Knight of Malta and Shield of Europe

By |2024-10-27T20:50:27-05:00October 27th, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, History, Islam, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, Unsung Heroes of Christendom|

There was a time, a far healthier time, when the heroism of those who defended Malta from the Islamic onslaught was lauded by the whole Christian world. Jean Parisot de Valette All saints are heroes, but not all heroes are saints. There are some who have made great sacrifices for Christendom while not [...]

Crimes Against the Humanities: The Tragedy of Modernity

By |2024-10-24T18:04:56-05:00October 24th, 2024|Categories: Christianity, Culture, Evelyn Waugh, G.K. Chesterton, History, Humanities, Joseph Pearce, Literature, T.S. Eliot, Timeless Essays|

One of the most heinous crimes against humanity that modernity has perpetrated is its war on the humanities. And let’s not forget that the humanities are thus called because they teach us about our own humanity. A failure to appreciate the humanities must inevitably lead to the dehumanizing of culture and a disastrous loss of [...]

Liturgy and Literature in Early Modern England

By |2024-10-28T17:47:23-05:00October 21st, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, England, Joseph Pearce, Literature, Senior Contributors, William Shakespeare|

Can we fail to see the significance of Hamlet’s last words, “the rest is silence,” uttered immediately before Horatio’s prayer from the Requiem Mass? Since "requiem" means “rest” in Latin, can we avoid the suspicion that Shakespeare is alluding to the “something rotten” in the state of England which has silenced the Requiem Mass and [...]

Hidden Pearls of Great Price

By |2024-10-17T17:04:51-05:00October 17th, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Joseph Pearce, Sainthood, Senior Contributors, Unsung Heroes of Christendom|

Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie ;;;fot. The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales were canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970. Although they laid down their lives for the Faith over a period of almost 150 years, the first being executed under Henry VIII in 1535 and the last under Charles II in 1679, very [...]

Liturgy and Literature in the Middle Ages

By |2024-10-28T12:16:01-05:00October 14th, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, History, Joseph Pearce, Literature, Senior Contributors|

What is true of architecture, art, and music is equally true of literature. Throughout the history of Christendom, great literature has paid homage to sacred liturgy and the sacraments. Author's Note: On the evening of Wednesday, September 25 I was honoured to give the keynote address at the opening of the annual conference of the [...]

Small Beer: Raising a Glass for Freedom

By |2024-10-10T17:49:00-05:00October 10th, 2024|Categories: Conservatism, Culture, Distributism, Economics, Free Markets, Freedom, Joseph Pearce, Timeless Essays|

Distributism is the only practical solution to the problem of rampant corporatism and the globalism which is its inevitable consequence. Next time we raise a glass of craft-brewed ale, we should not merely enjoy its flavor, we should also raise a toast to the political and economic freedom that it represents. Some time ago I [...]

Physicians for Life

By |2024-10-10T17:54:14-05:00October 9th, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, Unsung Heroes of Christendom|

When doctors have become dealers in death, we need to sing the praises of those noble physicians who have taken a courageous stand for the culture of life. Perhaps there is no better test of the health of a culture than the way that it treats its children. The Canaanites sacrificed their own infants to Moloch; [...]

The Legacy of St. John Henry Newman

By |2024-10-09T06:54:05-05:00October 9th, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Christendom, England, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, St. John Henry Newman, Timeless Essays|

Newman’s conversion in 1845, sixteen years after Catholic Emancipation and five years before the re-establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in England, heralded the birth of a Revival which would see the resurrection of the Faith in the English-speaking world. In September 2010, I was honoured to be invited to serve as an official commentator on [...]

Not Facts First, Truth First

By |2024-10-07T18:32:08-05:00October 7th, 2024|Categories: Christianity, Joseph Pearce, Literature, Senior Contributors, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas|

Literature is important because it takes us beyond the facts to the truth. It shows us who we are as human beings and as human persons. We could go even further by insisting that literature is not merely important but necessary. Without literature or, more specifically, without the ability to see literarily, we will be [...]

Unheeded Wisdom in the Economic Wasteland

By |2024-10-02T13:39:43-05:00October 2nd, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Economic History, Economics, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, Unsung Heroes of Christendom, Wilhelm Roepke|

Wilhelm Röpke developed what was called “humane economics,” which placed the dignity of the human person at the core of economic thought, theory, and practice. Wilhelm Röpke In August 1938, as the world teetered on the brink of a second World War, only twenty years after the ending of the previous global conflagration, a [...]

The Secret Seven Poets Everyone Should Know

By |2024-10-02T08:52:00-05:00September 26th, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, Joseph Pearce, Poetry, Senior Contributors, Unsung Heroes of Christendom|

Who are the "Secret Seven" poets who have been sadly forgotten and unjustly neglected, all but one of whom were converts to Catholicism and all of whom everyone should know? It is not often that the name of Enid Blyton, the bestselling children’s author, is mentioned in the same breath or the same sentence as literary [...]

Discovering a Classic

By |2024-09-25T09:50:16-05:00September 25th, 2024|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Christianity, Joseph Pearce, Literature, Senior Contributors|

It’s not often that one experiences the exhilarating shock and overwhelming satisfaction of discovering a new classic. When one does, it is only right that such satisfaction and exhilaration should be shared with others. It is, therefore, without the least hesitation that I recommend Michael Kent's "The Mass of Brother Michel." The Mass of Brother [...]

Good News for a New World

By |2024-09-20T16:58:00-05:00September 20th, 2024|Categories: Catholicism, History, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, Unsung Heroes of Christendom|

Bartolomé de Las Casas is an unsung hero who wanted to convert the pagan Native Americans to Christ as well as stop the sinful aspects of the European conquest of the New World. Ever since the advent of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s myth of the “noble savage” in the eighteenth century, there has been a tendency to idealize [...]

Modernity and Classical Education

By |2024-09-18T16:16:42-05:00September 18th, 2024|Categories: Classical Education, Joseph Pearce, Literature, Senior Contributors|

Concluding the quest for the ideal classical literature curriculum, we find ourselves entering the senior year and, simultaneously, entering the period of modernity. The freshmen had been immersed in pre-Christian Greece and Rome, the sophomores in the Christian Middle Ages, and the juniors in the early modern period with William Shakespeare. Now, as students enter [...]

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