Literary Cosmopolitanism as a Substitute for the Kingship of Christ: A Sedevacantist Dissection of Joseph Pearce’s Confession
The National Catholic Register, a flagship organ of the conciliar sect’s propaganda apparatus, publishes a commentary by Joseph Pearce — a lay apologist ensconced within the neo-church’s academic sinecures at “Ave Maria University” and “Thomas More College” — wherein he offers a sentimental memoir of his “belated appreciation” for American literature. The piece is a masterclass in bourgeois literary dilettantism masquerading as Catholic cultural engagement. It culminates in a self-satisfied endorsement of a “healthy cosmopolitanism” that reveals the author’s thorough assimilation into the spirit of the world, utterly divorced from the regnum Christi proclaimed by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas. This is not the confession of a sinner seeking grace, but the self-justification of a “cultural Catholic” content with the husk of literature while the kernel of the Faith has been discarded by the very structures that employ him.