G.K.Chesterton
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"The difficulty of explaining 'why I am a Catholic' is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true. I could fill all my space with separate sentences each …More
"The difficulty of explaining 'why I am a Catholic' is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true. I could fill all my space with separate sentences each beginning with the words, 'It is the only thing that…' As, for instance, (1) It is the only thing that really prevents a sin from being a secret. (2) It is the only thing in which the superior cannot be superior; in the sense of supercilious. (3) It is the only thing that frees a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age. (4) It is the only thing that talks as if it were the truth; as if it were a real messenger refusing to tamper with a real message. (5) It is the only type of Christianity that really contains every type of man; even the respectable man. (6) It is the only large attempt to change the world from the inside; working through wills and not laws; and so on." (G.K. Chesterton, Why I am a Catholic)
mccallansteve
Best the Vatican despises Chesterton because he loved the faith
chris griffin
I cringe whenever a Catholic writer quotes C. S. Lewis instead of Chesterton. Lewis led people away from the one true Catholic Church.
123jussi
And he loved good wine!
Kenjiro M. Yoshimori
Great author and man. Great Catholic. Lucky for him he didn't have to live in the worthless Vatican II era Church, or experience a Pope like Bergoglio.
But I would be willing to bet if he was here, he'd be against Vatican II, and against Bergoglio.