"There is too much tendency to turn your life into an essay. I propose to make mine a story."

G.K. Chesterton in "Notebook" while in art school, quoted in Garry Wills Chesterton 

In my latest National Post column I say the new Japanese drive-thru get-it-over-with funerals underline the emptiness of modernity.

In my latest National Post column, I say the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse enters dangerous, familiar territory when it starts telling the Catholic Church what it should think.

"We have spent 200 years rediscovering the futility of man unredeemed by God - what G.K. Chesterton called the immense sadness of paganism."

British Columbia Report August 9, 1993 [I did not record the writer's name]

"If there were anywhere on earth a resting place other than God, we may be very sure that the human soul in its long history would have found it before this."

Archbishop Fulton Sheen, quoted in National Review June 12, 1995

"If a man wants to worship the Life Force merely because it is a Force, he may very naturally worship it in the electric battery. I am tempted to say it will serve him right if he eventually worships the life force in the electric chair."

G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 5 # 3 (Dec. 2001)

In my latest National Post column I say Donald Trump recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel isn't just morally and historically right, it's common sense in terms of genuine negotiations.

"It is really a strange thing that there should not be room enough in the world for men to live, without cutting one another’s throats."

George Washington, in W.B. Allen, ed., Washington: A Collection