On Not Seeing the Goodness For the Sins, by Dr. Jeff Mirus

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, Jan 18, 2022

Sophia Institute Press has published a new edition of G. K. Chesterton’s delightful book, What’s Wrong with the World. Though written some years before Chesterton’s conversion, this book already contains much of the classic Chestertonian vision, and is chock full of Chesterton’s delightfully paradoxical analysis of how we ought to think about life. Reading Chesterton is often much like being turned upside down, the better to see what you’re really up against (and how easily it can be defeated).

Chesterton’s topsy-turvydom was rooted initially in his strong sense of the fundamental nature of things, so often distorted in our minds and hearts through wayward human desire; and it was rooted ultimately in his deep Catholic faith. …