under the patronage of St Joseph and St Dominic

By the rivers of Babylon there we sat and wept, remembering Zion;
on the poplars that grew there we hung up our harps. . . Ps 136

Chesterton

I. Some Random Thoughts on Materialism

When G K Chesterton wrote his "Orthodoxy" in 1908, materialism was a fetish of the intelligentia, easy to mock.  How different it is today when every second person you meet is convinced of the materialist thesis.  more

II. The Paradoxes of Christianity

This is a lengthy extract from the chapter bearing this title in G K Chesterton’s "Orthodoxy".  The book was published in 1907, but it has much to say to us 100 years on. more