Return to Chesterton Bourke To survey the history of

To survey the history of the Catholic Church is

understood in an indefinite sense or as somehow experienced

A “disease of the soul

then our faith is vain

and Solemnities and Feasts

Return to Chesterton Bourke To survey the history ofBy Maisie Ward G. K. Chesterton was, in the words of George Bernard Shaw, a man of colossal genius. Fittingly, then, his biography could not be limited to a single work. In 1943, Maisie Ward published what Frances Chesterton called the definitive biography of her husband. Yet its seven hundred plus pages could not comprise the entirety of its subjects life, work, and influencehis genius. Untold quantities of new material arrived for Wards