The three concerns cited by Doyle are that Chesterton lacks a “cult” of local devotion, the lack of a “pattern of personal spirituality” that could be discerned through his writing, and charges of ...

It is a mystery that could have come straight out of a G.K. Chesterton detective story. We have a suspect. We have a priest investigating that suspect. We have a mystery to solve. The suspect is none ...

George Bernard Shaw lived to be 94, dying 70 years ago, in 1950, and was for several decades, along with H. G. Wells, the most influential writer in the world, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature ...

Some historical figures manage to be both famous and obscure. John Newton, the slave trader who wrote “Amazing Grace,” has been boiled down to a perennial sermon illustration. The Earl of Sandwich ...

(RNS) Canonizing the 300-pound cigar-chomping writer would delight his legion of fans but disappoint Jews who say Chesterton was anti-Semitic. CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Christians and Jews are ...

I've been meaning to say something for a while about Adam Gopnik's recent New Yorker essay (not online, unfortunately) on G.K. Chesterton, which I didn't find nearly as excellent as Rod Dreher did.

The slogan on this t-shirt reads: “In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.” — G.K. Chesterton You know your favorite Chestertonian needs that t-shirt. Me, I’m getting ...

Dale Ahlquist is a Minnesota-based Catholic lay apologist who serves as president of the American Chesterton Society and publisher of Gilbert Magazine. He holds a B.A. from Carleton College and an M.A ...