St. Austin Review: Reclaiming Culture

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Enjoy the ponderings of the Star's contributors and add your own thoughts. As this section develops, we hope it may become a medium for an exchange of ideas among those who are working towards the cultural revival.

• January 21st, 2011Small Is Beautiful - Toujours!by Joseph Pearce

  I've just received through the mail some copies of the French edition of my book, Small is Still Beautiful. This fills me with a degree of excitement. First, on a personal level, I'm excited because this is the first of my books to be translated into French.

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• January 21st, 2011Magic Comes Downtownby Sophia Mason

  It’s not often one sees Chesterton being performed outside of, say, the occasional private Catholic school (not often there either, I imagine!).  But this month Chesterton’s dark comedy Magic is being performed at the Undercroft Theater in Washington, D.C.

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• January 21st, 2011Anglicans Join the True Church of Englandby Joseph Pearce

  With the highly publicized ordination of three former Anglican bishops as Catholic priests at Westminster Cathedral last weekend, it seems that the Holy Father's initiative to return England to the True Church is gathering momentum.

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• January 21st, 2011More Science vs. Scientismby Jennifer Pierce

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• January 21st, 2011Introduction To The Great Works Of Literatureby Joseph Pearce

  The third half hour installment of the ten-part series on the Great Works of Literature is now available. Actually, although it's the third to be edited, ready for release, this is the introduction to the series so will be the first to be broadcast. If this is a little confusing, all will become clear if you can spare a well-spent half hour listening to this edited interview that I did with Kris McGregor, the producer of the series. Here's the link:
  
  http://www.discerninghearts.com/Pearce/Series_Introduction.mp3

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• January 20th, 2011The Passing of Wilfrid Sheedby Joseph Pearce

  The writer and wit, Wilfrid Sheed, son of Frank Sheed and Maisie Ward, and godson of G.K. Chesterton, died yesterday at the age of eighty. Here's a fitting obituary:

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• January 20th, 2011Hilairious Belloc Reference in Vintage British Comedy Sketchby Joseph Pearce

  This comedy sketch from the BBC's "Two Ronnies" is very funny.

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• January 20th, 2011Audio Discussion of Mary Shelley’s Frankensteinby Joseph Pearce

  The second in the series of audio discussions on the Ignatius Critical Editions, in which I discuss the titles in the series with Kris McGregor, has now been released.

   

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• January 17th, 2011Science, Scientism, Saints & Shakespeareby Joseph Pearce

  The internationally-renowned Shakespeare scholar, Father Peter Milward, has sent me a thoughtful and thought-provoking response to the latest issue of StAR, addressing its theme of "Science versus Scientism". I'm posting his comments in extenso:

  On Science versus Scientism

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• January 16th, 2011The Shakespeare Wars Continueby Joseph Pearce

  I note that there is a less than positive review of my book, Through Shakespeare's Eyes, in a new review print publication, with a website as well, named NEW CATHOLIC BOOKS & MEDIA.

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• January 16th, 2011Ratzinger and Habermasby Jennifer Pierce

  Though I'm still warmed with joy over the upcoming beatification of John Paul II, I can't help but think there is far more to Joseph Ratzinger, whom we now know as Pope Benedict XVI, than we can truly imagine or epitomize in journalism.

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• January 13th, 2011Artless Theology And Politicsby Joseph Pearce

  I've recently been in correspondence with a purveyer of religious art with regard to the prospect of featuring the artists he represents in the pages of the Saint Austin Review. I'm omitting the agent's and the artists' names in the interests of decorum but I thought I'd share my response with the visitors to this site

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• January 13th, 2011Ink & Fairydust: A New Literary Initiative For Catholic Teensby Joseph Pearce

  I'm delighted to be able to post information about an exciting new literary initiative for Catholic (girl) teens. This new e-magazine is further evidence of an embryonic and vital literary revival amongst today's Catholics. May it continue to grow and prosper!

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• January 13th, 2011Good News from Dappled Things!by Dena Hunt

  Readers who have not yet become acquainted with the only Catholic literary magazine in the country now have an opportunity to sample its entire contents absolutely free. The publication is celebrating its fifth anniversary and the completion of its gorgeous new website by posting the entire contents of its Fifth Anniversary Commemorative Edition online.

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• January 13th, 2011Romanticizing Chaosby Kevin O'Brien

  In this current issue of the St. Austin Review, there's an article by me in which I mention a leftist I know who's devoted to a notion of what he calls "anarchy". By this he seems to mean not mere disorder and chaos, but the destruction of centralized order, and in its place an atomized order; laws and rules decided from person to person, family to family, clan to clan. In other words, tribalism or what we currently have, say, in the streets of North St. Louis or areas of Mexico where drug lords have replaced central or local governments with their own decentralized rule. Of course it's a rule of brute force - but hey! It's decentralized.

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• January 13th, 2011New Short Film On Newman’s Conversionby Joseph Pearce

  The Theater of the Word's 17-minute long film on the conversion of John Henry Newman, filmed where it took place, at Newman's retreat in Littlemore, England has just been released. Check it out on YouTube:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIhnXs6GxK0

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• January 6th, 2011The Return of Georges Rouaultby Jennifer Pierce

  I'm piecing some ideas together on modernism and modernity as well as secularism and secularity.  It sounds like writing a piece about the difference between blue and azure as someone wittily (or sneeringly--it's hard to tell) claimed I was doing in a debate, but it's just one of my things, you know. 

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• January 6th, 2011Skinny-dipping in Winter Parkby Dena Hunt

  The other day, a neighbor complained that he could never have a good time on New Year’s because he’s allergic to alcohol. His complaint reminded me of Winter Park.

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• January 5th, 2011Downfallby Pavel Chichikov

  Recently, a series of photographs of ruined Detroit was published here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/jan/02/photography-detroit?%2F%3Fpicture=370173054&index=0#/?picture=370173054&index=0

  I feel confident that the images bear their own impact and need little or no commentary. Anyone who looks at them must wonder: What is happening to America?

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• January 5th, 2011New Radio Series On The Ignatius Critical Editionsby Joseph Pearce

  Last month I had the great privilege and pleasure to be interviewed by Kris McGregor for a new radio series dedicated to the Ignatius Critical Editions, of which I am series edtitor. Over the next few days I'll be posting these audio interviews on to this site. Here's the first, on Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights:

  http://www.discerninghearts.com/Pearce/Bronte.mp3

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