GK Chesterton is still going strong despite the naysaying

This year saw the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gilbert Keith Chesterton in London’s Notting Hill on 29 May 1874.

It has been suggested that 150 years on from his birth, GK Chesterton has largely been forgotten. But so far this year we have seen Chesterton Conferences in the United States, Argentina, England, Croatia and Italy, with more to follow before the year ends, including at least one in Australia this November.

In 2014, Bishop Peter Doyle, the then Bishop of the Diocese of Northampton, asked Canon John Udris to make an investigation into whether the Cause for the Beatification of Gilbert Keith Chesterton should be opened or not.