Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and I am a Dominican friar of the

province of St Joseph. I teach at the Dominican House of Studies and I work for the

domestic Institute and this is Pine to the Quinas. I'd like to talk a little bit

about G. K. Chesterton because I am deeply indebted to G K Chesterton or I'm

super grateful, super appreciative for what he has done for me. Why? Well, kind of like as

part of my own ongoing conversion I had to discover that the

Church's intellectual life is something rigorous and vigorous that the church has

reasons for her belief and that those reasons are well articulated, well argued, and that they're beautiful.

And it was really Chesterton who helped me to see that for the first time.

So I want to give you five reasons for which I love GK Chesterton as a way to commend him to your readership.

So here we go.

Okay, maybe by way of further introduction. I started reading GK Chesterton a little bit at the end of high school and then in the beginning of college and then a lot more in the noviscuit. So my sister Rebecca had also gone to

Steubenville and she read G. K. Chesterton. It had been assigned to her

while she was there and then she got into it and picked him up in the

years since. And so she would, you know, quote and, you know, send along things that she had found in Chesterton and I was always interested and sometimes, you know, excited at the prospect of

of diving deeper but I only read like a little bit in high school and then maybe a

little bit in college and then we had a group of guys who got together to talk about things of faith and then to go on

to go on adventures called the GK.

And there was more GK Chesterton to be had in that blessed company.

And it was just like against this backdrop that when I went to the novishit

and I was encouraged like not so much to start our formal study of St. Thomas

Aquinas because it was communicated to us like listen these things are going to be

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