Are you on vacation yet? The funny thing about vacations is that when on holiday from the world, and from the pressures of time, it’s quite easy to see all manner of things through rose colored glasses. In fact, I would go so far as to say that everything is better when one is on vacation, be it food, music, company, or conversation. Have you noticed this too? The phenomenon is what leads me to believe vacations are a foretaste of eternal life in heaven. [Read more…]
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Remember that time when Chesterton showed up in Breitbart? This is even better than that. Even the subtitle of the piece says, “this author loves Chesterton.”
The case for canonizing G. K. Chesterton, the bombastic man of letters and paradoxical militant for God
See? More from James Parker’s article, A Most Unlikely Saint, [Read more…]
Conversation Piece (G. K. Chesterton; Maurice Baring; Hilaire Belloc), by Herbert James Gunn
What? There is a third person in the Chesterbelloc? George Bernard Shaw forgot someone? Exactly, dear reader.
See the portrait above? Surely you recognize the heavyset fellow on the left, and the irascible looking fellow on the right. But who is the tall guy in the center? That would be Maurice Baring, the friend G.B. Shaw forgot. [Read more…]
Times are tough all over. First we had the economic meltdown to contend with. Now we Catholics are watching our Church and our Pope get attacked by the same people who were attacking Goldman Sachs a few years ago, and Tiger Woods back in the day. Are the attacks justified? Where you sit is probably where you stand. But the fact of the matter is, the storm has been raging since day one on planet Earth. [Read more…]
Destroyed town in northwest France, summer 1944
Frank Scherschel—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Pope Francis remembers, and is grateful.
Francis praised “the numerous soldiers who left their country to land on the beaches of Normandy to fight against Nazi barbarism and free occupied France”.
The Vatican said Francis “also does not forget the German soldiers dragged into this drama, like all victims of war”.
Though written long before the invasion of Normandy, G.K. Chesterton’s thoughts from his book, Orthodoxy
“Take the case of courage. [Read more…]
A couple of years back, I shared a movie with you about a saint who called himself “God’s jackass.” Leave it to G.K. Chesterton to write a poem for Palm Sunday from the point of view of the ass. [Read more…]
The 33rd Annual Chesterton Conference will be held at University of Saint Mary of the Lake (Mundelein Seminary) in Mundelein, Illinois, from July 31-August 2, 2014. Hmmm. That’s where Fr. Robert Barron and the Word on Fire gang hang their hats. [Read more…]
Who knew?
I think so. I mean, look at the name on the label. Lepanto? As in the Battle of Lepanto?
Uh-huh. [Read more…]
I’m where you least expect me to be. Huzzah!
I’d count it as a minor one, at least. Take a look at Kate O’Hare’s piece, G.K. Chesterton: Making the Case for Sainthood in Hollywood.
Or is it “Farewell My Lovely?” Those are the titles that came to my mind as I read his essay today over at Commonweal.
No disrespect to Raymond Chandler intended for thinking of his titles, but I will never get back the hour I lost reading Bottums’ essay, where he makes his personal case for coming out in favor of Same Sex Marriage, or of not fighting it anymore. [Read more…]
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