Thoughts from Home and Abroad

My convivial conversation with Steve and Becky of the "Cradle and Convert" podcast on the history of Christendom. Our conversation begins at around the 15 minute mark... YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGXNXsjp7I4&t=46s Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mildewy-shirts-boomer-hits-becky-the-good-bad/id6786094913?i=1000788364236 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/6kCRT6fQRf2TKnsMhi5iHH

The scars that the Church Militant wears are war wounds; they are the crowns of thorns worn by those who are crucified with Christ... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2026/10/healing-great-schism-reuniting-rome-orthodox-dmitri-solzhenitsyn.html

Pope Pius, who had done more than anyone to make the Christian victory at Lepanto possible, is said to have burst into tears when news of it reached him... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2026/10/st-pius-v-battle-lepanto-joseph-pearce.html

Revisiting Chesterton's novel, The Napoleon of Notting Hill... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2026/10/napoleon-revisited-joseph-pearce.html

Seeing the world as our guardian angels see it... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2026/10/living-heavens-overspill-joseph-pearce.html

The fight to terminate future generations before they ever take their first breath has resulted in the necessity to fight to stay alive once you're deemed too great a burden... https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/defeating-the-culture-of-death

Our Lady of Walsingham has been the true queen of England for almost a thousand years... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2026/09/our-lady-walsingham-queen-england-joseph-pearce.html

As a novelist, Hilaire Belloc was prolific though not always particularly adept. The one notable exception is his “Belinda” of 1928. Subtitled “A Tale of Affection in Youth and Age,” Belloc believed that this late novel was the one work of fiction with which he could feel satisfied... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2026/09/hilaire-belloc-belinda-joseph-pearce.html

Reminiscing with the Troubadours... For the first time in many moons, the fab five were all present for Tuesdays with the Troubs - this time to reminisce about the halcyon days of their youth. In a touching and personal episode, get to a glimpse of the Troubadours as boys. Who held a paper route? Who [...]

Who is the greatest Englishman who ever lived? Bede? Alfred the Great? Thomas More? Shakespeare? Perhaps a little known Jesuit martyr might be greater than all of them... https://rumble.com/v7fan3m-the-greatest-englishman-in-a-nutshell-with-joseph-pearce-49.html