Newly Posted in the Inner Sanctum Looking forward to Halloween, Joseph Pearce selects three suitably creepy poems by Edgar Allan Poe for the Poem of the Week podcast. The third and final part of a podcast discussion on Homer's Odyssey. Continuing our pilgrimage to Rome with Hilaire Belloc, we find the indomitable pilgrim in [...]
Give the devil enough rope and he'll hang himself. Give him enough power and he'll hang us first.... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/10/give-devil-enough-rope-joseph-pearce.html
Concluding our discussion of the Odyssey, we look at Odysseus' response to the offer of immortality, as well as other episodes from Homer's epic:
Only the inimitable Hilaire Belloc could write about the blessing of "blessings" in a way which seems suggestively like a curse - all with his tongue firmly embedded in his cheek! Join me as we continue our "path to Rome"....
This week has seen me flying to Oklahoma for a weekend with the monks at Clear Creek Abbey and "zooming" to Santiago in Chile to grapple with Hamlet - and much more in between.... Ladydale Diary St. John of Capistrano, 2020 This has been a week in which my feet have hardly seemed to touch [...]
This weeks three poems are all creepy offerings by Edgar Allan Poe to get us into the "spirit" of Halloween:
I've contributed an essay to a new book on Solzhenitsyn. The book is well worth reading. Check it out.... https://undpressnews.nd.edu/news/new-anthology-explores-alexander-solzhenitsyns-work/
Here's my discussion with Deal Hudson on my biography of Hilaire Belloc for Deal's "Church and Culture" radio show... https://avemariaradio.net/audio-archive/church-and-culture-october-17-2020-hour-2/
Exposing the arrogant imperialism of the European Union.... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/10/arrogant-imperialism-european-union-joseph-pearce.html
Celebrating the first anniversary of the canonization of St. John Henry Newman: https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/10/praise-newman-anniversary-canonization-jan-franczak-joseph-pearce.html
