Exposing the False Narrative of Fake History

By |2024-09-13T14:24:35-05:00September 13th, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, England, Joseph Pearce, Protestant Reformation, Senior Contributors, Unsung Heroes of Christendom|

One of the most egregious examples of the dissemination of the false narrative of fake history is the bias and inaccuracy of the “official” history of England since the time of the Reformation. William Cobbett We live in an age when fake news is rampant. Yet fake news is nothing new. It’s been [...]

Islam and Western Civilization

By |2024-09-10T17:12:49-05:00September 10th, 2024|Categories: Christianity, Islam, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays|

The seven pillars of Western Civilization are the edifying edifices which tower over the landscape of the centuries as a fortress of faith and a beacon of reason. Islam has served throughout the centuries as an outside force which has repeatedly laid siege to the fortress, seeking its overthrow. Several weeks ago I wrote an [...]

Shakespeare and Classical Education

By |2024-09-09T17:26:53-05:00September 9th, 2024|Categories: Classical Education, Joseph Pearce, Literature, Senior Contributors, William Shakespeare|

Those who fail to share my profound admiration for William Shakespeare will no doubt query my apparent obsession with one author to the exclusion of all others, as I propose an ideal classical curriculum for the freshman and sophomore years of high school. In last week’s essay I presented the texts that I would include [...]

A Holy Warrior

By |2024-09-05T18:02:22-05:00September 5th, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, History, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, Unsung Heroes of Christendom|

Pelagius of Asturias was a warrior of Christendom who is revered by the Catholics of Spain but is largely unknown to the wider world. One of the most enchanting places in the whole of Christendom is Covadonga in the Asturias region of northern Spain. The visitor, on approaching it for the first time, could easily imagine [...]

Classical Education and Great Literature

By |2024-09-02T21:05:35-05:00September 2nd, 2024|Categories: Beowulf, Homer, Iliad, Joseph Pearce, Literature, Odyssey, Senior Contributors|

Here is my effort to construct a solid program of reading for a classical high school curriculum. Last month I wrote an essay for The Imaginative Conservative on “Classical Education and American Literature” in which I explained the rationale for the selection of titles by American authors for a high school literature curriculum. One of [...]

Another Flower of Scotland

By |2024-08-21T17:08:07-05:00August 21st, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Europe, History, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, Unsung Heroes of Christendom|

By the time of his death, Fr. Allan MacDonald was lauded throughout Scotland for his pioneering scholarship in the field of Celtic studies, for his tireless political campaigning to alleviate the plight of the poor, and for his poetry and translations. Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing, Onward! the sailors cry; Carry [...]

Walking With C.S. Lewis

By |2024-08-19T18:04:39-05:00August 19th, 2024|Categories: Books, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Featured, Joseph Pearce, Timeless Essays|

I have always been a keen walker, or “hiker” in the American idiom. I have ambled, rambled, scrambled or otherwise perambulated across large swathes of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland; I have roamed around Europe; and I have even ventured, since my arrival on this side of the Pond fourteen years ago, to traipse through [...]

Flower of Scotland

By |2024-08-16T14:55:41-05:00August 16th, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Europe, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, Unsung Heroes of Christendom|

In our quest for the truly unsung heroes of Scotland, we must look beyond those flowers which are in full, admirable bloom to those fading flowers which have been neglected. O flower of Scotland When will we see Your like again That fought and died for Your wee bit hill and glen…. The patriotic song “Flower [...]

Unsung Heroes From an Undersung Country

By |2024-08-07T14:58:50-05:00August 7th, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Europe, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, Unsung Heroes of Christendom|

Nations as well as people, can be unsung heroes. They can suffer and be heroic in their suffering. Poland is such a nation. Hemmed in by neighbors that have all too often been enemies—and, as often as not, conquering enemies—Poland’s whole history has been shaped by suffering. It has been besieged and attacked by the [...]

Anti-Catholic Revolution and Catholic Revival

By |2024-07-28T13:39:33-05:00July 28th, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Enlightenment, History, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, Unsung Heroes of Christendom|

The 18th century was a low point for the Church, particularly in France. But François-René de Chateaubriand would sow the seeds of the Catholic revival in France. It is hard to say which have been the lowest points in the history of the Church. The fourteenth century was pretty wretched. The papacy, exiled from Rome to [...]

Richard Wagner, the Nazis, and Christianity

By |2024-07-26T12:12:45-05:00July 25th, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Joseph Pearce, Music, Richard Wagner, StAR, Timeless Essays|

Richard Wagner’s legacy has been overshadowed, and some would say permanently marred, by the manner in which he became the poster child of Hitler’s grotesque Third Reich. Yet should we condemn his music for this reason? Nice to see your music selections. But Wagner, your favorite composer! Say it ain’t so, Joe! The above-quoted words [...]

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