The Imaginative Conservative

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.

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.

1 week ago | theimaginativeconservative.org | Regis Martin

Like Mr. Chesterton, it would never have occurred to St. Augustine to assign blame for the world’s problems to anyone other than himself. Around the turn of the last century, a prominent London newspaper called The World put the following question to its readers, offering a prize for the best possible answer: “What’s wrong with the world?” Not the newspaper, of course, whose good health the owners took for granted. But the planet, about which there was a good deal of anxious concern.

1 week ago | theimaginativeconservative.org | Andrew Willard Jones

So, is Christianity nationalist? The Church clearly thinks the nation is essential and worthy of defense, but what is it? To answer this, we must explore the historical genesis of the modern “nation” itself. John Paul II asserted with confidence that the two natural societies recognized by the Church’s social teaching are the family and the nation and that these two are bound up together.

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.