The Dispatch
Robert Hugh Benson’s otherworldly stories illuminate the nature of prayer
Reminiscent at times of the fiction of George MacDonald, Benson’s stories range from beautiful to macabre. […]
G.K. Chesterton
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God and Disney and G.K. Chesterton
We are happy only when we worship the Maker of heaven and earth. […]
Features
Making a Saint: A status report on the Cause for Chesterton
Though holiness is rare thing, it is not a narrow thing. But people have a narrow idea of sainthood, and Chesterton generally doesn’t fit. […]
Books
An insightful detective story reaffirming the value of every single life
Fiorella De Maria’s second Father Gabriel mystery, The Vanishing Woman, goes beyond the simplicity of much crime-fiction to offer a portrait of the long-term costs of war. […]
Essay
High-placed Shadows and the Summer of 2018
Does the Church still grow young as the world grows old? […]
Books
Larry Norman: Left Behind
My late brother-in-law was largely responsible for creating “Contemporary Christian Music”. He loved Jesus and he introduced me to Chesterton, but the thing he didn’t understand […]
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Lay Evangelization and the “smell of the sheep”
Is there anything new under the sun? Or is there anything even real? What if the Evangelists for the incarnate Son of God are actually […]
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Going “further up and further in” to Narnia with Joseph Pearce
“In reading The Chronicles of Narnia,” says the prolific biographer and critic, “we find ourselves in the presence of great and necessary truths.” […]
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Murdered by a Machine
Chesterton saw it coming. Official control means the loss of parental control. Its gone from the classroom to the hospital room. […]
Columns
Sanity and the Church
Cultural radicalism rejects tradition, and therefore rejects everything except immediate impressions, abstract ideology, and naked will. That’s no way to build anything solid, let alone […]