Race and Education
By Joseph Pearce| If we truly want to overcome the curse of racism, we need to begin with restoring the humanities, the voice of the human race, to their rightful place at the heart of any good, true and beautiful education. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the premiere of Destiny, a politically-charged play by the […]
Heroes From an Unsung Country
Joseph Pearce – August 3rd, 2025 Uruguay’s secular culture shuns Catholicism, yet heroes like Saint Anna Maria Rubatto and convert Alberto Methol Ferré defy the “libertine atheist” tide. A survey of the presence of the Catholic Church in South America will invariably focus on the largest nations, Brazil and Argentina, with reference also to countries such […]
Under the Southern Cross
Joseph Pearce, July 6th, 2025, Unsung Heroes of Christendom John Plunkett defended the dignity of the natives of Australia; Caroline Chisholm defended the dignity of vulnerable immigrants to Australia. In doing so, they offer a living witness to the Lord’s commandment that we love our neighbors. Long after European adventurers had first sailed into the mystic […]
Four More Australian Heroes of the Faith
Joseph Pearce July 19th, 2025|, Unsung Heroes of Christendom A look at four more unsung heroes from the Australian continent, including the great Frank Sheed! In the previous essay in this series, we focused on two heroic Australian Catholics who witnessed to the Faith in their defense of the dignity of the human person. In this chapter, we […]
Worse Than the Nazis: The UK Government’s Final Solution
Joseph Pearce July 11th, 2025| The culture of death that the government of the UK has unleashed on its own people is all so diabolically ugly that it has something of the character of the caricature. It has the grimness of the grimace of a grotesque gargoyle. There was something darkly comical about the recent […]
An Englishman in post-revolutionary America: A Fourth of July reflection
Perhaps, more than two centuries later, we can celebrate the life and legacy of William Cobbett on this Independence Day, even as we celebrate the life and legacy of the United States of America. Joseph Pearce July 3, 2025 – The Dispatch As Americans celebrate their independence from England, it is worth remembering an Englishman, later to […]
Unsung Heroes of Harvard
Joseph Pearce Amidst the battered “Veritas” of Harvard, there are a few still heroically walking in the footsteps of their Catholic predecessors. It is ironic and risible in the extreme that the motto of Harvard University is “Veritas” because that once-illustrious institution has long since abandoned any belief in objective verity. It has ceased to seek […]
Singers Silenced by War
Joseph Pearce The 20th Century is marked by the loss of voices cut short in mid-song by war. There have been so many dark centuries in the history of Christendom that one hesitates to call any particular century the darkest of all. Some have been as dark as the 20th century, but none have been […]
A Prophet in Shining Armor
Joseph Pearce To the ears of the Western mind saturated with modernism, anything that might seem to oppose the absolute “rights of man” is utterly foreign, even to good Catholics. “Into the tempests of the nineteenth century, Juan Donoso Cortes rode as knight-errant, prophet, and Man of the West.” Such is the picture that historian Christopher […]
A Lamb and a Shepherd Among Wolves
Joseph Pearce. Many Catholics believe, in theory, that sacrificing one’s life for another is a noble and Christian act; yet, when confronted with the reality, we often count the cost. On August 9, 1943, on the first anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross at Auschwitz, a devout Austrian Catholic, Franz […]