It is a mystery that could have come straight out of a G.K. Chesterton detective story. We have a suspect. We have a priest investigating that suspect. We have a mystery to solve. The suspect is none ...

Devotees of the English writer and Catholic apologist G.K. Chesterton rejoiced at the news that a Catholic bishop in England is seeking to open an investigation into whether he should be declared a ...

Everyone knows Chesterton was the most celebrated convert of his time. Few know he was a Marian poet who challenges Christians to restore the Blessed Lady to her rightful place in belief and devotion.

(RNS) Canonizing the 300-pound cigar-chomping writer would delight his legion of fans but disappoint Jews who say Chesterton was anti-Semitic. CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Christians and Jews are ...

G. K. Chesterton as Controversialist, Essayist, Novelist and Critic. By John D. Coates. Edwin Mellen Press, 206 pp., $109.95 Chesterton and Evil. By Mark Knight ...

Dale Ahlquist is a Minnesota-based Catholic lay apologist who serves as president of the American Chesterton Society and publisher of Gilbert Magazine. He holds a B.A. from Carleton College and an M.A ...

George Bernard Shaw lived to be 94, dying 70 years ago, in 1950, and was for several decades, along with H. G. Wells, the most influential writer in the world, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The ordinary modern progressive position is that this is a bad universe, but will certainly get better. I say it ...

G K Chesterton achieved fame as the author of the Father Brown detective novels but a campaign to make him a saint is now gathering pace - and provoking a backlash. The writer, whose novels include ...