Joseph Pearce is the author of numerous books, including biographies of G.K. Chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien, Oscar Wilde, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, William Shakespeare, and more, and is the editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions series. He has written books about literature, including Literature: What […]
Eventually, when the Incarnation of the Son of Man is rejected, the rejection of man inevitably follows. This abolition of man is what we are […]
The celebration of Christmas has a way of amplifying our ordinary family experience. For a loving and harmonious family, Christmas tends to be the time when its familial bonds are tightened. The members of such […]
I still have the Nativity creche that I grew up with in my boyhood home. It’s older than I am. From my parent’s home to mine, it has enjoyed a place in the living room […]
A true poetics engages the real. A true poetics is not kitsch or sentimentalism. As Flannery O’Connor reminds us, the best writing and poetry “is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the […]
Christianity haunts our culture. It appears to us as a phantom presence, pale shimmering and gossamer, which we glimpse from time to time – in places familiar, to make them strange; and in places strange, […]
People who are serious about handing on the faith to the next generation, whether they are in Catholic parishes or schools, have been frustrated by the same problem: the widening gap between faith and the […]
Dr. Peter Kreeft is a prolific writer. Stunningly prolific. This is a man who has taught philosophy at Boston College since 1965, while maintaining a robust schedule as an in-demand speaker on all things Catholic—although […]
A crucially important feature of Catholic social teaching, but one frequently underemphasized or misunderstood, is a clear animus against the concentration of power within a society. This perilous agglomeration can happen economically, politically, or culturally. […]
We used to keep death close, even stare it in the face: the skull on the desk beside the book, the graveyard right next to the church, crypts under the floors where we knelt. We […]
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