Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Mass is Tiresome?

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Eating, Drinking and Praying — G.K. Chesterton and Christmas

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Joseph Pearce in the National Catholic Register - Eating, Drinking and Praying — G.K. Chesterton and Christmas| National Catholic Register ...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

The Man Who Love Christmas

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(I have been writing a book called Santa's Diary . One of the entries deals with a familiar fellow.)  The question I dealt with yesterda...
Saturday, December 18, 2021

Rereading

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C.S. Lewis observed in - Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories : “An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We ...
Friday, December 10, 2021

Chesterton: Advent waiting is a gift

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Freelance writer  Shemaiah Gonzalez has a wonderful take on Advent, using Chesterton as a focus ("Chesterton: Advent waiting is a gift...
Friday, December 03, 2021

Dr. Seuss Clerihew

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Dr. Seuss was fond of tippling fermented mulberry juice. This helps to explain a thing or thing two, such as that cat's hat and Horton...
Friday, November 26, 2021

Dostoevsky - Friend?

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  Should  Fyodor Dostoevsky be counted as one of the "Friends"? In reviewing a book about Dostoevsky, Chesterton once wrote: ...
Monday, November 22, 2021

The Chronicles of Narnia Saved My Faith!

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  On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. That tragedy naturally dominated the headlines, so it's no surprise ...
Sunday, November 21, 2021

C.S.Lewis and Fairy Tales

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“Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” - C.S. Lewis
Saturday, November 20, 2021

Belloc on Political and Economic Freedom

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Friday, November 19, 2021

Progress?

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  “Never perhaps since the beginning of the world has there been an age that had less right to use the word “progress” than we.”   - G. K. ...
Friday, November 05, 2021

We could use a man like Chesterton today ...

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  "One of the most important cultural figures in the last century was G.K. Chesterton; an astonishingly prolific writer, speaker and de...
Friday, October 29, 2021

An Amateur Blogger

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 At the most recent Rochester Chesterton Conference I bought a copy of  Chesterton In Black and White. The book is a collection of early (1...
Thursday, October 21, 2021

Books about Distributism

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On social media earlier this day, I came across a post asking for advice about books that explained distributism, especially ones that might...
Saturday, October 16, 2021

Black and White and Chesterton

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  At the Rochester Chesterton conference I picked up a copy of  Chesterton in Black and White . It's a collection of previously uncollec...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

C. S. Lewis and change

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  “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” - C. S. LEWIS
Saturday, September 25, 2021

The Fr. Leo Hetzler (Rochester Chesterton) Conference

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After a two-year covid pause, Rochester hosted its 17th Chesterton Conference - now called the Fr. Leo Hetzler Conference in honor of the la...
Thursday, September 23, 2021

Mystery Clerihews

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G. K . Chesterton, with Father Brown and The Detection Club, certainly plays an important tole in the history of mystery stories. I am a fan...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

A Chesterton hymn that fits our times

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O God of earth and altar O God of earth and altar, bow down and hear our cry, our earthly rulers falter, our people drift and die; the wall...
Friday, September 17, 2021

Live like a Hobbit? Some hobbits approve!

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  'Lord of the Rings' actors voice their support of Italian pastry chef's plan to build a Hobbit-inspired pub and solar-powered ...