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But in later life Chesterton made no secret of the fact that he didn’t care for institutionalised learning, describing education as ‘being instructed by somebody I did not know about something I did n...

Joseph Pearce

But in later life Chesterton made no secret of the fact that he didn’t care for institutionalised learning, describing education as ‘being instructed by somebody I did not know about something I did n...

Every evil design that is meant by the evil characters will ultimately serve the greater good that is meant by God. Bilbo is meant to find the Ring by the Ring’s Master (Sauron) but at the same time h...

Joseph Pearce

Every evil design that is meant by the evil characters will ultimately serve the greater good that is meant by God. Bilbo is meant to find the Ring by the Ring’s Master (Sauron) but at the same time h...

About Author
Joseph Pearce (born February 12, 1961), is an English-born American writer, and as of 2014 Director of the Center for Faith and Culture at Aquinas College in Nashville, Tennessee, before which he held positions at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, New Hampshire, Ave Maria College in Ypsilanti, Michigan and Ave Maria University in Ave Maria, Florida.
He is a co-editor of the St. Austin Review.
Pearce has written biographies of literary figures, often Christian, including William Shakespeare, J. R. R. Tolkien, Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Hilaire Belloc.

I was still very much embroiled in the racist politics of the National Front, living a double-life in which I wrote hate-filled propaganda during the day and read the love-filled pages of Chesterton a...

Joseph Pearce

I was still very much embroiled in the racist politics of the National Front, living a double-life in which I wrote hate-filled propaganda during the day and read the love-filled pages of Chesterton a...

I learned from the recklessness of my youthful relationships that unbridled passion is destructive and brings neither happiness nor satisfaction. On the contrary, it brings suffering to all concerned....

Joseph Pearce

I learned from the recklessness of my youthful relationships that unbridled passion is destructive and brings neither happiness nor satisfaction. On the contrary, it brings suffering to all concerned....

In reading Chesterton I was undermining my own most dearly held prejudices.

Joseph Pearce

In reading Chesterton I was undermining my own most dearly held prejudices.

It is essentially self-centered. It is the erotic manifestation of the creed of Polonius, which had exerted such a disastrous influence on my own life: This above all: To thine own self be true. It is...

Joseph Pearce

It is essentially self-centered. It is the erotic manifestation of the creed of Polonius, which had exerted such a disastrous influence on my own life: This above all: To thine own self be true. It is...

Las nuevas religiones se adaptan al mundo nuevo en cierto modo; éste es su defecto más condenable...

Joseph Pearce

Las nuevas religiones se adaptan al mundo nuevo en cierto modo; éste es su defecto más condenable...

Gandalf’s very last words are unequivocal and could not be starker or plainer: Be good, take care of yourselves—and DON’T LEAVE THE PATH! Here we see Gandalf as the archetypal father-figure advising h...

Joseph Pearce

Gandalf’s very last words are unequivocal and could not be starker or plainer: Be good, take care of yourselves—and DON’T LEAVE THE PATH! Here we see Gandalf as the archetypal father-figure advising h...

It has been said that most of us are given life in order to learn whereas a special few are given life in order to teach. How true this is. Leo has taught us so much. He has taught us to love more tru...

Joseph Pearce

It has been said that most of us are given life in order to learn whereas a special few are given life in order to teach. How true this is. Leo has taught us so much. He has taught us to love more tru...

For Tolkien, Catholicism was not an opinion to which one subscribed but a reality to which one submitted. Quite simply, pseudo-psychology aside, Tolkien remained a Catholic for the simple if disarming...

Joseph Pearce

For Tolkien, Catholicism was not an opinion to which one subscribed but a reality to which one submitted. Quite simply, pseudo-psychology aside, Tolkien remained a Catholic for the simple if disarming...

Tags: catholicism, j r r tolkien, tolkien

When Belloc said that the Protestant Reformation was the shipwreck of Christendom, he was simply stating a historical fact, but it was controversial because history is political.

Joseph Pearce

When Belloc said that the Protestant Reformation was the shipwreck of Christendom, he was simply stating a historical fact, but it was controversial because history is political.

My descent into delinquency was aided and abetted by the progressive philosophy adopted by the school. No effort was made to impose discipline, which resulted in the triumph of anarchy in the classroo...

Joseph Pearce

My descent into delinquency was aided and abetted by the progressive philosophy adopted by the school. No effort was made to impose discipline, which resulted in the triumph of anarchy in the classroo...

The two great commandments of Christ are that we love the Lord our God and that we love our neighbor. They are commandments that must be obeyed even if—especially if—the love is not accompanied by any...

Joseph Pearce

The two great commandments of Christ are that we love the Lord our God and that we love our neighbor. They are commandments that must be obeyed even if—especially if—the love is not accompanied by any...

Pienso, como pensaba Cecil, que la lucha por la familia, por los ciudadanos libres y por todo lo decente ha de librarse hoy día desde la sección combativa del cristianismo.

Joseph Pearce

Pienso, como pensaba Cecil, que la lucha por la familia, por los ciudadanos libres y por todo lo decente ha de librarse hoy día desde la sección combativa del cristianismo.

«Qué haríamos con dos millones (si los tuviéramos)», explica la diferencia entre los filántropos y los cristianos: «Los filántropos se los darían a los pobres que se lo merecieran, y los cristianos, a...

Joseph Pearce

«Qué haríamos con dos millones (si los tuviéramos)», explica la diferencia entre los filántropos y los cristianos: «Los filántropos se los darían a los pobres que se lo merecieran, y los cristianos, a...

To go to seances with good intentions is like holding a smoking concert in a powder-magazine on behalf of an orphan asylum.’4

Joseph Pearce

To go to seances with good intentions is like holding a smoking concert in a powder-magazine on behalf of an orphan asylum.’4

In the absence of virtue and wisdom, intelligence becomes a servant of evil.

Joseph Pearce

In the absence of virtue and wisdom, intelligence becomes a servant of evil.

To me the art of the Counter Reformation was a pure joy and I loved the churches of Bernini and Borromini no less than the ancient basilicas. And this in turn led me to the literature of the Counter R...

Joseph Pearce

To me the art of the Counter Reformation was a pure joy and I loved the churches of Bernini and Borromini no less than the ancient basilicas. And this in turn led me to the literature of the Counter R...

The mistakes of my youth have allowed me to see what true love is through the experience of its absence. They have allowed me to see that love is not a feeling but an action. It is the laying down of...

Joseph Pearce

The mistakes of my youth have allowed me to see what true love is through the experience of its absence. They have allowed me to see that love is not a feeling but an action. It is the laying down of...

And here is the paradox at the heart of the Christian life: The one who embraces suffering, who dies to himself in order to die for others, is actually happier than the one who shuns suffering and who...

Joseph Pearce

And here is the paradox at the heart of the Christian life: The one who embraces suffering, who dies to himself in order to die for others, is actually happier than the one who shuns suffering and who...