G. K. Chesterton with Child – Exclusive Photo Restoration – Catholic Art – Catholic Gift

Gilbert is focused on this little girl as she shakes his big mitt of a hand, and one of the things we love about him is that we're sure he was treating her as kindly and with as much respect as he would have treated the queen of England. Part of us looks at this picture and sees the caption, "Oh, yes, I believe you are what they call a child" because she is so far from his world of politics and the imbroglio of grown men and women. But we also know that he treated everyone, even Mr. Shaw, with deep Christian compassion. A priest friend of ours once said that if the Catholic Church had a Patron Saint of Humor, it would be G.K. Chesterton. One of the great writers and thinkers of the last couple of hundred years, Gilbert Keith was also one of the funniest and most influential. Always a conservative thinker, he eventually became a convert to the Catholic Church and made many arguments in defense of orthodoxy, including a book of that title. He also wrote novels and poems, including The Ma