Newly posted to the Inner Sanctum this week:

In the Poem of the Week podcast Joseph Pearce discusses and recites Chesterton’s pro-life anthem “By the Babe Unborn” and also, in celebration of the feast of St. Agnes, he recites Tennyson’s “The Eve of St. Agnes”.
Continuing the discussion of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Joseph discusses the similar allegorical techniques employed in Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales and The Lord of the Rings.
On our pilgrimage to Rome with Hilaire Belloc, we follow our pilgrim into the mountains of Switzerland and hear him waxing bellicose and indignant on the scourge of tourism.
In this week’s Ladydale Diary, Joseph describes the annual tree burning tradition of the Pearce family to bring the Twelve Days of Christmas to a close and compares the present plutocratic big-tech shutdown of dissident opinion with the book burning of the Nazis.

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