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Dynamic Orthodoxy and the New Catholic Revival, by Joseph Pearce – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Dynamic Orthodoxy and the New Catholic Revival, by Joseph Pearce

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By Joseph Pearce, Crisis Magazine, May 23, 2026

Joseph Pearce is Visiting Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University and a Visiting Fellow of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (Merrimack, New Hampshire). The author of over thirty books, he is editor of the St. Austin Review, series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions, senior instructor with Homeschool Connections, and senior contributor at the Imaginative Conservative and Crisis Magazine. His personal website is http://www.jpearce.co.

The clear connection between tradition and conversion is of the Holy Spirit, which is the only spirit that can move the world and not be moved by it.

Something weird and wonderful is happening across the globe and is even reaching the grass roots in my own hometown of Greenville, South Carolina. This year, the five Catholic parishes in Greenville (Our Lady of the Rosary, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Mary’s, St. Mary Magdalene, and Prince of Peace) have seen a remarkable 44 percent increase in the number of adults being received into the Church compared to 2025. Something similar is happening across the whole state. The Diocese of Charleston experienced a 27 percent increase in the number of adult converts entering the Church through OCIA.

Having begun at the grass roots, at the local level, let’s look wider afield. …

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