Following the death of Paul Thigpen, the great convert and theologian who wrote around fifty books, we celebrate his legacy with a reading of his prophetic poem, The Burden, his "warning of things to come"...
How close was C. S. Lewis to becoming a Catholic?
Recommending a great but little-known novel for Lenten reading... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2026/02/lenten-initiation-joseph-pearce.html
Why is The Lord of the Rings an epic, not a novel, and did Peter Jackson succeed in turning the epic into a film? https://crisismagazine.com/podcast/the-epic-lord-of-the-rings-guest-joseph-pearce
The son of the Archbishop of Canterbury who became a Catholic priest and one of the great novelists of the last century... Audio File
What Chesterton saw in America a century ago and what we see today...
Ladydale Diary Friday after Ash Wednesday, 2026 A flight to Kansas to attend the Prairie Troubadours conference... Audio File
Lenten lines of penance mingle with the singing of outlaws and the song of a poet upon Westminster Bridge...
Finding Christ in Middle-Earth... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2026/02/christ-figures-the-lord-of-the-rings-joseph-pearce.html
My daughter Evangeline, a homeschooled high school senior, has just had one of her papers published on the Rosary College website. It's a lucid discussion of the purpose of education which I'm delighted to share here... https://totustuus.rosary.college/the-purpose-of-education-and-its-application-in-society/
