Tag Archives: G K Chesterton

Death and Daily Laughter

Posted on May 21, 2020 by Randy Coleman-Riese

In 1921 G. K. Chesterton traveled to America for a lecture tour and upon his return wrote of his experiences in a short book entitled “What I Saw in America”. In the introduction Chesterton comments on some of his preconceptions … Continue reading →

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Imagine…a virus stalking through the modern State

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Gil Bailie

On a virus of a different sort, no less mortally lethal and considerably more morally so: About the fate of post-Christian Western cultures G. K. Chesterton cannot be thought overly optimistic. But in one small way – having to do … Continue reading →

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A Lenten Reflection – The Multiplication Table

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Randy Coleman-Riese

The website The Catholic Thing has published a Lenten reflection by Gil Bailie entitled, The Multiplication Table. It is a classic piece of Gil’s work. I especially appreciate the play of the title and the text. ‘Multiplication table’ is not … Continue reading →

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A view of multiculturalism from 1925

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Randy Coleman-Riese

The theory was that a Christian and a Mahometan might learn the same lessons in the same class, on ninety-nine subjects out of a hundred, so long as nobody mentioned Mahomet or mentioned Christ, It seems strange that nobody noticed … Continue reading →

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Orthodoxy and Heresy: Dante’s Paradiso Canto XI

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Randy Coleman-Riese

  St. Dominic and St. Francis, wisdom and love, judgement and non-judgment.   Last and most important, it is exactly this which explains what is so inexplicable to all the modern critics of the history of Christianity. I mean the … Continue reading →

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A Western Koan: Dante’s Paradiso Canto X

Posted on March 19, 2016 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Squaring the Circle – G K Chesterton on Circles and Crosses: As we have taken the circle as the symbol of reason and madness, we may very well take the cross as the symbol at once of mystery and of … Continue reading →

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Progressives, Conservatives and Patriots

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Randy Coleman-Riese

We are proving Chesterton right … again. “The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes being corrected.” … Continue reading →

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Forgetting

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Randy Coleman-Riese

“Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.”   – G. K. Chesterton

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