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I have a neighbor and friend who brings me groceries during this pandemic. Today she squeezed in a grocery run between other errands, and we had a conversation when I picked up the groceries. She had to pick up grandchildren earlier, and I mentioned that she’s always having birthday parties, or celebrations of various occasions; she’s [...]
Due to the popularity of the "Thursdays with Thursday" book club on The Man Who was Thursday, which begins next week, we've decided to offer another five-week book club, which we're calling "Revisiting Brideshead" in which I'll be leading a discussion of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel, Brideshead Revisited. This will meet at 8pm on each Thursday from July [...]
Seventy-five years ago, a short novel charmed readers and became popular enough to get made two years later into a major Hollywood film. Twenty-one years after the film’s moderate success, the story became a weekly half-hour television show, lasting two years. Along the way, most people seem to have forgotten the book, by R. A. Dick [...]
Please consider joining me for an adult book club event, which we're calling "Thursdays with Thursday", in which I will be leading a discussion on five consecutive Thursdays of Chesterton's novel, The Man Who was Thursday. Follow the link and join the discussion: homeschoolconnectionsonline.com/thursdays-with-thursday-adult-book-club
A friend sent me a C.S. Lewis quote the other day and it brought that venerable gentleman to mind. When I was first converted, I simply couldn’t get enough of this man, who was probably one of the greatest Christian apologists of the twentieth century. Possibly the greatest. That was quite a long time ago, when [...]
The Conference of Catholic Bishops of England and Wales re-dedicated England as the Dowry of Mary on March 29, an act that is linked to the historical roots of the Kingdom of England and is a call to the new evangelization of a society apparently post-Christian and overly influenced by political correctness. The original consecration of [...]
Someone has asked me the following question:"Mr. Pearce do you have any articles that expand on Tolkien's anarchy quote ? 'My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).'" Here's my reply:I would refer you, first, to two essays in my book, Catholic Literary Giants: "The [...]
Saint John Paul II: A Centenary Celebration The May/June issue of the St. Austin Review is at the printer. Highlights of this issue: Barbara J. Elliott offers an overview of “John Paul II and the Spiritual Victory over Communism”. Tomasz Rowinski discusses “John Paul II and the Rediscovered Essence of Polish Identity”. Jaymie Stuart Wolfe reveals [...]