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GK Chesterton
March 25, 2024
When fishes flew and forests walked    And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood    Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry    And ears like errant wings, The devil’s walking parody    On all four-footed things. The tattered outlaw of the earth,    Of ancient crooked will; Starve, scourge, deride
March 21, 2024
Are we facing our own “1967 moment”? The upcoming threat of total decriminalisation of abortion alongside attempts to legalise euthanasia hovering on the horizon can appear to represent a present-day reiteration of the seismic decision to legalise abortion here in the UK back in 1967. The constant threats to life at its beginning, end and
February 08, 2023
As the Church of England considers reassessing gendered language in reference to God, GK Chesterton's timeless commentary hits the mark
January 02, 2023
Hugh Somerville Knapman on a new volume that delivers a daily dose of detective drama
December 02, 2022
Daniel Frampton seeks festive cheer from the great Catholic apologist and Dickens’ own Ebenezer Scrooge
December 02, 2022
Our editorial team remind us of the enduring merits in Chestertonian thought and literature at Christmas time
August 05, 2021
Richard Ingrams on the truth about the conflicted 
GK Chesterton – and his brush with sainthood
June 30, 2021
Michael de la Bedoyere was the editor of The Catholic Herald and a friend both of G. K. Chesterton’s and his biographer Maisie Ward. Here he reviews the biography, titled simply Gilbert Keith Chesterton, which appeared in early 1944. The full review can be read here. It appeared in the issue of 14 April 1944.  He
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