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Joseph Pearce, Editor of Faith & Culture magazine, has weekly interviews with well-known Catholic authors, speakers, and academics on a variety of topics related to Catholicism.
“’All these things shall be added unto you’ ‘He knoweth that ye have need of these things.’ St. Teresa of Avila says we should not trouble o...
In the present time of trial, Catholics need examples of piety and of the critical exercise of reason. These two complementary excellences a...
Faith&Culture offers this selection from St. Francis de Sales’s Treatise on the Love of God (1616) as part of its ongoing reflection on the...
Faith&Culture offers this selection from St. John Paul II’s Letter to Families (1994) in homage to the incomparable gift that was his pontif...
“Why does opium make us sleep? Because of its soporific power.” So ran Molière’s send-up of self-important Parisian physicians. Sohrab Ahmar...
Ave, gratia plena. Hail, full of grace. Luke 1:28 Throughout the whole world, the ancient Church was of one mind, always addressing the Moth...
“And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him.” St. Thérèse opens her Story of a Soul with a...
“And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’” Mother Tere...
As we approach the fifteenth anniversary of the Augustine Institute, it might well occur to readers of Faith and Culture to ask: why is St....
“But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then yo...
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man na...
Faith&Culture offers this selection from Benedict XVI’s General Audience Address of January 16, 2013 as part of its ongoing reflection on th...
“Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, ‘Why could we not cast it out?’ He said to them, ‘Because of your little faith. For tr...
“And he said to them, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out l...
Faith&Culture offers this selection from St. John Paul II’s apostolic letter Novo Millennio Ineunte (January 6, 2001) as part of its ongoing...
“Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and...
In 1899, Pope Leo XIII issued an apostolic letter, Testem benevolentiae , in which he expressed concern regarding the development of “those...
Our earliest literary record of Christianity in North Africa is a court record. It is very short and straightforward. On July 17, 180, Publi...
With this lovely poem by Belloc in honor of Our Lady, Faith&Culture begins a series of reflections upon the nobility of the human face. Of C...
“And he came to her and said, ‘Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you!’ But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to dis...
This selection is taken from chapters 33-34 of The Life of Saint Benedict by Gregory the Great. St. Benedict (d. 547) is considered the foun...
“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” St. Thérèse of Lisieux uses this gospel passage to...
In 1864, Frédéric Le Play published his magnum opus, Social Reform in France, which offered a comprehensive response to the progressive soci...
The life of St. Francis of Assisi has produced some of the most colorful and inspiring stories in the Catholic tradition. One of the most fa...
“And they went and woke him, saying, ‘Master, Master, we are perishing!” And he awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging waves, and they ce...
“Jesus said, ‘Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for m...
“And they came and said to him, ‘Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone’s opinion. For you are not swayed by appear...
In 1817, Louis de Bonald published a slim volume written in imitation of Blaise Pascal, Pensées Divers, or Thoughts on Various Subjects. The...
He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.” In the first...
Could it be part of a Catholic’s duty to read works of sociology? As a professor of theology most of whose students work as evangelists and...
Now, one should note that many things are set down here about the beatitudes. . . Yet one should know that all complete happiness is include...
“And Jesus went with them. When he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to him, ‘Lord, do not trouble yourself, fo...
Recently, while reading through the book of Exodus, I came to the passage that describes the Israelites receiving the manna from heaven duri...
We need to understand the marvel of the Eucharist—what it is, why it was given, and what is the profit of its celebration: we become one Bod...
A true sacrifice is every work which is done that we may be united to God in holy fellowship, and which has a reference to that supreme good...
“While they were eating, Jesus took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and giving it to his disciples said, ‘Take and eat; this is my body....
Faith & Culture presents an interview with Fr. Daniel P. Moloney, Ph.D., chaplain at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of...
“Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.” In John 5, Jesus heal...
Paganism: Fr. Dwight Longenecker and Joseph Pearce discuss paganism, what it is and what it isn't.
The story of Joan of Arc is preposterous. In what reality could a teenage girl approach the would-be king of her country with an account of...
This excerpt is taken from the ninth chapter of St. Basil the Great’s (c. 330-379) On the Holy Spirit. St. Basil is a doctor of the Church a...
“Jesus answered him, ‘If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with...
His times were such as the Church has never seen before nor since, and such as the world must last long for her to see again; nor peculiar o...
Favourite Poems: In the fourth and final part of a series on a few of Fr. Dwight Longenecker's favourite things, Joseph Pearce asks him abou...
“And behold, a man came up to him, saying, ‘Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?’ And he said to him, ‘Why do you ask me...
Froh erfülle deine Pflicht. It was twenty years ago that I saw this German phrase in needlepoint in an antique shop in the Shenandoah Valley...
Favourite Novels: In the third of a series on a few of Fr. Dwight Longenecker's favourite things, Joseph Pearce asks him about his favourite...
“Hereby do we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments” (1 Jn 2:3). To know God and Christ seems to mean to live under the convict...
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Having resolved from all eternity to give us Jesus through Mary, God...
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Nature and grace together establish an immutable necessity of dying....