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5 days ago | 
ncregister.com | Joseph Pearce
From saints and scholars to fearless reformers, these popes didn’t just shape Church history — they shaped my life of faith. Sts. Augustine and Gregory are depicted in "Non Angli sed Angeli si Christiani," a glass mosaic in the Chapel of St Gregory and St Augustine, Westminster Cathedral, London.
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5 days ago | 
theimaginativeconservative.org | Joseph Pearce |Robert Lazu Kmita
Each of us needs to be living courageously in goodness, truth and beauty, remembering at all times that sanity and sanctity are ultimately synonymous. With respect to literature, we need to preserve and promote the legacy of Christendom, of Christian Civilization, by promoting the reading and teaching of the Great Books. Robert Lazu Kmita: Dear Joseph Pearce, our first interview appeared twenty years ago — on April 11, 2005. It is unbelievable how many years have passed, isn’t it?
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1 week ago | 
crisismagazine.com | Joseph Pearce
[Editor’s Note: This is the thirty-ninth in a multi-part series on the unsung heroes of Christendom.]Cortes was born in Spain in 1809, a descendant of the conquistador Hernán Cortes. Having flirted with the ideas of the Enlightenment, he became increasingly critical of the liberal political ideas that were sweeping across Europe in the wake of the secularist tyranny of the French Revolution.
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1 week ago | 
theimaginativeconservative.org | Joseph Pearce
If pride might be said to be the making of God in our own image, a lesser form of pride is the making of our gods, our idols, into our own image. This latter form of pride, what might be called pride in the lower key, is made manifest in the multifarious ways in which idolaters turn their idols into ideals of their own contrivance. Nowhere is this more evident than in the case of William Shakespeare.
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1 week ago | 
ncregister.com | Joseph Pearce
Are we economic units, clever animals or eternal pilgrims? Our answer shapes not just our lives, but our eternal destiny. Willem van der Vliet, “A Scholar in His Study With Masks,” 1627 (photo: Willem Willemsz.
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1 week ago | 
ewtn.co.uk | Joseph Pearce
Are we economic units, clever animals or eternal pilgrims? Our answer shapes not just our lives, but our eternal destiny. , May 28, 2025 – National Catholic RegisterWhere does one begin when one is asked to speak to a group of high school seniors on the topic of “answering the call to the fullness of life?”Does one offer practical advice, based on one’s own knowledge and experience of the best colleges or universities?
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1 week ago | 
theimaginativeconservative.org | Joseph Pearce
The 20th Century is marked by the loss of voices cut short in mid-song by war. There have been so many dark centuries in the history of Christendom that one hesitates to call any particular century the darkest of all. Some have been as dark as the 20th century, but none have been as deadly. In terms of the sheer body count, the 20th century, with its wars of irreligion and its access to industrialized weapons of mass destruction, is the most murderous in human history.
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2 weeks ago | 
theimaginativeconservative.org | Joseph Pearce
I’ve recently returned from my first-ever visit to Australia. In its wake, I am basking in the afterglow of the experience, as well as enduring the jetlag of its aftermath. The purpose of the visit was a speaking tour to promote the need for a restoration of classical education.
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3 weeks ago | 
crisismagazine.com | Joseph Pearce
Editor’s Note: This is the thirty-eighth in a multi-part series on the unsung heroes of Christendom. There have been so many dark centuries in the history of Christendom that one hesitates to call any particular century the darkest of all. Some have been as dark as the 20th century, but none have been as deadly. In terms of the sheer body count, the 20th century, with its wars of irreligion and its access to industrialized weapons of mass destruction, is the most murderous in human history.
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3 weeks ago | 
theimaginativeconservative.org | Joseph Pearce
Franz Jägerstätter and Fr. Gabriel Gay are two lesser-known victims of the Nazis. May their prayers deliver Europe from the wolves of secularism and restore the European nations to the Faith which forged them. In the previous essay in this series, we honored Blessed Otto Neururer, the first priest to be executed by the Nazis. We also acknowledged those better-known victims of the Third Reich’s anti-Christian pogrom, St. Maximilian Kolbe and St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein).
