Beauteous Truth: On Literature, Culture, & Faith

By |2024-05-07T14:37:27-05:00May 7th, 2024|Categories: Beauty, Catholicism, Christianity, G.K. Chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien, Joseph Pearce, Timeless Essays, Truth|

Literature is so effective in giving us a foundational understanding of ourselves, our neighbours, and our shared human existence throughout history because it shows us the way of virtue, the truth of reason, and the beauty of the cosmos and our place within it. Jared Zimmerer interviews Joseph Pearce. Jared Zimmerer: Throughout your collection of [...]

Who Was William Shakespeare & Does It Matter?

By |2024-05-02T14:13:37-05:00May 2nd, 2024|Categories: Joseph Pearce, Literature, Senior Contributors, William Shakespeare|

The scholarly debate over Shakespeare and his family, especially with respect to their Catholic sympathies, remains a hot topic. For those who don’t share these sympathies, or are positively antagonistic to them, the evidence that Shakespeare was a believing Catholic is unwelcome and, for some, simply unacceptable. The recent claim by Matthew Steggle, writing in [...]

Great Works of the Catholic Revival

By |2024-05-01T17:09:29-05:00May 1st, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Evelyn Waugh, G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, J.R.R. Tolkien, Joseph Pearce, Literature, Sainthood, StAR|

The legacy of great Catholic literature that England had bestowed upon civilization might have seemed to have died out by the end of the eighteenth century, but the apparent death of Catholicism was merely the prelude for a spectacular resurrection. It is often forgotten that the Catholic presence in England is older than England itself. [...]

Whodunnit? The Strange Case of Shakespeare’s Will

By |2024-04-23T17:13:13-05:00April 23rd, 2024|Categories: Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, William Shakespeare|

William Shakespeare is a mystery. What we know about the facts of his life is outweighed by what we don’t know. His life can be likened metaphorically to a jigsaw puzzle in which most of the pieces are missing. It is no wonder, therefore, that he continues to puzzle historians. One of the most puzzling [...]

A New College Is Born

By |2024-04-18T13:02:18-05:00April 17th, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Education, Joseph Pearce, Liberal Arts, Senior Contributors|

Rosary College is the first-ever college in South Carolina to offer a tradition-oriented education in the Catholic tradition. Apart from offering affordable college-level education for local students, the college will also offer its courses online, enabling students to enroll from anywhere in the world. Father Dwight Longenecker needs no introduction to readers of The Imaginative [...]

The Good, the Bad, & the Beautiful

By |2024-04-10T18:21:03-05:00April 10th, 2024|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Dwight Longenecker, History, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors|

Joseph Pearce's "The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful" is a perfect textbook for history classes in Catholic schools, homeschoolers, and anyone concerned to transmit an overview of Catholic history and culture. The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: History in Three Dimensions, by Joseph Pearce (300 pages, Ignatius Press, 2023) The best way to [...]

Scientists See the Light

By |2024-04-08T14:02:07-05:00April 8th, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Joseph Pearce, Religion, Science, Senior Contributors|

The extreme improbability of the “very perfectly precise” conditions needed for a sustainable universe capable of sustaining life within it was calculated by Oxford mathematician-physicist Roger Penrose in 1989. The number that Penrose calculated with respect to the conditions necessary for sustaining life is astronomical. At the beginning of his book, Science at the Doorstep [...]

Music As If Beauty Mattered: Composer Michael Kurek in Conversation

By |2024-03-13T19:23:52-05:00March 13th, 2024|Categories: Beauty, Joseph Pearce, Music, Senior Contributors|

Fifty years ago, when E. F. Schumacher published his international bestseller, Small is Beautiful, he gave it the subtitle “economics as if people mattered”. In 2006, when I published my own book, Small is Still Beautiful, I gave it the subtitle “economics as if families mattered”. In 1977, when Christopher Derrick published his book, Escape [...]

If Music Be the Food of Love: A Conversation With Composer Michael Kurek

By |2024-03-13T18:31:40-05:00March 6th, 2024|Categories: Joseph Pearce, Music, Senior Contributors|

Apart from Arvo Pärt, the grand old man of contemporary classical music, whose work I have admired greatly ever since I first heard Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten many years ago, Michael Kurek is the living composer whose works I especially enjoy. An American residing in Nashville, Dr. Kurek has almost single-handedly flown the flag [...]

Surveying the Landscape of History

By |2024-02-29T05:38:53-06:00February 28th, 2024|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Christianity, History, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors|

Those who are blinded by materialism cannot see the landscape of history. They see systems instead of people, and empowerment instead of virtue. They can’t see the beautiful because they refuse to raise their eyes to heaven. The past is present whether we like it or not or know it or not. The past is [...]

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