(Vatican Radio) - Vatican Radio's Veronica Scarisbrick recently caught up with Father
Ian Boyd of the Congregation of the Priests of Saint Basil, President of the G.K.Chesterton
Institute for Faith and Culture. In this interview Father Boyd is asked in a special
way to comment on Chesterton as a journalist, the ' rollicking journalist' this prolific
author thought himself to be, as well as how his know- how of journalism might
come across today in our media savvy world . According to Father Boyd, Chesterton
who died in 1936 was prophetic in his writings, for example he had predicted that
the next great heresy would be an attack on morality and especially sexual morality:
"... he said not to be so afraid of the Russians and the Bolsheviks, because the
madness of tommorrow is far more in Manhattan than in Moscow"... In this interview
Father Boyd remarks how Chesterton believed that a consumerist culture had a greater
power to undermine morality than any totalitarian system: "he said that when real
evil comes it always comes from within ".. Asked by Veronica Scarisbrick whether
Chesterton saw Christ as the remedy to the brokenness of humanity Father Boyd replies
that this author : "..salutes Christ as the everlasting man . He was a sacramental
writer, that's to say he was religious writer who hardly ever spoke about religion.
His wife Frances once said to him : "Why don't you write about God?". And he replied
: ' I write about nothing else' . That's stealth evangelisation. That is he spoke
through symbols and through signs, he loved riddles and allegories and believed the
deepest truths could only be expressed through parables ..." Listen :