William Kilpatrick, Crisis Magazine: G.K. Chesterton had a knack for anticipating future trends but when, in his 1914 novel The Flying Inn, he anticipated the Islamization of England, it seemed so far out of the realm of possibility that it … Continue reading
While recently reading some of G.K. Chesterton’s written reflections in 19271 shortly after his return from his invited April-May visit to Poland, and then also some of his more abiding insights about the plight and character of Poland almost a … Continue reading
Not long before his widely lamented death on 14 June 1936, G.K. Chesterton had published a fresh collection of his essays, entitled As I Was Saying, an anthology expressing some of his well-pondered judgments after his fourteen fertile and grateful … Continue reading
Through the prompt kindness of a vivid-souled Catholic priest, who is also a contemplative Maronite monk in Massachusetts, I recently received an undated, eleven-page text written by G.K. Chesterton and entitled “Introduction to the Book of Job.” It was, moreover, … Continue reading
In 1932, four years before his death and only ten years after his having entered the Catholic Church, G.K. Chesterton wrote a vivid and capacious book on the medieval Catholic poet, Geoffrey Chaucer (d.1400). With his characteristic modesty, his book … Continue reading
When Hilaire Belloc was a rumbustious young man in his mid-thirties, and only a few years after he had completed his journey afoot to Rome, he wrote an essay entitled “The Idea of a Pilgrimage,” which first appeared in his … Continue reading
Washington Post: Can an Anglican theologian from Britain revive an 80-year-old Catholic social justice theory and provide a solution to America’s economic woes and political polarization? Read full column here.
[Christopher A. Ferrara, The Church and the Libertarian (Minnesota: The Remnant Press, 2010), $25, 383 pp., soft cover.] Since hearing, a few years ago that Chris Ferrara was preparing this book, I have eagerly looked forward to reading it. I … Continue reading
Tom Piatak, writing for Taki Magazine online, comments here on the great naval victory of the Christians over the Mohammedan invaders in the Battle of Lepanto on October 7, 1571. He also provides a link to the magnificent poem, Lepanto, … Continue reading
THIS AUTHOR HAS NOT had the blessing of visiting the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, nor does he ever expect to be given that privilege. Therefore, in describing the miraculous Image I can only relate what has come to … Continue reading
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