„The Catholic family has been devastated by the religious and social chaos that has followed the Second Vatican Council. Men have lost sight of their obligations as defenders of virtue and manhood has been weakened, women have been swept up in the whirlwind of feminisim and the feminine and the maternal have faded from memory, and children are being made to grow up too rapidly in a world awash in corruption. The St. Joseph Institute founded by Michal Semin will provide a seed bed for restoration, teaching what has been forgotten, encouraging the renewal of traditional familial roles and spreading authentic Catholic teaching on the family and its essential role in preserving social and religious order. The St. Joseph Institute is being created at a crucial moment and it could have no more solid foundation than the faith and thought and work of Michal Semin. I encourage you to support it.“

Dr. David Allen White
Professor of English
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, Maryland

„In the spiritual desert of the Czech Republic after the "fall of communism," a remarkable man, Michal Semin, has emerged as a leader of the movement for a Catholic restoration in Eastern Europe. Under Michal's leadership a growing number of influential Czech Catholics are rediscovering Catholic Tradition, which was seen in all its glory in the Czech Catholic counter-reformation of the early 17th century. The magnificent Catholic patrimony of this great country needs to be recovered for the good of all of Europe. Michal Semin has dedicated himself and his apostolate to that cause. With his formidable command of spoken and written English, Michal is more than capable of making the case for Tradition on the international scene. Traditionalist Catholics around the globe need to support the work of this key figure in the European traditionalist movement. We would be remiss not to do so.“

Christopher A. Ferrara
President
American Catholic Lawyers Association

„As the Director of the Roman Forum, a twenty six year old Catholic organization founded in the wake of Humanae vitae dedicated to the defense of the Roman Catholic Faith, I cannot tell you how much the work of the St. Joseph Institute is desperately needed. As the Director, also, of the Dietrich von Hildebrand Institute, a Roman Forum project founded in 1992 for the systematic teaching of Catholic History and Culture, and often feeling very much isolated in doing so, I would also enthusiastically welcome the fraternal labors of this new association. As I have already noted to Mr. Semin, I am  eager to collaborate with the St. Joseph Institute in ways that could create special ties between the Catholic community in New York City and that of the glorious Catholic cultures of Central Europe. We have recently been donated a landmark town house in Manhattan, near New York University, which we want to use to coordinate educational efforts of Catholics around the world. I am hoping that the St. Joseph Institute will be the first European group which will be able to take advanage of our new site, and help us to conduct seminars in Prague as well.“

John C. Rao, D. Phil. (Oxford)
Associate Professor of History
St. John's University
New York City

„It is with great enthusiasm that I offer my support to the St. Joseph Institute in its attempt to address the issues behind the "issues." We in the conservative and traditionalist movement have become stuck in a rut, repeating and reconsidering the same questions and offering the same solutions that have been operative for the past 25 years. The "hidden" cause of the grave evils and irrationalities of our time, a stark departure from the fundamentals of nature and supernature, has been largely overlooked or excluded from our consideration because it is too politically incorrect to mention. In fact, is not the diluted and emasculated role of the man in society the great unappreciated fact of our time. To revive the whole topic of the man's role in family and society, is to provide us with an avenue of thought that will open up the ancient well-springs of vitality and natural sanity. When the precariously balanced facade of the modern liberal system falls, it will be the natural realities of fatherhood and family, which will reveal their ancient power and strength again.“

Dr. Peter Chojnowski
Professor of Philosophy
Gonzaga University

How many times we've heard the tragic stories:  Catholic parents who may drive hours every Sunday morning to attend the Tridentine Mass, sacrifice so much to homeschool their children, say the rosary every night--and, yet, still , lose their children during the teen years or shortly thereafter to a Godless and thus wholly disordered society.   What was overlooked?
Perhaps Lot's wife could answer that question;  perhaps too many of us want to look back.  Remaining attached to the movies, music and cultural "entertainment" of the modern world, we seek to remain as attached to the mainstream as possible,  even though it is utterly dominated by an atheistic philosophy propagated by powerful interests which despise
everything the Catholic Church has ever stood for.  This cultural threat is very real, and if Catholics are going to survive this post-Christian epoch, they will sooner or later have to recognize that there is no "cavalry coming"  and that the family itself will have to prepare for all out war if it is to survive.  Starting, of course, with the father, the head of the home, Catholic families today will have to cut themselves off completely from the dominant, anti-Catholic culture; we will have to "come out from among them," as Our Lord says in St. Paul, and unite against the greatest cultural, moral and spiritual threat the Catholic family has ever faced.
Michal Semin and his group will strive to encourage families to, not only unite within their own Catholic homes, but also to unite across what is left of Christendom.  Stressing prayer and education, they hope to reinvigorate a traditional Catholic counterrevolution so that  a front might at last be formed against a global enemy. There is strength in numbers and if Catholics in Europe and the United States can work together to vigorously and practically combat the universal revolution in the Church and State, then perhaps the truth will survive until God in His good time intervenes.  The St. Joseph Institute is an important part of that effort and I endorse it 110 percent.

Michal Matt
Publisher and Editor
The Remnant