November/December 2021 Issue – The Nordic Muse: Celebrating Sigrid Undset Sample Content from Our Latest Issue November/December Table of Contents Sample Article The Medieval Imagination of Sigrid Undset — Amy Fahey Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes [...]
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. [...]
An American student in his twenties asked me if I had heard of an author named Ernest Hemingway. The student had found an old Scribner’s paperback of Hemingway’s fiction and was enjoying it very much. When I told him that Ernest Hemingway was one of the most famous authors of the twentieth century and one of [...]
Joseph Pearce explains why Macbeth is the anti-Hamlet - in a nutshell... https://jpearce.co/macbeth-in-a-nutshell/
Joseph Pearce selects six of his favourite works of art and explains why he thinks so highly of them... https://jpearce.co/six-paintings-for-my-private-gallery/
At the Religion News website, https://religionnews.com/2021/11/16/in-catholic-italy-de-baptism-is-gaining-popularity/ , there’s a report of a growing number of people in Italy seeking “de-baptism,” a process by which a baptized Catholic removes the record of his baptism. According to the article, the practice is not confined to Italy, but that’s where someone has started counting; there are at least 100,000 de-baptisms so [...]
Joseph Pearce discusses his new book on EWTN with Doug Keck... https://jpearce.co/discussing-my-new-book-on-ewtn/
Catholic World Report has published an excerpt from Joseph Pearce's new book... https://jpearce.co/benedict-xvi-an-apology/
The latest in the "nutshell" series that I'm writing for Crisis Magazine... https://jpearce.co/king-lear-in-a-nutshell/
The Imaginative Conservative has published an exclusive excerpt from Joseph Pearce's new book, Benedict XVI: Defender of the Faith... https://jpearce.co/living-with-big-brother/
On the main street of the small town of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, stands a state historical marker commemorating Irving Female College, locally known simply as Irving College. Founded in 1856, it was a liberal arts college for women, and it closed in 1929, one of its buildings eventually becoming the town’s hospital. The college’s name honored Washington [...]
Joseph Pearce celebrates the spirits of the season with a handful of haunting poems... https://jpearce.co/a-haunted-handful/