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My choice is G.K Chesterton’s Father Brown and the Church of Rome.
To me, Fr. Brown is Chesterton at his best – creating entertaining settings for his wonderful aphorisms. Most writers are preachy when they are preaching, nothing wrong with that, but it’s difficult to pull off in a story. Chesterton handles the difficulties with ease, mainly with his characters, who behave in surprising but characteristic ways. His stories are a sort of sophisticated Brothers Grimm, spinning fables of crime that each tell us a little something that is true; this is why Catholics believe this, and isn’t Fr. Brown a very clever fellow?
This book is sampler, ten choice stories, and there is plenty more where it comes from. All of Fr. Brown is worth reading ( to the children too ), and can be read in the following Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Vols. 12, 13: paperback or hardcover and 14.
Gene McCaffrey is the Colorado office manager for Ignatius Press. He is married to Victoria McCaffrey, founder and proprietress of the Ronald Knox Society of North America. Gene and Vicki live in Fort Collins, CO, with most of their nine children and seven grandchildren.
Gene is the author, for 15 years, of Wise Guy Baseball, an annual guide for fantasy baseball players. He is also an old and often repentant rock and roll musician.
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