Here’s what is newly posted in the subscriber’s section of my personal website:
A podcast discussion focusing on my own conversion with Fr. Dwight Longenecker.
The “Poems of the Week” which I read and discuss this week are four sonnets by four very different nineteenth and twentieth century poets: Shelley, Hopkins, Roy Campbell and Charles Causley.
In the “Revisiting Old Favourites” podcast, concluding the series of some of Chesterton’s best essays, I read and discuss “Jane Austen and the General Election”.
The Ladydale Diary: Personal musings on day-to-day life with my family, seeking all that is good, true and beautiful in work, rest and play.
Please consider supporting me and my work by joining the Inner Sanctum of my website: www.jpearce.co. 

Here’s my defence of Fr. Daniel Moloney, a good priest who has just been sacrificed to the mob:
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/06/20/crucify-him-the-will-of-the-mob-and-fr-daniel-moloney/

One of my favourite shows on Catholic Radio is “Church and Culture”, hosted by the incomparable Deal Hudson. This past weekend I was honoured to be the guest on his show, discussing my biography of Chesterton:
https://avemariaradio.net/audio-archive/church-and-culture-june-13-2020-hour-2/

Here’s a link to a podcast interview that I just gave to Mark Connolly, an Irishman currently living in London, in which we discuss Chesterton, Tolkien, Lewis and the True Myth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz2DRn4O2kw

Diligence and discipline are needed to see through subtle forms of propaganda. We need to know how to sift out the facts from the fakes:
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/06/fake-fact-discovering-sources-truth-joseph-pearce.html

Here is what’s newly posted this week in the Inner Sanctum:
In the Poem of the Week podcast I discuss and read three of my favourite sonnets by Shakespeare.
Continuing our reading of some of the best of Chesterton’s essays in the Revisitng Old Favourties podcast, we focus on GKC’s celebrated essay on “Cheese”.
In the “Home is Where the Hearth Is” podcast I conclude the series on “What Every Catholic Should Know About Literature” with a discussion of Twentieth Century Literature.
This week’s Ladydale Diary continues the day-to-day life with the Pearce family, including the ongoing battle with the marauding fox, as well as updates on my current writing, research and online work.
Please consider supporting me and my work by becoming a member of the Inner Sanctum. Visit jpearce.co for further details.

This week I was interviewed by Howard Rankin, an Englishman living in the States who is a convert to the Catholic faith. Having so much in common, it’s no surprise that we had a great conversation. Here’s the link to the interview in which we discuss my conversion, the recent riots and several of my books:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/730841/episodes/4122650-how-not-to-think-about-god-redemption-and-rationality

As a way of celebrating the feast of Corpus Christi, I’ve written this essay about Chesterton’s love for this particular feast and his love for the Eucharist:
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/06/10/chesterton-and-corpus-christi/

I ask and endeavour to answer this thorny question in an essay just published by the National Catholic Register:
https://www.ncregister.com/blog/josephpearce/what-is-christendom

There’s no denying that James Joyce is an enigma. This excellent review by Mike Aquilina of the even more excellent book by Fr. Colum Power sheds more light on this murky subject than most:
https://angelusnews.com/arts-culture/james-joyce-a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-lapsed-catholic/?fbclid=IwAR3ZSJObjaBYDorIkrowIRKokSAwZ74ZLsxpH4dwqqjDXbyt4-HwLnKlMeM