The Thing: Why I Am A Catholic

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The moment men cease to pull against it, they feel a tug toward it. The moment they cease to shout it down, they begin to listen to it with pleasure. The moment they try to be fair to it, they begin to be fond of it. It was when the mirthful, insightful British writer G. Chesterton penned these words.

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And he meant them. After being raised in an ostensibly Unitarian household dedicated more to living the golden rule than worshiping the Triune God, Chesterton felt the tug, began to listen and then became fond of the Catholic Church. But what did he find?

What did Chesterton encounter once within the Church he described as "larger on the inside than it is on the outside. The difficulty of explaining "why I am a Catholic" is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: I could fill all my space with separate sentences each beginning with the words, "It is the only thing that The Church does often set herself against the fashion of this world that passes away; and she has experience enough to know how very rapidly it does pass away Would you like to tell us about a lower price?

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G. K. Chesterton on “Why I Am a Catholic”

Chesterton, as a political thinker, cast aspersions on both liberalism and conservatism, saying: The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.

Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify such a position with Catholicism more and more, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism.

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