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Should we still know Shakespeare's Friar Lawrence as a holy man? A Villain or a Saint? Who’s Friar Lawrence? #williamshakespeare #josephpearce #romeoandjuliet #books - YouTube  

How close was C. S. Lewis to becoming a Catholic?

Recommending a great but little-known novel for Lenten reading... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2026/02/lenten-initiation-joseph-pearce.html

Why is The Lord of the Rings an epic, not a novel, and did Peter Jackson succeed in turning the epic into a film? https://crisismagazine.com/podcast/the-epic-lord-of-the-rings-guest-joseph-pearce

Finding Christ in Middle-Earth... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2026/02/christ-figures-the-lord-of-the-rings-joseph-pearce.html

My daughter Evangeline, a homeschooled high school senior, has just had one of her papers published on the Rosary College website. It's a lucid discussion of the purpose of education which I'm delighted to share here... https://totustuus.rosary.college/the-purpose-of-education-and-its-application-in-society/

Seeing the future in the presence of the past... https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/truth-and-tradition-seeing-the-future-in-the-light-of-the-past

The one thing that unites man with his most ancient of ancestors and which divides him from all other creatures is his status as a sub-creator, as the imago Dei, who uses his imagination to create in the image of the Creator Himself... https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2026/02/art-signature-man-joseph-pearce.html

Sixty seconds in the presence of beauty...

The meaning of "love" according to Romeo... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qvvSWevXO3A