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Robert Hugh Benson, literary converts, and the Church in a dystopian age

November 13, 2020 Joseph Pearce 4

In this interview with Jan Franczak for the Polish Journal, PCh24, biographer and literary critic Joseph Pearce discusses the importance of the convert writer, Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914), as well as other great literary converts. […]

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Why The Lord of the Rings is a masterpiece

June 27, 2018 Thomas M. Doran 4

At its core, J.R.R. Tolkien’s story is nothing like its fantasy clones, because its roots go much deeper, they drink from eternal truths, without offering […]

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Joyce Kilmer, John Paul II, and the artistic vocation

June 15, 2018 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 4

All who reverence the Bible, but especially Christians, ought to have a deep appreciation for words and for those who take words and give them […]

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Going “further up and further in” to Narnia with Joseph Pearce

May 8, 2018 Paul Senz 1

“In reading The Chronicles of Narnia,” says the prolific biographer and critic, “we find ourselves in the presence of great and necessary truths.” […]

The Dispatch

Joseph Pearce reflects on his “dramatic verse tapestry” about two “war poets”

July 25, 2017 Paul Senz 2

For the past two decades, since the publication of Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Pearce has established himself as a leading biographer of Christian novelists, poets, authors, and intellectuals. He has written […]

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Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston has recently warned that student debt is threatening marriage, but one group is trying keep it from threatening religious vocations, too. The Mater Ecclesiae Fund for Vocations (MEFV) offers grants that […]

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