Joseph Pearce - Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts

Joseph Pearce explores G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday, revealing a masterful blend of mystery, paradox, faith, and divine providence. The post GWWL13 – G. K. Chesterton and The Man Who Was Thursday – Great Works in Western Literature with Joseph Pearce – Discerning Hearts Podcasts appeared first on Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts .

Joseph Pearce explores Bram Stoker’s Dracula, revealing themes of spiritual battle, evil, sacramental power, and Christian truth. The post GWWL12 – Bram Stoker – Dracula – Great Works in Western Literature with Joseph Pearce – Discerning Hearts Podcasts appeared first on Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts .

Joseph Pearce explores Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice and King Lear, revealing powerful themes of mercy, justice, pride, and redemption. The post GWWL11 – William Shakespeare – Merchant of Venice and King Lear – Great Works in Western Literature with Joseph Pearce – Discerning Hearts Podcasts appeared first on Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts .

Joseph Pearce explores C.S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress, a powerful allegory of conversion, desire, truth, and the journey to faith. The post GWWL10 – C.S. Lewis – Pilgrim’s Regress – Great Works in Western Literature with Joseph Pearce – Discerning Hearts Podcasts appeared first on Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts .

Joseph Pearce explores Melville’s Moby-Dick, revealing a powerful story of pride, obsession, and the search for truth and meaning. The post GWWL9 – Herman Melville – Moby Dick – Great Works in Western Literature with Joseph Pearce – Discerning Hearts Podcasts appeared first on Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts .

Joseph Pearce explores Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Macbeth, revealing powerful themes of conscience, sin, grace, and moral choice. The post GWWL8 – William Shakespeare – Hamlet and Macbeth – Great Works in Western Literature with Joseph Pearce – Discerning Hearts Podcasts appeared first on Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts .

Joseph Pearce explores Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, revealing a powerful story of sin, repentance, mercy, and redemption. The post GWWL7 – Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter – Great Works in Western Literature with Joseph Pearce – Discerning Hearts Podcasts appeared first on Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts .

Joseph Pearce explores Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, revealing a powerful story of virtue, humility, and authentic love rooted in truth. The post GWWL6 –Jane Austen – Pride & Prejuidice and Mansfield Park – Great Works in Western Literature with Joseph Pearce – Discerning Hearts Podcasts appeared first on Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts .

Joseph Pearce explores Dickens’ Great Expectations, revealing a powerful story of pride, conversion, and discovering true happiness beyond wealth. The post GWWL5 – Charles Dickens and Great Expectations – Great Works in Western Literature with Joseph Pearce – Discerning Hearts Podcasts appeared first on Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts .

Joseph Pearce explores Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, revealing its powerful satire on pride, politics, scientism, and modern culture. The post GWWL4 – Jonathan Swift & Gulliver’s Travels – Great Works in Western Literature with Joseph Pearce – Discerning Hearts Podcasts appeared first on Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts .

Joseph Pearce explores Oscar Wilde’s life and The Picture of Dorian Gray, revealing a powerful story about vanity, conscience, sin, and the fate of the soul. The post GWWL3 – Oscar Wilde & The Picture of Dorian Gray – Great Works in Western Literature with Joseph Pearce – Discerning Hearts Podcasts appeared first on Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts .

Joseph Pearce and Kris McGregor explore Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, examining its moral vision, the consequences of unchecked scientific ambition, the novel’s cultural misreadings, and the enduring relevance of its questions about technology, responsibility, and love. The post GWWL2 – Mary Shelley and Frankenstein – Great Works in Western Literature with Joseph Pearce – Discerning Hearts Podcasts...

Joseph Pearce and Kris McGregor explore Wuthering Heights as a profoundly Christian novel that critiques destructive passion rather than celebrating romantic obsession. Through the figures of Heathcliff, Catherine and Nelly Dean, Emily Brontë exposes the spiritual damage caused by ego-driven desire and calls readers toward mature, self-giving love rooted in moral clarity. The post GWWL1 – Emily Br...

We continue our exploration of Robert Cardinal Sarah’s “The Day Is Now Far Spent”—a tour de force response to the present darkness in the Church. From the New York City skyline to the meaning of the word “Modernism”. We continue our discussion of Robert Cardinal Sarah’s “The Day Is Now Far Spent”. You can find ... Read more The post Episode 3 –...

We begin our exploration of Robert Cardinal Sarah's "The Day Is Now Far Spent"—a tour de force response to the present darkness in the Church.  From the New York City skyline to the meaning of the word "Modernism". We continue our discussion of Robert Cardinal Sarah's "The Day Is Now Far Spent". The post Episode 2 – The Day Is Now Far Spent – Fr. Joseph Fessio S.J., Vivian Dudro, and J...

We begin our exploration of Robert Cardinal Sarah's "The Day Is Now Far Spent"—a tour de force response to the present darkness in the Church. In this week's reading, the cardinal pays a special tribute to such controversial churchmen as Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (all Ignatius Press authors). What he says may surprise you. The post Episode 1 – The...

We will be praying with and learning from Blessed John Henry Newman for many, many years to come. Joseph Pearce has been an excellent student, as well as an instructor of (or should I say “illuminator of”) the life and work of this great man, John Henry Newman, and who is now a bonafide member of the ... Read more The post IP#34 Joseph Pearce – The Heart of Newman on Inside the Pages w...

We discuss “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe” by C. S. Lewis. Four adventurous siblings—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie—step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return ... Read more The post GWML#24 – C. S. Lewis “The Lion, The Wi...

Episode 10 – Great Works in Western Literature with Joseph Pearce – William Shakespeare Though a staple in high school English classes, Julius Caesar is not a simple play. Seemingly irreconcilable forces are at work: fate and free will, the changeableness and stubbornness of ambitious men, the demands of public service and the desire for ... Read more The post GWML#23 William Shakespea...

In this exciting novel set during the French Revolution, Charles Dickens expresses sympathy for the downtrodden poor and their outrage at the self-indulgent aristocracy. But Dickens is no friend of the vengeful mob that storms the Bastille and cheers the guillotine. As with all of his stories, his passion is for the unforgettable and unrepeatable individuals he creates. The sorrows of the sufferin...

"Eliot's place as a poet of the highest stature is assured. The Waste Land is the quintessential debunking of modernity and is also, simultaneously, a potent antidote to the poison of postmodernism.." --Joseph Pearce - St. Austin Review -- An excerpt from "The Wasteland" by T. S. Eliot If there were water And no rock If there were rock And also water And water 350 A spring A pool among the rock If...

The Confessions of Saint Augustine is considered one of the greatest Christian classics of all time. It is an extended poetic, passionate, intimate prayer that Augustine wrote as an autobiography sometime after his conversion, to confess his sins and proclaim God's goodness. Just as his first hearers were captivated by his powerful conversion story, so also have many millions been over the followi...

Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is, according to many critics and fond readers, the great American novel. Full of vibrant American characters, intriguing regional dialects and folkways, and down-home good humor, it also hits Americans in one of their greatest and on-going sore spots: the fraught issue of racism. As Huck and Jim float down the Mississippi and encounter all manner of peo...

"In brief, however, the power of Tolkien lies in the way that he succeeds, through myth, in making the Tolkienunseen hand of providence felt by the reader. In his mythical creations, or sub-creations as he would call them, he shows how the unseen hand of God is felt far more forcefully in myth than it is ever felt in fiction. Paradoxically, fiction works with facts, albeit invented facts, whereas...

Another phenomenal work by the prolific Joseph Pearce, this time bringing us the “Heroes of the Catholic Reformation: Saints Who Renewed the Church.” Our conversation covers a pivotal century which brings us many of the extraordinary spiritual figures of 16th century.  Filled with fascinating insights, this is not just a book about yesterday, but offers guideposts for ... Read more The...