Speaking about Chesterton

Speaking about Chesterton

“Imagining the World with Leaders Rooted in Chestertonian Ideals” This podcast of the G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture at Seton Hall University explores the thought and writings of G. K. Chesterton

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December 18, 2025 53 mins

On October 21st, the Catholic Studies Program and the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture  presented a special event at Seton Hall University on "Pope Leo XIV,” — a lecture by Christopher R. Altieri on Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, who is now Pope Leo XIV. 

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Today's podcast is the second of a series of two, entitled "Chesterton and the Two Leos." The Leos in question are Pope Leo XIII (who was pope from 1878 to 1903) and Pope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost, originally from Chicago and then a missionary in Peru, who was elected pope earlier this year and who will be with us, we hope, for many years to come).    In today’s episode Gloria Garafulich-Grabois and professor Dermot Quinn will speak ...

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November 7, 2025 28 mins

Today's podcast is the first of a series of two, entitled "Chesterton and the Two Leos." The Leos in question are Pope Leo XIII (who was pope from 1878 to 1903) and Pope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost, originally from Chicago and then a missionary in Peru, who was elected pope earlier this year and who will be with us, we hope, for many years to come).   

In today’s episode Gloria Garafulich-Grabois and professor Dermot Quinn will speak a...

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Welcome to a new episode of “Speaking about Chesterton” – the podcast of the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture at Seton Hall University.

In today’s episode, Mrs. Gloria Garafulich-Grabois and Professor Dermot Quinn will speak about the upcoming publication of the Chesterton Institute entitled “An Earthly Story with a Heavenly Meaning”—Father Boyd’s Essays on G.K. Chesterton.

Father Ian Boyd was an internationally re...

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Welcome to a new episode of “Speaking about Chesterton” – the podcast of the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture at Seton Hall University.

Today’s episode “Elizabeth Ann Seton meets G.K. Chesterton,” was presented a part of Seton Hall University’s 2025 Charter Day celebrations  by the  G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith and Culture  and the Center for Catholic Studies.

A thought-provoking discussion on the state of C...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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The dramatic reading tells the story of the fastidious friendship of two remarkable men, G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc. We encounter their youthful and engaging good humor, their personal devotion to their wives, the fighting tone of their journalistic and political conflicts, their hesitant thoughtfulness about the state of their own souls, and the gallant stance both took in the face of overwhelming odds

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December 23, 2024 26 mins

"The adventure of being born" --the G.K. Chesterton Institute the celebration of the 150th anniversary of G.K. Chesterton's Birth-- a conversation with Dermot Quinn and Gloria Garafulich-Grabois

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In this episode we will discuss:

The House of Christmas, Anti-Christ, or the Reunion of Christendom: an Ode and The Secret People

 

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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...

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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...

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In today’s episode we will be discussing the following: G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown Stories from The Innocence of Father Brown:

“The Blue Cross”

“The Secret Garden”

Facilitator: Dr. Dermot Quinn

Introduction: Gloria Garafulich-Grabois

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