Ladydale Diary St. Peter Damian 2021 This has been a relatively uneventful week, which is something of a blessing. With no traveling and no unexpected additional work taking me off guard, I’ve been able to catch up with many little jobs which had been put on the backburner. As I remarked to Susannah a few [...]
In the second of our discussions of King Lear, we consider the paradoxical way in which the play treats themes of foolishness, madness, sanity and sanctity....
Continuing our pilgrimage on the path to Rome with Hilaire Belloc, we find our pilgrim almost penniless and reduced to begging:
In this weeks Poem of the Week, we celebrate St. David's Day and St. Casimir's Day with poems by the Welsh poet, R. S. Thomas, and poems on a Polish theme by Chesterton and Belloc:
Each of us has a responsibility to become patrons of the Catholic arts. Here's why and here's how: https://www.ncregister.com/blog/support-the-catholic-arts
What should we feel about the censoring of great works of literature by neo-puritans? I tackle this thorny question in an essay just published by the Imaginative Conservative: https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/02/airbrushing-out-naughty-bits-censoring-great-books-joseph-pearce.html
Is the West worth saving? Here's my asking and answering of this question: https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/02/which-west-worth-saving-joseph-pearce.html
In the latest of a series of interviews that I've given with a Polish journal, I discuss the influence of the Jesuit Martyr, St. Robert Southwell, on the life and and work of William Shakespeare. As has been customary, these interviews are being made available in English by Catholic World Report: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2021/02/21/the-jesuit-martyr-who-inspired-shakespeare/
As we continue on our pilgrimage to Rome with Hilaire Belloc, we find him almost penniless, penurious and pensive....
Continuing our Lenten poetic pilgrimage, we read and discuss Siegfried Sassoon's post-conversion meditation, "Lenten Illuminations":
