The Ball & the Cross & the Bread

February 14, 2010 By

[In Chesterton's novel The Ball and the Cross, old Turnbull, the atheist] starts falling in love with a young Catholic woman named Madeleine. . . she finally talks to him not only about his duel, but about the sacraments: He advanced upon Madeleine with flaming eyes, and almost took her by the two shoulders. “I [...]

Filed Under: Bookchat, Catholicism, Chesterton, Eucharist, Faith Friday

Common Sense 101

February 13, 2010 By

Jesus teaches us, “I tell you truly, anyone who will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, will never enter it.” There is a challenge with Chesterton. The challenge is this: we have to adjust our whole way of thinking when we read him. We are not used to thinking in the [...]

Filed Under: Bookchat, Catholicism, Chesterton, The Fourth Estate

Unexpected? Again?

January 21, 2010 By

They keep using this word, “unexpectedly”. The number of newly-laid off workers seeking jobless benefits unexpectedly rose last week, as the economy recovers at a slow and uneven pace. Unexpectedly! Everything is “unexpected” with these people, unless the President has an R after his name, at which point, no good economic news will go unpunished, [...]

Filed Under: 'Remaking' America, Chesterton, Dumb Democrat moves, Economic woe, The Fourth Estate

A word from Chesterton

January 16, 2010 By

Lumping the wrong things together as evil blurs the lines between right and wrong and leads to chaos. — G. K. Chesterton As I mentioned here, I am against a hard deadline, and my obsession, since Tuesday, with Haiti (there is no word, today, from Ed) has really put me up against a wall. Blogging [...]

Filed Under: Chesterton

Dec 21 The Challenge and The Light

December 21, 2009 By

“The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness, and everyone must choose his side.” — reported last words of G. K. Chesterton Write our Dominican friends: Today, on the shortest day of the year, the liturgy calls Christ the Dayspring, the Radiant Dawn. He truly is the Light which comes bursting into [...]

Filed Under: Advent 2009, Chesterton

Christmas Climate: Lie down and die

December 11, 2009 By

Source The Christmas season is domestic; and for that reason most people now prepare for it by struggling in tramcars, standing in queues, rushing away in trains, crowding despairingly into teashops, and wondering when or whether they will ever get home. I do not know whether some of them disappear forever in the toy department [...]

Filed Under: Advent 2009, Bloodless Coup, Chesterton, Christians in Exile, Crisis & Opportunity, Crooks and Liars, Culture of Life/Death, Domestic Terrorism, Erosion of Rights, Faith, Freedom of Worship, Hoo-Hah & BS, Nanny Statism, Secularism, Socialism doesn't work, The Perpetual Adolescents

Advent: Bailey, Roarke and Us

December 4, 2009 By

One of the best things about this season is that, invariably, someone writes about It’s A Wonderful Life, and muses on the complex, sometimes dark character of George Bailey. Portrayed so perfectly by the perpetually likable James Stewart, it is easy to miss the fact that George Bailey is not a simple and good-natured cornpone [...]

Filed Under: American Genius, Chesterton, Economic woe, Philosophy, The Perpetual Adolescents, TV/Pop Culture/Music