A daily guide to what’s happening in the Catholic Church
Topic: GK Chesterton
Morning Catholic must-reads: 21/12/11
A daily guide to what’s happening in the Catholic Church
Chesterton’s prophetic voice, now increasingly being heard once more, is still relevant to the new age
As a Catholic apologist, Chesterton was Newman’s successor: but his influence extended far beyond the Church
We need constantly to rediscover why the Church is against abortion
Bernard Nathanson discovered ‘the humanity of the unborn baby’: but there’s more to it than that
G K Chesterton, saint of the blogosphere
He loved debate and controversy but at the same time managed to remain magnanimous to his enemy
Mel Gibson may be an alcoholic, a sedevacantist and an anti-Semite – but he has my sympathy
Hollywood has turned against him: he has been dropped from the cast of Hangover 2
‘We have killed history in our country’
Ed West meets Phillip Blond, the admirer of Chesterton who has been described as the Prime Minister’s ‘philosopher king’
Who next, now that Newman has been raised to our altars? It can surely only be G K Chesterton
He was nothing like our traditional idea of what a saint is like: but his time has come
Should Catholics vote to leave the EU in a referendum?
I say, let us depart: Brussels is now the capital of a quasi-imperialist hegemony







Is Pope Francis indeed a member of the Argentinian Chesterton Society? Maybe: but he has surely been inspired by Chesterton’s great work on St Francis
Much will no doubt emerge over the months ahead about the new Pope’s intellectual formation. But if Chesterton were not part of it, I would be astonished