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Articles by Joseph Pearce

About Joseph Pearce

Joseph Pearce is the author of The Quest for Shakespeare: The Bard of Avon and the Church of Rome and Through Shakespeare's Eyes: Seeing the Catholic Presence in the Plays, as well as several biographies and works of history and literary criticism. His most recent books include Faith of Our Fathers: A History of 'True' England and The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: A History in Three Dimensions. Other works include Literary Converts, Poems Every Catholic Should Know, and Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know, and literary biographies of Oscar Wilde, J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He is the editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions series. Director of Book Publishing at the Augustine Institute, editor of the St. Austin Review, editor of Faith & Culture, and is Senior Contributor at The Imaginative Conservative. Visit his website at jpearce.co.

Defending America’s Rule of Reason

September 11, 2020 Joseph Pearce 19

America is in crisis. Beyond the trials and tribulations associated with COVID-19, there is rioting in the streets and calls for the “rebranding” of the United States in terms of identity politics. These are times […]

Hilaire Belloc: Defender of the Faith

July 26, 2020 Joseph Pearce 11

Hilaire Belloc was born on July 27, 1870. To commemorate and celebrate the 150th anniversary of Belloc’s birth, Joseph Pearce, author of Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc, was interviewed by Jan Franczak for the […]

Exposing the first 20th-Century genocide: The Armenian genocide

July 5, 2020 Joseph Pearce 16

Siobhan Nash-Marshall is uniquely placed to offer penetrating and illuminating insights into one of the darkest and most horrific chapters in human history. The chair of philosophy at Manhattanville College in New York is the […]

“No mercy, no justice”: Fr. Moloney’s lessons for minds that hate

June 24, 2020 Joseph Pearce 24

There was a bitter irony in the treatment of Fr. Daniel Moloney, who was forced to resign as Catholic chaplain at MIT for suggesting that we should keep our heads and not lose them in […]

“Crucify Him!”: The Will of the Mob and Fr. Daniel Moloney

June 20, 2020 Joseph Pearce 56

Fr. Daniel Moloney is one of the finest priests I know and one of the most erudite. I have been honored to work with him in my capacity as Director of Book Publishing at the […]

G.K. Chesterton and Corpus Christi

June 10, 2020 Joseph Pearce 3

This Sunday is a very special anniversary for all who admire the great English writer, G. K. Chesterton. It was on this date in 1936 that Chesterton died. In that year, the Sunday after Corpus […]

Minds that Hate: A Meditation on Racially-Charged Rioting

June 3, 2020 Joseph Pearce 31

But if you want money for people with minds that hate All I can tell is brother you’ll have to wait. — John Lennon (From the lyrics of “Revolution” by the Beatles) The recent racially-charged […]

Dean Koontz: A Confession

May 20, 2020 Joseph Pearce 14

I have a confession to make. It relates to a longstanding sin of omission. Here I am in my sixtieth year and I can claim to have the dubious distinction of never having read any […]

“Death on drum”: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the mystery of suffering

May 4, 2020 Joseph Pearce 4

The mystery of suffering, or the problem of pain as C. S. Lewis called it, has puzzled people since time immemorial, for as long, in fact, as people have been asking fundamental questions about the […]

Lessons from History on the Coronavirus Pandemic

April 8, 2020 Joseph Pearce 6

In a recent article for Catholic World Report I offered some “lessons from literature on the coronavirus”, focusing on the three chapters in Manzoni’s classic novel, The Betrothed, which are set during the plague that […]