oligarchs And Plutocrats
- A new monster resembles the Hydra: many-headed, faceless, global networks of oligarchs and plutocrats.
- Fr. Robert McTeigue argues these groups are rich, powerful, unaccountable, and hostile to Christ and his church.
Hydra Story Illustrates Multiplying Threats
- Fr. Robert McTeigue uses the Hydra myth where cutting a head makes two grow back to illustrate resilient, multiplying threats.
- He recounts Hercules needing Iolus to cauterize wounds to stop regrowth as a teamwork example.