Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Chesterton

  • Thomas Merton on Newman and Chesterton

    The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume Three (1952-1960), p. 374, an excerpt from the entry of 3 February 1960: I have to begin reading Newman, whom without cause I have neglected as though he were, say Chesterton. There is all the difference in the world. At the moment I am much more akin to the…