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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 [...]
He frequently gets a bit of bad press, but I always felt that I get St. Thomas. That rather negative appendage, Doubting Thomas, makes him sound petulant, stubborn. But who was it he was doubting in the moment? Not his Lord, but his fellow disciples—other people. And can we blame him? That which was dearer to him than [...]
It was the first full day of summer, a balmy Monday morning as more than a hundred people waited outside the county courthouse in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Their ages ranged from early twenties to well past retirement. Silently they stood there until the doors opened at 8:30 and deputy sheriffs guided them through security screening. Then it [...]
This week in the Inner Sanctum of Joseph Pearce’s personal website, Joseph puzzles over Shakespeare’s collaboration with a fellow playwright who hated and hunted priests. He also muses with the poet Wordsworth on the Perfect Woman and visits the Tuscan city of Lucca with Hilaire Belloc, recalling his own honeymoon in the same city…. https://jpearce.co/shakespeare-and-the-priest-hating-playwright/
In the mid-1950s, John Hancock insurance ran full-page magazine advertisements featuring famous people from history. In 1955 one of those ads focused on Francis Parkman. “He brightened the dim record of our past,” the ad began but conceded that “a lot of people today don’t know about” him, although they ought to, since “there is so [...]
As George F. Will turns eighty, it bears noting that just as Whig writers in the eighteenth century learned their craft by studying the essays of Joseph Addison, so, too, have American conservative writers honed their writing skills by reading the columns of George Will. While Will’s authorial elegance and insight have been influences on many [...]
I just encountered a young man doing his morning run and we stopped and chatted. I live near a university, so I wasn’t surprised he was a student; a grad student getting his second undergraduate along with a master’s in music and music therapy—and a master’s from the “University of Theology and Spirituality” whatever that is. [...]
Beginning in the 1980s, apparently starting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and then extending to dozens of cities, appeared unusual graffiti, Toynbee Tiles. A kind of mosaic, these so-called tiles tend to be bits of linoleum embedded in the asphalt of a city street. While the creator of the tiles remains unknown, the text of each tile always [...]