May/June Issue - Tolkien Sample Content from Our Latest Issue May/June Table of Contents Sample Article “Deep Roots are Not Reached by the Frost”: Tolkien and the Welsh Language — Stephen Brady J. R. R. Tolkien was intensely conscious that he was English, indeed West Mercian. His legendarium, of which The Lord of the Rings is [...]
March/April Issue - Lenten Illuminations: The Light of the Cross Sample Content from Our Latest Issue March/April Table of Contents Sample Article Woman of Israel: Authentic Femininity at the Foot of the Cross — Sr. Joseph Andrew Bogdanowicz, OP In 1939, shortly before the Nazi invasion of Poland that would spark the Second World War, Sr. [...]
Joseph Pearce in conversation with a former IRA prisoner with whom he would have been a mortal enemy in the dark days when both of them supported rival terrorist groups in Northern Ireland.... https://jpearce.co/in-conversation-with-my-former-enemy/
Join Joseph Pearce for a new five-week course which goes behind and beyond The Lord of the Rings.... https://jpearce.co/behind-beyond-the-lord-of-the-rings/
The video of two talks given by Joseph Pearce at a conference in Kentucky last week are now available for watching online: https://jpearce.co/chesterton-literature-suffering-and-happiness/
Parents of students of high school age might want to enroll them in an online course that Joseph Pearce is teaching this September and October on Hilaire Belloc's classic work, The Path to Rome. Please spread the word. The link to the course can be found here: https://jpearce.co/join-me-on-the-path-to-rome/
The purgatorial quest of a knight of the roundtable.... https://jpearce.co/sir-gawain-the-green-knight-in-a-nutshell/
An interview with Joseph Pearce about a great literary convert.... https://jpearce.co/revisiting-a-great-and-neglected-novelist/
Joseph Pearce recently gave an interview for the blog of a Catholic homeschooling mother who wanted advice on how to teach Shakespeare…. https://jpearce.co/teaching-shakespeare/
The reason for Walsingham’s importance is its association with the Marian apparitions to a pious English noblewoman in 1061. By the middle of the fourteenth century, people considered England to be “Our Lady’s dowry” and that she was, in some special sense, the protectress of the English people…. https://jpearce.co/the-other-queen-of-england-2/
Though known to posterity as a wit, a controversialist, and a Christian apologist, G.K. Chesterton considered himself primarily to be merely a “jolly journalist” and it was through the writing of essays for newspapers and magazines that he made both his reputation and his living…. https://jpearce.co/the-jolly-journalist/
Guilt has become a term for psychological or emotional disorder rather than what it actually is, which is responsibility for one’s acts, decisions, choices. As a neurosis, it allows you to be the hero of some emotional melodrama in which you are plagued by feelings of guilt and must go on some heroic quest to redeem [...]