Thoughts from Home and Abroad

Do we live in the best of all possible worlds or is it even better than that? https://youtube.com/shorts/U2wqBO_H-Vw?si=keMUM1N8LJjLp9Tb

Continuing and prolonging our celebration of the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, here's an array of articles, including one of my own, which pay homage to her enduring literary legacy... https://www.ncregister.com/topic/jane-austen

The Troubadours discuss their favourite Christmas music and also the Christmas music that they find particularly annoying... https://saintmartinsacademy.org/Troubadours/?mc_cid=c0c1692f53

On Jane Austen's 250th birthday, we pay tribute to her common sense and religious sensibility... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/12/jane-austen-250th-anniversary-celebration-joseph-pearce.html

As the request of Carl Olson, editor of Catholic World Report, I've given a list of the best books I read in 2025... https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/12/12/the-best-books-i-read-in-2025/#Pearce

The devil has been given enough rope and is hanging himself... https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/is-the-culture-of-death-committing-suicide

How romantic is Romeo and what is romanticism anyway? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cs8uO39MnyA

Great literature shows us who we are. It is like a mirror that shows us ourselves. It shows us our character, our personality, our personhood... https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/real-men-read-poetry

Should we see Shakespeare through Romeo's eyes or should we see Romeo through Shakespeare's eyes? https://rumble.com/v72ltb4-in-a-nutshell-with-joseph-pearce-33-shakespeares-creative-revisionism-in-ro.html

An exclusive preview of the four new podcasts posted this week in the Inner Sanctum... Audio File