The Daily Chesterbelloc

"These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own." – Chesterton
Didn't this used to be called sacriledge? There have got to be Church owned buildings that aren't actual churches where the downtrodden could be housed. I guess, though, that if you don't use your church for holy [...]

"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece." Chesterton
Have you noticed that most modern art (churches included) is only appreciated by those who make it and those who want to pretend [...]

"Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
There’s always laughter and good red wine.
At least I’ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!" Hilaire Belloc
My sister has this on a sign at her front door (it keeps away JW and Mormon missionaries) but I was reminded of it by the Sober Sophmore.
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For today's quote we wandered over to Tremendous Trifles.
"The Turks besieged Vienna and nearly took it, less than a century before the American Declaration of Independence. Islam was then our superior, especially in military art. There is no reason why its recent inferiority in mechanical construction, whether military or civilian, should continue indefinitely. Even a [...]