On July 29, the 13th annual G.K. Chesterton Pilgrimage will take place in England between London and Beaconsfield, from the church where the British writer was baptized to the town west of the English ...
This is an undated portrait of G.K. Chesterton by Edwin Swan. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an agnostic who converted to Catholicism in 1922 and became one of Catholicism's best-known defenders. (OSV ...
How GKC subverts the subversives. A prophet is never welcome in his own hometown. For a long time after the tumult of the Sixties, G. K. Chesterton’s writings seemed to have lost a welcome anywhere, ...
A big man, physically and intellectually, Gilbert Keith Chesterton finally gets the big book he deserves. Father Ian Ker, who wrote a well-respected biography of Newman, among other books, has ...
“The difficulty of explaining why I am a Catholic,” wrote G.K. Chesterton, “is that there are 10,000 reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.” A related difficulty, especially ...