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  • Chesterton: Why Catholic?

    It is Wednesday, and it seems about the right time for a little Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Today, I am posting an essay Chesterton wrote in 1926 which is titled, Why I Am a Catholic. I like the bit in the middle where he describes the Church as a kind of safety net which surrounds the playground of life (paraphrase). Enjoy! Additionally, today, the Church…

  • Modern Elfland

    It is snowing across much of the United States, and the cold is forcing many to take shelter in their homes. So, grab a hot cup of coffee, and cozy up with this delightful verse, a hail to domesticity, by the great English Catholic writer G.K. Chesterton, titled: Modern Elfland, circa, 1927: I cut a staff in a churchyard copse,I clad…

  • The Miraculous World

    “What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.”   G. K. Chesterton As the days move closer to that Great Day, I have thought of the Charles Dickens book, A Christmas Carol, and must, today, come what may, look around the book shelves,…

  • Thanksgiving and the Uncongenial Family

    “If we were tomorrow morning snowed up in the street in which we live, we should step suddenly into a much larger and much wilder world than we have ever known. And it is the whole effort of the typically modern person to escape from the street in which he lives.”  -G.K. Chesterton In the United States we are gearing…

  • The Box of Life

    “When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.” ― G.K. Chesterton, from What’s Wrong with the World  If you walk into an old Roman Catholic Church, you will see large wooden structures that look like upright boxes, known as confessionals. In such confessionals, generations of our Catholic ancestors have faced…