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<\/a>Joseph Pearce and I flew from Greenville to Minneapolis yesterday to take part in the annual Chesterton Conference<\/a> at University of St Thomas. This shindig gets bigger each year. Organizer, Dale Ahlquist reckons there will be over 600 people attending from all over the world.<\/p>\n
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Last night those of us who are speakers got together at Dale\u2019s home for a steak dinner\u2013one of the conference traditions. It was good to see William Oddie again. William is a former Anglican priest, a journalist, former editor of London\u2019s Catholic Herald <\/span>and has a new book on Chesterton coming out this year. I used to write regularly for William when I lived in England, so it was great to see an old friend again.<\/div>\n
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One of the things William is famous for is promoting the idea that there should be a cause for canonization started for Chesterton. William (who is not a small person) proclaimed with Chestertonian rumbustiousness that we \u2018need more fat saints.\u2019<\/div>\n
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More from the conference later.<\/div>\n
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PS: I tried to post an excerpt from my address to the conference here, but when I cut and pasted from my document it went into a box at the bottom of the blogger page rather than in the blogger post composition window. If any of you techies out there can tell me how to cut and paste into a blog post, I\u2019ll try again.<\/div>\n
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