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As he says, you cannot chip away at a statue of Mother and Child and leave only the Child; it is impossible to think of Jesus without thinking of His Mother.<\/p>\n<p>Chesterton seems to have pondered conversion for at least fourteen years, from 1908 and the writing of\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">Orthodoxy<\/span>\u00a0to 1922 when he converted to Catholicism. He obviously did not convert on a whim. When Chesterton spoke about the things that most make a Catholic a Catholic, he seemed to always pick two controversial ideas: praying to the saints and honoring the Mother of God. But he understood Mary\u2019s place in the divine plan long before he was Catholic; loving her from his childhood. Once Catholic, his understanding only deepened.<\/p>\n<p>But he was reluctant to speak of these personal things. Could the man who had something to say about nearly everything find it difficult to speak about his own personal feelings regarding faith and conversion? He says it is so. But the hints are there. We must dig to find those hints.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-italic\">Chesterton and Our Lady<\/span>\u00a0encourages you to look with new eyes at his words and stories to see a man deeply devoted to God, to Jesus, and to Our Lady, Mother of God, the Virgin who calls him, who lights the way, who leads him to the Babe whom he seeks in the Stable at the End of the World. \u201cThis is Himself,\u201d says Mary to Chesterton \u2014 and to us \u2014 holding the Blessed Baby in her arms, showing Him to us, \u201cand He is the one you\u2019ll be wanting at the last.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-italic\">Chesterton and Our Lady<\/span>\u00a0includes essays by:<\/p>\n<p>Karl Schmude, President of the Australian Chesterton Society and founder of the Classical Catholic Campion College; author of the Catholic Truth Society\u2019s edition of\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">G.K. 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