There was bound to be disappointment when, two years ago, the Church in the person of Rev Peter Doyle, Bishop of Northampton rejected the campaign by a group of (mainly American] devotees to canonise GK Chesterton. The bishop’s grounds for that decision reached after months of investigation by Canon John Udris, were very specific: that there was no pattern of personal spirituality, no “local cult” and more importantly there was the obstacle of Chesterton’s anti-Semitism, a very topical issue at the time of the Canon’s enquiry, as it still is.