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5 days ago | 
theimaginativeconservative.org | Joseph Pearce
Amidst the battered “Veritas” of Harvard, there are a few still heroically walking in the footsteps of their Catholic predecessors. It is ironic and risible in the extreme that the motto of Harvard University is “Veritas” because that once-illustrious institution has long since abandoned any belief in objective verity. It has ceased to seek answers to Pilate’s question, Quid est veritas? and only asks it in the rhetorical sense that it is unanswerable.
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6 days ago | 
aleteia.org | Joseph Pearce
The great Catholic writer G. K. Chesterton had a great love for the feast of Corpus Christi which reflected his great love for the Eucharist.
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6 days ago | 
aleteia.org | Joseph Pearce
The feast of Corpus Christi is important because the sacramental Presence of Christ is the very heart of Christian civilization.
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1 week ago | 
theimaginativeconservative.org | Joseph Pearce
Hilaire Belloc’s final words of wisdom might enable us to become truly oriented, taking the right path at the right pace to the right place. How do we get to heaven? The answer, it seems, is on foot. Hilaire Belloc was a man of many talents and a man of many parts. He wrote poetry and prose; he wrote fiction and non-fiction; he wrote for children and for grown-ups.
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1 week ago | 
ncregister.com | Joseph Pearce
A new book explores how J.R.R. Tolkien’s Catholic faith — and especially the Mass — shaped his stories and sustained his soul. Book cover of ‘The High Hallow: Tolkien’s Liturgical Imagination’ (photo: Emmaus Road Publishing) Blogs June 19, 2025 It’s been 10 years since an Italian priest called for the cause for J. R. R. Tolkien’s canonization to be initiated.
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1 week ago | 
ewtn.co.uk | Joseph Pearce
A new book explores how J.R.R. Tolkien’s Catholic faith — and especially the Mass — shaped his stories and sustained his soul. , June 19, 2025 – National Catholic RegisterIt’s been 10 years since an Italian priest called for the cause for J. R. R. Tolkien’s canonization to be initiated. Back in 2015, Father Daniele Ercoli of Turin asked Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham to begin the canonization process.
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1 week ago | 
theimaginativeconservative.org | Joseph Pearce
“Into the tempests of the nineteenth century, Juan Donoso Cortes rode as knight-errant, prophet, and Man of the West.” Such is the picture that historian Christopher Olaf Blum paints of one of the most important thinkers of the past two hundred years. Yet the romantic image of Donoso Cortes as a latter-day Don Quixote will be lost on most people, especially in the English-speaking world, who will have no idea of his importance or his place as an indefatigable defender of Christendom.
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1 week ago | 
aleteia.org | Joseph Pearce
“The only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.” These memorable words by the great French Catholic writer, Léon Bloy, should always be on our minds. For those of us who are fathers, they should be on our minds especially on Father’s Day. We are all called to be saints. This is what is meant by the universal call to holiness. We are all called to heaven. This is why we are not wise men (homo sapiens) unless we are also pilgrim men (homo viator).
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1 week ago | 
aleteia.org | Kathleen Hattrup |Joseph Pearce
As Christians throughout the world celebrate the feast of the Most Holy Trinity, most will not realize that the very ground on which they walk is itself a mysterious trinity, as is the time it takes to walk on it. The very fabric of the physical world consists of two trinities: the trinity of space and the trinity of time.
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2 weeks ago | 
crisismagazine.com | Joseph Pearce
[Editor’s Note: This is the fortieth in a multi-part series on the unsung heroes of Christendom.]It is ironic and risible in the extreme that the motto of Harvard University is “Veritas” because that once-illustrious institution has long since abandoned any belief in objective verity. It has ceased to seek answers to Pilate’s question, Quid est veritas? and only asks it in the rhetorical sense that it is unanswerable.
