My Novus Ordo sister-in-law said, "you have to read Orthodoxy" so I did.  His style wandered for pages at a time and in fact continued to wander the entire book.  So I gave him another try with The Dumb Ox (about St. Thomas Aquinas) and found it to be the same.  Then I figured I had to be 'missing something', as people really seem to love ol' Chesty, and I joined the Chesterton Society for a bit.  Let's just say those were my last efforts with Chesterton.

What is interesting is that he published Orthodoxy in 1908, a year after St. Pius X put out Pascendi, and in it he blasts R.J. Campbell for his book The New Theology (also written in 1907 like Pascendi).  The bogus new theology, the train wreck of our times, was very much active to anyone paying attention.  Sadly, after that my sister-in-law said, "you have to read John Paul the Great by Peggy Noonan", so I did.  Noonan describes JPII exactly for what he was - the embodiment of everything Pius X condemned in Pascendi.  Now Noonan and my sister-in-law just need to read Pascendi, then reread Chesterton, and they might actually start seeing the light.

I have read all these authors. Have most of their works in my private library and count one of them as an old and dear friend.

I could be wrong, but I can guess which one is your friend.

I could be wrong, but I can guess which one is your friend.

And who amongst these authors would you guess?