Ida Görres outlines the Victorian era in which St. John Henry Newman found himself. Fr. Fessio, Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pearce discuss how this era was marked by rationalism, industrialism, and scientism. Joseph then claims that Newman is a light or first-wave romantic that maintained a childlikeness rather than a dark or second-generation romantic that [...]
If this world is the shadowlands, as C. S. Lewis described it, does this mean that spirits are more solid than we are? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/scIsDYoN1H4
My lively and invigorating conversation with the great and courageous Jesuit, Fr. Robert McTeigue... https://thecatholiccurrent.libsyn.com/great-books-for-good-men-joseph-pearce-10925
“Wake Up!” on Catholic Community Radio has posted its ten-minute interview with Joseph Pearce, which begins at approximately 40:00: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPi4lqrAO7Y
Can we get to heaven through the power of our will to do what Jesus commands? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vPzX-m45LxQ
Is it possible to read the Great Books objectively? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iYfOvunSuNA
John Henry Newman was born in 1801, at the beginning of a century that would see the rise of skepticism in matters of religion. Yet, simultaneously, it was a century which would see a real revival of religious orthodoxy. With respect to the latter, Newman himself might be seen as the most important and influential [...]
Fr. Fessio, Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pearce begin Ida Friederike Görres’s book John Henry Newman: A Life Sacrificed. After briefly summarizing the life of Ida Görres, the three commentators dive into this introduction to St. John Henry Newman, and they comment on Ida’s prescience and whether or not one can be a Christian humanist... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUCBPNA_HPQ
The valley of tears is also a veil of tears in which we see through a glass darkly and sorrowfully... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hFas7y-bZBM
Is fantasy unreal or is it the necessary path to reality? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6FpJqakP3SQ
