Speaking about Chesterton

In 1929, G.K. Chesterton traveled to Rome to attend the beatification of the English Martyrs, while there he had private audiences with both Mussolini and Pope Pius XI. 

From the Hotel Hassler at the top of the Spanish Steps, he had one of the best views of the city. For a man who never was at a loss of words, it seems it was hard for him to describe the Eternal City, however, he wrote and reflected on his time in room in his book ...

Welcome to Speaking About Chesterton. In this episode of our Series Chesterton around the world, Dr. Dermot Quinn and I will speak about Chesterton and France. We will discuss Chesterton’s writings and thoughts of France and the French people.

France was the first country he visited as a young man in 1892 with his father at the age of 18. After this first trip, he writes that he was “grateful for seeing France as a young man as a t...

Welcome to Speaking About Chesterton. In this episode of our Series Chesterton around the world, Dr. Dermot Quinn and I will speak about Chesterton and Poland.

Chesterton visited Poland in 1927.

In 1976, almost half-a-century after the visit, Father Ian Boyd at his lecture at the Catho...

Welcome to Episode 2 of our series: Chesterton around the World.

In today’s episode we will speak with Professor Dermot Quinn about “Chesterton and Ireland”.

Chesterton travelled to Ireland for the first time in 1918, while there he wrote a series of articles for the New Witness that w...

Welcome to our new series “Chesterton Around the World.”  For the next 5 episodes, Gloria Garafulich-Grabois, director of the G.K. Chesterton Institute and professor Dermot Quinn, editor of The Chesterton Review will speak about Chesterton and various countries—starting with England, the country of his birth. In later episodes we will explore Chesterton and Ireland, Chesterton and Poland, Chesterton and...

In today’s episode we will be discussing Chesterton’s 1908 book Orthodoxy. The chapters we are going to cover are:

                             Chapter 1:         Introduction - “In Defence of Everything Else”

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Chapter 2:         “The Maniac”

Facilitator: D...

In today’s episode we will be discussing the following chapters of G.K. Chesterton’s book Heretics:

“The Importance of Orthodoxy” (chapter 1)

“Christmas and the Aesthetes” (chapter 6)

“On Sandals and Simplicity” (chapter 10)

“On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family” (ch...