Joseph Pearce
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- Sep 7, 2026
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- Jul 16, 2026
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American Literature: An Englishman Confesses his Ignorance (opens the original)
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COMMENTARY: After years of neglecting the literature of the New World, old prejudices give way to a belated appreciation of American letters. When I arrived in the United States, four days before the 9/11 attacks many years ago, I was woefully ignorant of American literature. I had read very little and, it must be said, had little desire to read much more. In fact, it must also be said and, yes, confessed, that I had an ingrained prejudice against anything the New World might have to offer. Mea
Jesuit Martyrs and the Tudor Terror (opens the original)
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COMMENTARY: The stories of John Gerard, Robert Southwell, and other Jesuit missionaries reveal the courage of Catholics who endured England’s fiercest religious persecution. In October 1588, a few short weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, a young Jesuit priest, just turned 24 years old, landed secretly on the coast of Norfolk. This was Father John Gerard, who was destined to become one of the most successful of all the missionary priests and therefore one of the most wanted by Elizabet
Hilaire Belloc: Champion of the Catholic Cultural Revival (opens the original)
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Along with G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc was hugely influential in the growth of the Catholic presence in the wider culture. There was a time, two centuries ago, when the Catholic Church was woefully weak in the anglophone world. The British Empire was beginning to straddle the globe, spreading its creed of Enlightenment philosophy and utilitarianism. In the relatively young United States of America, the new nation was stamped with the puritanism of many of its founders. It was the age of the
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