Joseph Pearce

There was a time, a far healthier time, when the heroism of those who defended Malta from the Islamic onslaught was lauded by the whole Christian world.

Having surveyed the liturgical presence in Medieval and Early Modern literature in my two previous essays, we'll continue our survey with a review

Shakespeare made ample use of ghosts, ghouls, and witches in his plays. Halloween is a perfect time to look at the spooks in his works!

There are many holy men and women in the plays of William Shakespeare – and a surprising number of canonized saints. Here are six of them.

Much as Evelyn Waugh insisted that the theme of “Brideshead Revisited” was “the operation of divine grace”, J.R.R. Tolkien insisted in a letter to a friend that “'The Lord of the Rings' is, of course, a fundamentally religious and Catholic work.”

Why, one wonders, should one of the most famous people in history be featured as one of the unsung heroes of Christendom? This would seem to be a good question until we realize that most people do not perceive Shakespeare as a hero of Christendom. He is sung, to be sure. He is sung more widely and more loudly than almost anyone. But he is not sung in tune.

The recent publication of a private letter written by King Charles III in 1998, when he was Prince of Wales, is causing quite a stir. Written to a friend, Dudley Poplak, it expresses King Charles' disdain for the imposition of scientism on agriculture, which is itself of interest, but also expresses his scorn for the imposition of “loathsome political correctness” on Christian belief, which might come as a surprise to those who had always assumed that the King had himself succumbed to such “correctness”.

Pioneering priests such as Frs. Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machebeuf are unsung heroes of Christendom, but deserve to be recognized.

Fr. Joseph Fessio I have always had a soft spot for the Society of Jesus, even though my heart has been hardened by those modernized and

The end of the world is when we die but the end of the world is not the end of us.