Issue: Autumn 2024

The Australian Chesterton Society pays tribute to the late Chestertonians – Aidan Mackey in England and Ray Finnegan in Australia.

Karl Schmude reflects on the impact of a Benedictine nun on the spiritual life of George Bernard Shaw, a professed atheist.

Gary Furnell reviews two children’s books by Nancy Brown which feature Gilbert and Frances Chesterton as characters.

Joseph Pearce gives a fresh perspective on Hilaire Belloc as Chesterton’s ‘other brother’.

Gary Furnell considers the secular impatience with time as akin to Chesterton’s analogy of the fence being pulled down before its purpose is known.

Karl Schmude finds new examples of Chesterton’s prediction that modern barbarism would come from over-civilisation rather than the abandonment of civilisation.