This is just one of the questions that G. K. Chesterton asks and answers in the latest episode of the FORMED Book Club. Other questions that are asked and answered include the following: Is love blind? Is love bound? What is the ultimate and absolute evil? Why is the suicide the opposite of the martyr? [...]
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Revisiting the conflict between Shylock and Antonio in The Merchant of Venice... In a Nutshell with Joseph Pearce 14: Antonio or Shylock: Who is the main villain?
Poetry suffused with God’s abundant presence, must not be rushed. It must be savoured in silence... Pilgrimage to the Cosmos ~ The Imaginative Conservative
This week, we continue the discussion of Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton. Here's the link: FORMED Book Club: Orthodoxy Episode 10 And here are the discussion questions covering pages 71–74: Is acceptance of the universe optimism or patriotism? My country, right or wrong? My country, drunk or sober? What is the matter with the pessimist? Who is [...]
How Catholic was Ernest Hemingway? New book on Ernest Hemingway’s messy but sincere Catholicism
The Gospel in the Cosmos: Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis w/ Joseph Pearce - Catholic Theology Show | Podcast on Spotify How can we recover a vision of the cosmos as a place filled with divine wonder and purpose? Today, Dr. Michael Dauphinais welcomes Joseph Pearce, Visiting Professor of Literature at Ave [...]
This week's discussion of Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton... FORMED Book Club: Orthodoxy Episode 9 - YouTube Here are the discussion questions covering pages 66–70: Which modern philosopher was “an imperialist of the lowest type”? Why should a man surrender his dignity to the solar system any more than to a whale? Does mere size prove [...]
Celebrating holy women who are not as well-known as they should be... Unsung Heroines of the Early Church - Crisis Magazine
The positive secular reviews that have come in for my off-Broadway verse drama, “Death Comes for the War Poets,” show the power of art to touch hearts even in enemy territory, in the secular art community of New York City, that most “woke” of communities in that most “woke” of cities. This shows the evangelizing [...]
