Thoughts from Home and Abroad

Tragedy, the pursuit of power and the problem of pride... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sXrsMcaiMLE

We're all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the StAR... Audio File

The foolishness of censoring Shakespeare... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/11/shakespeare-makes-fool-censors-joseph-pearce.html

The course I'm teaching for Rosary College this semester on Early Modern Literature and Culture is coming to an end. We've been immersed in the plays of Shakespeare, the Metaphysical Poets and Milton's epic. Next semester, I'll be teaching a course on Modern Literature and Culture, covering the period from the Romantic Poets in the [...]

What is it about Robert Hugh Benson's dystopian novel, The Lord of the World, which has caught the attention of the three most recent popes? Why 3 Popes Say the Antichrist Novel ‘Lord of the World’ Predicted Our Times| National Catholic Register  

Exposing the way that directors can pervert the meaning of Shakespeare's plays without changing any of his words... How to change the meaning of a play without changing words #josephpearce #booktalk #theatre  

Fr. Fessio, Joseph Pearce, and Vivian Dudro reflect on Newman’s conversion and the great suffering he had to bear as a result of his conversion... Off the Shelf: John Henry Newman: A Life Sacrificed – Episode 7  

I love this two-minute video reenactment of The Lord of the Rings choreographed to Irish dance... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXqdKUr3Uqc

Can acts of seemingly pure self-sacrificial love be morally reckless? F. Marion Crawford’s dexterous handling of such questions in “The Heart of Rome” marks the novel as deserving a place in the canon of great twentieth-century literature... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/11/hidden-gem-heart-rome-francis-marion-crawford-joseph-pearce.html

France and the Faith... https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/france-and-the-faith-the-sacred-heart-of-the-matter