Thoughts from Home and Abroad

Poets praise the Assumption... https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/heaven-bears-the-prize-away

St. Robert Southwell's influence on the Bard of Avon... https://rumble.com/v7e0vm4-in-a-nutshell-with-joseph-pearce-47-a-catholic-influencer-and-william-shake.html

In The Brothers Karamazov, the man of God has the last laugh. Dostoevsky also has the last laugh, and it is at the devil’s expense. The joke is on Satan and those fools who fall for his lies... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2026/08/brothers-karamazov-nutshell-joseph-pearce.html

My talk at last year's Chesterton Conference in New Orleans on the epic love of the great Cajun heroine, Evangeline... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjQBbpLbvGo

Admiring Peter Kreeft's wonderful melding of fiction, faith and philosophy... https://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/an-ocean-full-of-angels-a-novel-by-peter-kreeft/107795

Revisiting The Brothers Karamazov... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2026/08/dostoevsky-rediscovered-joseph-pearce.html

Celebrating the friendship and partnership of two great popes... https://insidethevatican.com/magazine/special-section/st-john-paul-ii-and-benedict-xvi-defenders-of-the-faith/

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It is a reassuring thought that Pope Leo XIV lives in a city that Catholics call home, which is protected by a wall built by a great pope and saint named Leo... https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/saint-leo-the-wall-builder

The stories of John Gerard, Robert Southwell, and other Jesuit missionaries reveal the courage of Catholics who endured England’s fiercest religious persecution... https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/pearce-jesuit-martyrs-and-the-tudor-terror