Chesterton's

Or how about this, echoing Chesterton's remark that the greatest scandal of the Catholic Church are Catholics?

Abortion 2009

I have always admired G.K. Chesterton's dictum that if something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly, but I never appreciated the full scope of its application until reading John Derbyshire's recent review of Ben Stein's "Expelled" at National Review Online.

ID/Evolution 2009

Over at Mark Shea's blog, Shea discusses a copy of G.K. Chesterton's Everlasting Man, which in a 2008 edition includes the warning that, This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today.

Book Warning Labels 2009

C.S. Lewis thought that Chesterton's analogy captured the heart of the best sort of patriotism: Just as a man who loves his mother will persevere in his affections whatever becomes of her, "a man who truly loves his country will love her in her ruin and degeneration."

The Trials of Devotion 2011

This adding of a label to Chesterton's book reminds me of some conversations I've had, during which certain people felt justified in completing my sentences for me in order to make me sound like a dunderhead.

Book Warning Labels 2009

Over at Mark Shea's blog, Shea discusses a copy of G.K. Chesterton's Everlasting Man, which in a 2008 edition includes the warning that, This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

This adding of a label to Chesterton's book reminds me of some conversations I've had, during which certain people felt justified in completing my sentences for me in order to make me sound like a dunderhead.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

Taking Chesterton's essay as a starting point, we may agree with the USCCB reviewer who says the film "need not be taken seriously."

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

Taking Chesterton's essay as a starting point, we may agree with the USCCB reviewer who says the film "need not be taken seriously."

Movie Review: Drag Me to Hell 2009

And I could not but grin when the Paste Board Crown smote me on the head, while the puppy was knocked gasping with Chesterton's What's Wrong with the World?

CHAPTER XXX 2010