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• St. Austin Review2026-10-09✓ Read

  The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful

  Joseph Pearce discusses the history of Christendom on the “Cradle and Convert” podcast... The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful - Joseph Pearce

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• St. Austin Review2026-10-09✓ Read

  Healing the Great Schism

  The scars that the Church Militant wears are war wounds; they are the crowns of thorns worn by those who are crucified with Christ… Healing the Great Schism – Joseph Pearce

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• St. Austin Review2026-10-09✓ Read

  St. Pius V and the Battle of Lepanto

  A holy pope, Our Lady of Victory and the defence of Christendom... St. Pius V and the Battle of Lepanto - Joseph Pearce

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• St. Austin Review2026-10-06✓ Read

  Napoleon Revisited

  Joseph Pearce revisits Chesterton’s novel, The Napoleon of Notting Hill... Napoleon Revisited - Joseph Pearce

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• St. Austin Review2026-10-03✓ Read

  Living in Heaven’s Overspill

  Seeing the world as our guardian angels see it... Living in Heaven’s Overspill - Joseph Pearce

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• St. Austin Review2026-10-03✓ Read

  Defeating the Culture of Death

  The fight to terminate future generations before they ever take their first breath has resulted in the necessity to fight to stay alive once you’re deemed too great a burden… Defeating the Culture of Death - Joseph Pearce

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• St. Austin Review2026-09-29✓ Read

  Mining in a Lost Continent

  Writing for the Harvard Library Bulletin in 2001, James Hankins described what he called a lost continent. He noted that “the Neo-Latin literature of the Renaissance and Baroque periods has been almost entirely forgotten.” Its being so fully forgotten means that it has become “an Atlantis, a lost continent of literature, sunken between Graeco-Roman literature [...]

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• St. Austin Review2026-09-29✓ Read

  England’s True Queen

  Our Lady of Walsingham has been the true queen of England for almost a thousand years... Our Lady of Walsingham: England’s Queen - Joseph Pearce

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• St. Austin Review2026-09-29✓ Read

  Belloc’s Belinda

  As a novelist, Hilaire Belloc was prolific though not always particularly adept. The one notable exception is his “Belinda” of 1928. Subtitled “A Tale of Affection in Youth and Age,” Belloc believed that this late novel was the one work of fiction with which he could feel satisfied… Belloc’s Belinda – Joseph Pearce

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• St. Austin Review2026-09-29✓ Read

  Back in the Day

  Reminiscing with the Troubadours… For the first time in many moons, the fab five were all present for Tuesdays with the Troubs – this time to reminisce about the halcyon days of their youth. In a touching and personal episode, get to a glimpse of the Troubadours as boys. Who held a paper route? Who was an avid baseball card collector? Who walked 10 miles to school uphill both ways, barefoot? Ok, nearly barefoot.

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• St. Austin Review2026-09-15✓ Read

  The Greatest Englishman

  Is a little-known Jesuit martyr the greatest ever Englishman? The Greatest Englishman – Joseph Pearce

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• St. Austin Review2026-09-15✓ Read

  Why Catholics Should Read Classic Fiction

  The greatest truths are to be found in the greatest fiction... Why Catholics Should Read Classic Fiction - Joseph Pearce

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• St. Austin Review2026-09-15✓ Read

  Poland: Europe’s Heroic Heart

  A nation forged in the fires of faith, Poland remains at the heart of Catholic Europe… Poland: Europe’s Heroic Heart - Joseph Pearce

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