Michael J. Sauter

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Michael J. Sauter has lived his whole life in Western NY, in and around Rochester and the Genesee Valley. He has worked in factories and on dairy farms and in various ministries in the Catholic Church at the Abbey of the Genesee. He currently directs Catholic Campus Ministry at SUNY Geneseo. Along with his friend Michael Martin he hosts a weekly podcast, The Regeneration Podcast, which can be found on Spotify and many other podcast hosting services.

Recent Essays

Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris and the Problem of Bigness

Michael J. Sauter - August 31, 2018

In The Everlasting Man, a masterpiece of Christian apologetics, G. K. Chesterton opens Chapter 1 with something of a mocking hat tip to the...

Avoiding the Hive

Michael J. Sauter - May 1, 2017

New Directions for Catholic Social and Political Research: Humanity vs. Hyper-Modernity, Guido Preparata, (ed.) Palgrave MacMillan, 319 pages The future is notoriously uncertain but nonetheless,...

The Politics of the Pro-Life Movement

Michael J. Sauter - January 26, 2017

A few years ago I wrote something of an irenic essay on the annual, January, March for Life in Washington DC. I was in...

Patmore: Prophetic Political Pessimist (and Localist?)

Michael J. Sauter - November 3, 2016

“Nations die of softening of the brain, which, for a long time, passes for softening of the heart.” “Democracy is only a continually shifting aristocracy...

Witchcraft in Church? Against Glamorous Worship

Michael J. Sauter - May 19, 2015

Recently, our local Trappist Monastery, the Abbey of the Genesee, unveiled a renovation of the sanctuary of the Abbey church. To the shock of some...

Apocalypticism for Porchers

Michael J. Sauter - March 2, 2015

If it's your thing -- and it's certainly not everybody's thing -- it's not a bad time to be an apocalypticist. A few weeks ago,...

Three Conceptions: Laschian, Romantic, and Immaculate

Michael J. Sauter - December 22, 2014

Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home -- "Intimations of Immortality," William...

Archimedean Points, Above and Below

Michael J. Sauter - September 24, 2014

“To the famous Archimedean boast: ‘Give me whereon to stand and I will move the world.’. Rabelais answers: ‘I move with my ship; and...

The Ailing Parson Malthus Project and the “New Sin of Pride”

Michael J. Sauter - July 31, 2014

Anyone who's had the good fortune to spend time reading Christopher Lasch might be able to identify with the specific experience of risable joy...

Vulgar Adolescent Bigness Fetishizers

Michael J. Sauter - June 12, 2014

I reflected what a Mortification it must prove to me to appear as inconsiderable in this Nation as one single Lilliputian would be among...

Mumford and Suns

Michael J. Sauter - March 13, 2014

“For a child”, I remember our priest saying a few years ago, ”the sun rises over the barn and sets on the further side...

Gravity’s Rainbow

Michael J. Sauter - November 8, 2013

If a rainbow is a symbol of hope, there's a bright 'bow in the sky' to be found in Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity. And, just...