Unsung Heroes of Harvard

By |2025-06-30T08:23:28-05:00June 22nd, 2025|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Education, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, Unsung Heroes of Christendom|

Amidst the battered "Veritas" of Harvard, there are a few still heroically walking in the footsteps of their Catholic predecessors. It is ironic and risible in the extreme that the motto of Harvard University is “Veritas” because that once-illustrious institution has long since abandoned any belief in objective verity. It has ceased to seek answers [...]

A Prophet in Shining Armor

By |2025-06-15T23:01:05-05:00June 15th, 2025|Categories: Catholicism, Joseph Pearce, Philosophy, Senior Contributors, Unsung Heroes of Christendom|

"Into the tempests of the nineteenth century, Juan Donoso Cortes rode as knight-errant, prophet, and Man of the West.” Such is the picture that historian Christopher Olaf Blum paints of one of the most important thinkers of the past two hundred years. Yet the romantic image of Donoso Cortes as a latter-day Don Quixote will [...]

Literature and Faith: A Conversation

By |2025-06-02T11:08:38-05:00June 1st, 2025|Categories: Catholicism, Faith, Joseph Pearce, Literature, Senior Contributors|

Each of us needs to be living courageously in goodness, truth and beauty, remembering at all times that sanity and sanctity are ultimately synonymous. With respect to literature, we need to preserve and promote the legacy of Christendom, of Christian Civilization, by promoting the reading and teaching of the Great Books. Robert Lazu Kmita interviews [...]

A Crusade for True Education in Australia

By |2025-05-22T21:19:40-05:00May 22nd, 2025|Categories: Classical Education, Classical Learning, Education, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors|

I’ve recently returned from my first-ever visit to Australia. In its wake, I am basking in the afterglow of the experience, as well as enduring the jetlag of its aftermath. The purpose of the visit was a speaking tour to promote the need for a restoration of classical education. Its instigator and organizer was Tim [...]

A Lamb and a Shepherd Among Wolves

By |2025-05-16T09:26:12-05:00May 16th, 2025|Categories: Catholicism, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, Unsung Heroes of Christendom, World War II|

Franz Jägerstätter and Fr. Gabriel Gay are two lesser-known victims of the Nazis. May their prayers deliver Europe from the wolves of secularism and restore the European nations to the Faith which forged them. Franz Jägerstätter In the previous essay in this series, we honored Blessed Otto Neururer, the first priest to be executed [...]

Nazi Stormtroopers Versus the Soldiers of Christ

By |2025-05-09T09:04:20-05:00May 9th, 2025|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, Unsung Heroes of Christendom, World War II|

Blessed Otto Neururer would be the first priest to be martyred by the Nazis but by no means the last. Caesar, like the poor, is always with us. So is Judas. And so are the disciples of Christ. The Tyrant, the Traitor, and the Martyr. These three types of men form the very threads from [...]

The Risen Christ and Fallen Civilization

By |2025-04-20T20:28:00-05:00April 20th, 2025|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Easter, Gospel Reflection, History, Joseph Pearce, Timeless Essays|

With eyes wide open to the degradation we see all around us, we know that things are rotten in the modern world. Who can deny it? And yet there are more Christians in the world today than there have ever been in the past. The Church is not dead. Christendom has had a series of [...]

Cinderella Comes to the Shire

By |2025-04-18T10:12:16-05:00April 17th, 2025|Categories: Fiction, J.R.R. Tolkien, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors|

According to J.R.R. Tolkien, fairy stories offer recovery, escape and consolation from the sickness, confinement and hopelessness of this world of wickedness. They provide not an escape from reality but an escape to reality. It is an escape from the world of false philosophies and fake realities, rooted in Pride. I believe in fairytales. Take [...]

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