Mark Shea's Blog: So That No Thought of Mine, No Matter How Stupid, Should Ever Go Unpublished Again!
This Homecoming Queen and the school that roared with gladness at her coronation gives me hope: “There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.” – GK Chesterton The ideal American, held up for us all day long by [...]
The Seattle Chesterton Society is starting up another year this Thursday! Dear Friends of the Seattle G. K. Chesterton Society, We are happy to announce the start of the Chesterton Speaker Series’ new 2012-13 season! Our first event is rapidly approaching next Thursday, October 25, at 7:30 PM at the UW Newman Center. The G. [...]
The Bay Area Chesterton Society writes: We’ve chosen a new book to read for this year at our Bay Area Chesterton Society meetings. It’s called “Father Brown of the Church of Rome” from Ignatius Press and it’s available from both the American Chesterton Society and Amazon. Our first story will be The Chief Mourner of [...]
One of many amazing passages from Chesterton’s beautiful St. Francis of Assisi: The phrase about his brotherhood with the sun and moon, and with the water and the fire, occurs of course in his famous poem called the Canticle of the Creatures or the Canticle of the Sun. He sang it wandering in the meadows [...]
Dear Chestertonian, Time is running out! We have less than one week left to raise another $5,604.93 to meet the $40,000 Chesterton Challenge. If you haven’t done so already, please consider donating today. Any amout will be greatly appreciated and we urgently need your help! Yes! I’d like to donate $1,000 | $500 | $250 [...]
A reader writes: Today’s makers do not even “make” anything. They are Warren Buffets or Mitt Romney’s- folks who are glorified gamblers shuffling money into “best bets.” Most of the folks we are talking about are not Steve Jobs who made things, or Bill Gates who programmed things. The bulk of the real “Makers” are [...]
Dale Ahlquist writes: September 13, 2012 Dear Chestertonians, The American Chesterton Society spreads G.K. Chesterton’s common sense through our television show, our magazine, our books, our web-sites, and our lectures around the country. The Chesterton Challenge is a way for you to not only support these activities, but see your support doubled at the same [...]
When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress. G. K. Chesterton HT: http://www.brutallyhonest.org
Missing woman joins search for herself
Sharon Parker, the organizational genius behind the Reno Chesterton Conference, writes: It was great to have you in Reno for ChesterCon 2012. You may recall that at the banquet I brought my pastor, a Franciscan priest, Fr. Francisco. He and I and some others, both Catholic and Protestant, have started an organization here in Northern [...]
If you respond to this, then that cuts down the chance that I win the freebie trip. But if I don’t post it, I’m not helping the Chesterton Society. So I’ll post it: DEAR CHESTERTONIAN, G.K. Chesterton. Rome. What a great combination. Art, History, Faith, Food, and Fellowship. Time is running out! [...]
Join the Discussions of the Year of Faith
Click here throughout the Year of Faith, as the Catholic Channel at Patheos.com invites Catholics of every age and stripe to share what they are gleaning and carrying away from this gift of timely focus.
Follow Patheos on
Copyright 2008-2013, Patheos. All rights reserved. Terms of Service | Patheos Privacy Policy | Site developed by Avalon Consulting, LLC
Follow Patheos
Catholic: