Memories of a Catholic Wife and Mother

from What is Eugenics? People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. ~ The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. IV, p. 297 ~

from What is Eugenics? People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. ~ The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. IV, p. 297 ~

from The Story of the Vow It is often said by the critics of Christian origins that certain ritual feasts, processions or dances are really of pagan origin. They might as well say that our legs are of pagan origin. Nobody ever disputed that humanity was human before it was Christian; and no Church manufactured…

from The Story of the Vow It is often said by the critics of Christian origins that certain ritual feasts, processions or dances are really of pagan origin. They might as well say that our legs are of pagan origin. Nobody ever disputed that humanity was human before it was Christian; and no Church manufactured…

from The Story of the Family The most vital function [the family] performs, perhaps the most vital function that anything can perform, is that of education; but its type of early education is far too essential to be mistaken for instruction. ~ The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. IV p. 257 ~

from The Story of the Family The most vital function [the family] performs, perhaps the most vital function that anything can perform, is that of education; but its type of early education is far too essential to be mistaken for instruction. ~ The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. IV p. 257 ~

from The Superstition of Divorce It is not hard to see why the vow made most freely is the vow kept most firmly. There are attached to it, by the nature of things, consequences so tremendous that no contract can offer any comparison. There is no contract, unless it be that said to be signed…

from The Superstition of Divorce It is not hard to see why the vow made most freely is the vow kept most firmly. There are attached to it, by the nature of things, consequences so tremendous that no contract can offer any comparison. There is no contract, unless it be that said to be signed…

from What’s Wrong with the World It is quaint that people talk of separating dogma from education. Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It is education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.~ G.K. Chesterton: Collected Works, Volume IV, p. 162 But…