Speaking about Chesterton

This episode is a conversation with Professor Edmund Lazzari, who is Assistant Professor of Catholic Studies at Duquesne University, and researcher specializing in Archbishop Fulton Sheen. Chesterton was a great influence in Sheen’s literary and intellectual work, shaping his style to the use of paradox and his approach to Catholic apologetics. Sheen asked Chesterton to write the Preface to his fi...

About our guest: Timothy is Vice President of External and Government Relations for Focus on the Family in Washington DC. Formerly, he served as a special assistant to President George W. Bush as the deputy director of the White House Office of Public Liaison.  Tim’s extensive resumé includes serving a decade as press secretary to United States Senator Dan Coats of Indiana; as a senior fellow at T...

In this episode we will continue our conversation in which we look at "America's 250th birthday." In our previous episode, we agreed that Chesterton thought that a birthday was worth celebrating, first because he liked birthdays of all kinds, secondly because patriotism was what he called a "primary loyalty"--something that came naturally to people like being part of a family. But is that all? Is...

In this episode we look at a notable milestone--the 250th birthday of the United States of America. It comes at a troubled time in world history and, in some ways, in the history of the United States itself. In this conversation with professor Dermot Quinn we will address the question: "What would Chesterton make of it all?"

Welcome to the second of our mini-series devoted to "Chesterton and Science,"--a big subject, of course, but it is one which is often ignored, possibly because it doesn't seem very Chestertonian. But we agreed in the last conversation about the subject, that this importance should not be overlooked.

Today’s episode is the recording of the presentation of the Chesterton Institute’s special publication of a collection of essays on Chesterton by the internationally renowned scholar, Father Ian Boyd, founder of the Institute. The episode includes an introduction by Sarah Ponichtera, Assistant Dean Special Collections and Gallery; opening remarks by Gloria Garafulich-Grabois, director of the Insti...

Welcome to a new episode of our podcast “Speaking about Chesterton.” In today’s episode we will speak about “Chesterton and Science.” It is an unusual subject because we do not often associate Chesterton with science, and because he did not have any formal training or particular expertise on the subject. In his “Autobiography” he wrote: “It is true that I could never be called a scientific charact...

On October 21st, the  Catholic Studies Program  and the  G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture   presented a special event at Seton Hall University on "Pope Leo XIV,” — a lecture by Christopher R. Altieri on Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, who is now Pope Leo XIV. 

Today's podcast is the second of a series of two, entitled "Chesterton and the Two Leos." The Leos in question are Pope Leo XIII (who was pope from 1878 to 1903) and Pope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost, originally from Chicago and then a missionary in Peru, who was elected pope earlier this year and who will be with us, we hope, for many years to come).    In today’s episode Gloria Garafulich-Grabois and...

Today's podcast is the first of a series of two, entitled "Chesterton and the Two Leos." The Leos in question are Pope Leo XIII (who was pope from 1878 to 1903) and Pope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost, originally from Chicago and then a missionary in Peru, who was elected pope earlier this year and who will be with us, we hope, for many years to come).    In today’s episode Gloria Garafulich-Grabois and...

Welcome to a new episode of “Speaking about Chesterton” – the podcast of the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture at Seton Hall University. In today’s episode, Mrs. Gloria Garafulich-Grabois and Professor Dermot Quinn will speak about the upcoming publication of the Chesterton Institute entitled “An Earthly Story with a Heavenly Meaning”—Father Boyd’s Essays on G.K. Chesterton. Father...

Welcome to a new episode of “Speaking about Chesterton” – the podcast of the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture at Seton Hall University. Today’s episode “Elizabeth Ann Seton meets G.K. Chesterton,” was presented a part of Seton Hall University’s 2025 Charter Day celebrations  by the   G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith and Culture  and the Center for Catholic Studies. A thought-pr...

In 1929,  G.K.   Chesterton  traveled to Rome to attend the beatification of the English Martyrs, while there he had private audiences with both Mussolini and Pope Pius XI.  From the Hotel Hassler at the top of the Spanish Steps, he had one of the best views of the city. For a man who never was at a loss of words, it seems it was hard for him to describe the Eternal City, however, he wrote and ref...

Welcome to Speaking About Chesterton. In this episode of our Series Chesterton around the world, Dr. Dermot Quinn and I will speak about Chesterton and France. We will discuss Chesterton’s writings and thoughts of France and the French people. France was the first country he visited as a young man in 1892 with his father at the age of 18. After this first trip, he writes that he was “grateful for...

Welcome to Speaking About Chesterton. In this episode of our Series Chesterton around the world, Dr. Dermot Quinn and I will speak about Chesterton and Poland.   Chesterton visited Poland in 1927.   In 1976, almost half-a-century after the visit, Father Ian Boyd at his lecture at the Catholic University in Lublin remarks: “Chesterton’s admiration for Poland scarcely requires and explanation. Like...

Welcome to Episode 2 of our series: Chesterton around the World.   In today’s episode we will speak with Professor Dermot Quinn about “Chesterton and Ireland”.   Chesterton travelled to Ireland for the first time in 1918, while there he wrote a series of articles for the New Witness that were then published in his 1919 book entitled Irish Impressions. In the book he writes,   “I went to Ireland at...

Welcome to our new series “Chesterton Around the World.”  For the next 5 episodes, Gloria Garafulich-Grabois, director of the G.K. Chesterton Institute and professor Dermot Quinn, editor of The Chesterton Review will speak about Chesterton and various countries—starting with England, the country of his birth. In later episodes we will explore Chesterton and Ireland, Chesterton and Poland, Chestert...

The dramatic reading tells the story of the fastidious friendship of two remarkable men, G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc. We encounter their youthful and engaging good humor, their personal devotion to their wives, the fighting tone of their journalistic and political conflicts, their hesitant thoughtfulness about the state of their own souls, and the gallant stance both took in the face of ove...

"The adventure of being born" --the G.K. Chesterton Institute the celebration of the 150th anniversary of G.K. Chesterton's Birth-- a conversation with Dermot Quinn and Gloria Garafulich-Grabois

In this episode we will discuss: The House of Christmas, Anti-Christ, or the Reunion of Christendom: an Ode and The Secret People  

In today’s episode we will be discussing Chesterton’s 1908 book Orthodoxy. The chapters we are going to cover are:                              Chapter 1:         Introduction - “In Defence of Everything Else”                              and Chapter 2:         “The Maniac” Facilitator: Dr. Dermot Quinn Introduction: Gloria Garafulich-Grabois  

In today’s episode we will be discussing the following chapters of G.K. Chesterton’s book Heretics: “The Importance of Orthodoxy” (chapter 1) “Christmas and the Aesthetes” (chapter 6) “On Sandals and Simplicity” (chapter 10) “On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family” (chapter 14) Facilitator: Dr. Dermot Quinn Introduction: Gloria Garafulich-Grabois

In today’s episode we will be discussing the following: G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown Stories from The Innocence of Father Brown: “The Blue Cross” “The Secret Garden” Facilitator: Dr. Dermot Quinn Introduction: Gloria Garafulich-Grabois