Just as G.K. Chesterton says that every city is built over a volcano, it seems that every year is tumultuous. But 2022 somehow managed to end rather quietly, and it was fitting that it ended with the quiet death of the humble, holy man who once led the Catholic Church. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI closed …
Essays from The Daily News, May-October, 1913
Essays from The New Witness, 1912-1913
Essays from The Eye-Witness
Essays from The Daily Herald, 1891-1893
Essays from Black and White, 1903-1904
Essays from The Daily Herald
Essays from The Speaker
Introductions to Books about Religion, Philosophy, and Society
Introductions to Poetry, Plays, and Novels
Introductions to Books About Places
Introductions to Books About People
Chesterton’s Unwritten Book on Savonarola
More Books that Chesterton Wanted to Write but Never Did
Books Chesterton Wanted to Write but Never Did
Essays from The Daily News, 1912-1913
Essays from The Daily News, October, 1910 – December, 1911
Essays from The Daily News, July 1909 – September 1910
Essays from The Daily News, January, 1908 – June, 1909
Essays from The Daily News, July 1906 – December 1907
Essays from The Daily News, 1905-June 1906
Essays from The Daily News, 1903-1904
Chesterton’s Essays from The Daily News, 1901-1902
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1935-1936 (the final columns)
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1932-1934
The Final Volume of Chesterton’s Collected Poetry
Chesterton’s Collected Poetry
Chesterton’s Writings on the Subjects of War and Peace
Chesterton’s Long-Lost First Novel
Chesterton’s Witty Replies to Holbrook Jackson
Volume 1 of Chesterton’s Collected Poetry
A Collection of Chesterton’s Short Stories and More
A Collection of Chesterton’s Short Stories and More
A Collection of Chesterton’s Short Stories and More
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1929-1931
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1926-1928.
A Lost – and Found – Father Brown story.
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1923-1925
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1920-1922.
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1917-19
[mp_row] [mp_span col=”8″] [mp_row_inner] [mp_span_inner col=”12″] [mp_heading margin=”none,none,none,none”] The life of Frances Chesterton, wife of English author G.K. Chesterton. [/mp_heading] [/mp_span_inner] [/mp_row_inner] [mp_row_inner] [mp_span_inner col=”12″] [mp_code margin=”15,none,none,none”] In The Woman Who Was Chesterton, Nancy Carpentier Brown combs through the fascinating life of Frances Chesterton, wife of the famous English author G.K. Chesterton. The first biography of …
Meet the Staff Dale Ahlquist | President A renowned G.K. Chesterton scholar and speaker, Dale Ahlquist is the host of EWTN’s The Apostle of Common Sense. He is the author of G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense, Common Sense 101: Lessons from G.K. Chesterton, The Complete Thinker, and All Roads: Roamin’ Catholic Apologetics. Dale is a regular columnist …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JOUSTING WITH THE DEVIL | CHESTERTON’S BATTLE WITH THE FATHER OF LIES G.K. Chesterton believed in the Devil before he believed in God. “This book explores G.K. Chesterton’s encounter with the reality that is Satan. Whether or not you are familiar with Chesterton, you will be surprised at how familiar Chesterton is …
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[mp_row] [mp_span col=”12″] [mp_heading margin=”none,none,none,none”] ACS BOOKS [/mp_heading] [/mp_span] [/mp_row] [mp_row] [mp_span col=”12″] [mp_row_inner] [mp_span_inner col=”12″ classes=” motopress-space”] [mp_space margin=”none,none,none,none”] [/mp_span_inner] [/mp_row_inner] [mp_row_inner] [mp_span_inner col=”6″] [mp_text margin=”none,none,none,none”] ACS Books is the publishing division of The American Chesterton Society. Our objective is to print books grounded in the tradition of the English writer, G.K. Chesterton with a broad scope covering …
The American Chesterton Society (ACS) works tirelessly to promote the writings and ideas of G.K. Chesterton. We have operated on the simple principle that exposing Chesterton to as many people as possible in as many ways as possible will contribute to a renewal of culture.
[mp_row] [mp_span col=”8″] [mp_row_inner] [mp_span_inner col=”12″] [mp_heading margin=”none,none,none,none”] The Catechism of Hockey [/mp_heading] [/mp_span_inner] [/mp_row_inner] [mp_row_inner] [mp_span_inner col=”12″] [mp_code margin=”15,none,none,none”] Why does hockey have so many rules? Do we still need to have penalty boxes? Can’t we get rid of offside? And why is practice so important? What’s the big deal with the Commissioner? And …
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[mp_row] [mp_span col=”9″] [mp_row_inner] [mp_span_inner col=”12″] [mp_heading margin=”none,none,none,none”] G.K. Chesterton believed in the Devil before he believed in God. [/mp_heading] [/mp_span_inner] [/mp_row_inner] [mp_row_inner] [mp_span_inner col=”12″] [mp_code margin=”15,none,none,none”] In this follow-up to his earlier book The Tumbler of God: Chesterton as Mystic, Fr. Robert Wild explores G.K. Chesterton’s fascinating duel with Satan, both on paper and in his …
by Dale Ahlquist
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1914-1916
Collected Nonsense Verse
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1911-1913
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1908-1910
Essays from The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907
Stories with a Supernatural Element
A Chesterton Anthology
QUESTION: Is there any truth to the accusation that G.K. Chesterton was anti-Semitic? ANSWER: For those of us who love Chesterton, we are always distressed to see him falsely accused of something vile. But we have gotten a little tired of the charge of anti-Semitism. He has been absolved of that charge too many times for …
A Collection of Chesterton’s Writings on Christmas
It strikes some readers as strange that Chesterton, a highly respected literary critic, could take seriously the lowly detective story. But he did take it seriously.
“The horror of war,” Chesterton wrote, “is the sentiment of a Christian and even of a saint.”
Chesterton wrote that if he had just one sermon to preach, it would be a sermon against the sin of pride.
It was quite clear to Chesterton that having a job might make a woman independent of husbands and families, but it also made them dependent on employers, dependent on wage-earning, and servants to a business as most men already were.
Hudge and Gudge, Big Government and Big Business (and sometimes Sludge–Big Science) overstep their bounds and interfere with the average family, whom Chesterton calls the Jones family.
If heredity and environment account for all crimes, Chesterton argued, then law enforcement would become focused on certain types of people (perhaps the poor) and in certain neighborhoods (perhaps the slums). Chesterton was opposed to such views.
Chesterton called plain folks “the million masks of God” and praised them for their common sense, common decency, and their humble institutions: hearth and home, the family, the church, and the pub.
Each politician has a portfolio of solutions to major problems as if he were a physician with a black bag full of pills.
If there is a spiritual presence in the material world, physical science will not discover it; and if we discover it, physical science will have no idea of what it means.
Chesterton argues against the theory of scientific determinism: that a man’s life is determined for him by factors beyond his control, be they the environment, heredity, or a host of other external forces that play upon him.
Puritans argue against the goodness of creation, finding the source of evil in material things of pleasure (as tobacco, alcohol, art, and so on) rather than in the disordered human will to misuse the good things nature affords us.
Liberty, Chesterton argued, is merely the right to choose between one set of limitations and another. It is limitations, he wrote, that create “all the poetry and variety of life.”
Unlike the pleasure-seeking hedonists, Chesterton believed in the reality of sin. Unlike the prohibition-minded Puritans, he believed in enjoying God’s pleasures to the full.
Chesterton urges people to judge the world and themselves not by the way things are, but by the way they ought to be.
Chesterton reminds us that the end purpose of work is a product, not a wage, and that all the exchanges in which people exploit one another, both socially and financially, are also opportunities for people to dignify one another.
A Collection of Essays from Various Sources
Chesterton’s Writings on the Bard
A Collection of Essays from Various Sources
A Collection of Previously Uncollected Chesterton Material
A Book of Catholic Apologetics
Essays from The Daily News
Essays from The Illustrated London News
Literary Essays
Chesterton’s Best Play
A Collection of Essays from Various Sources
Essays from G.K.’s Weekly that Prophesied World War II
A Collection of Poems, Drawings, and Stories
Detective Stories Featuring Mr. Pond
Chesterton’s Final Book
Chesterton’s Ghost-Written Book About an Explorer in New Guinea
Essays from The Illustrated London News
The Sequel to “The Thing”
The Final Collection of the Padre Problem-Solver
Essays from The Illustrated London News
The Best Book Ever Written on St. Thomas Aquinas
Essays from The Illustrated London News
Chesterton’s Account of Attending the World Eucharistic Conference in 1932
Essays that Include Accounts of Chesterton’s Second Trip to America
Literary Criticism About One of the Giants of English Literature
Essays from The Illustrated London News
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