Sunday, November 4, 2007

Why I am a Catholic




Why I Am A Catholic
By G. K. Chesterton
From Twelve Modern Apostles and Their Creeds (1926)
Reprinted in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Vol. 3 Ignatius Press 1990

The difficulty of explaining "why I am a Catholic" is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true. I could fill all my space with separate sentences each beginning with the words, "It is the only thing that . . ." As, for instance, (1) It is the only thing that really prevents a sin from being a secret. (2) It is the only thing in which the superior cannot be superior; in the sense of supercilious. (3) It is the only thing that frees a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age. (4) It is the only thing that talks as if it were the truth; as if it were a real messenger refusing to tamper with a real message. (5) It is the only type of Christianity that really contains every type of man; even the respectable man. (6) It is the only large attempt to change the world from the inside; working through wills and not laws; and so on........

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

and so on ....... Ohe, Adam; are you going to finish this tomorrow. I will have to wait all day ... because I am leaving the house very early; hopefully for early Mass ... ;-) ... which is an hour later now. My body just will not adjust. Ohe, well, maybe later ... talk to me.

Anonymous said...

Ooooooops; was me ... Cajun Sissy ... and so on; the rest of the story, sil vou plait. Pleaaaseeee! Macile

Rich said...

Hey Adam, where did you get this picture? Are you sure that this is G.K.? Almost all of his photos show him with glasses. And this guy doesn't look like most of his photos.

I love Chesterton.

REW

Adam the Catholic said...

oops.. I googled his pic that was Conan Doyle. All better now. I just came across Chesterton the other day and started reading some of his stuff.