Freedom Without Limits? Why the Modern World Struggles to Say No
COMMENTARY: From Chesterton to Newman, Catholic thinkers have warned that true freedom includes the ability to reject what is destructive.
Results from Tag: 'g.k. chesterton'
Learn to Love Your Neolithic Neighbors
Modern humans should consider the plank in their own eye before presuming to see a mote in the eye of their ‘primitive’ neighbors.
What Would GK Chesterton Have Thought of the Fashionable Fallacies of Our Age?
June 14, 2024, marks the 88th anniversary of Chesterton’s death, but his wit and wisdom lives on.
This Is GK Chesterton’s 150th Birthday — Here’s Why He Remains So Relevant Today
COMMENTARY: The vast scope of his writings means there is always something pertinent to any circumstance.
An Irish Ghost Haunts Hallow
EDITORIAL: Leadership of the popular Catholic app should rethink its poor decision to use pro-abortion actor Liam Neeson to narrate its Advent reflections.
Chesterton and Lewis Taught Me This: Faith and Reason Are Inseparable
Atheists seem to accept their atheism as a matter of faith, not reason. This is not rational but merely wishful thinking.
G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown: ‘The Foulest Crime Feels Lighter After Confession’
COMMENTARY: We’re the one criminal we can catch and keep safe and sane under his own hat by repentance, and we do that especially by repentance enacted in the confessional, and the graces God gives those who confess their sins.
A Handful of Authors — Dickens, Wilde, Lewis, Borges, Greene
Dickens, Wilde, Lewis, Borges and Greene have very little in common, yet they are all held together by the thin thread of Chestertonian brilliance.
Catholics’ Primary Politics
COMMENTARY: How we organize ourselves socially and politically is not a spiritual irrelevance for the Christian and the Gospel does indeed have deep political implications.
Walking with Chesterton and Lewis (and Tolkien)
There are two types of people in the world — hikers and walkers. Lewis is a hiker, whereas Chesterton (and Tolkien) are walkers
