{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"What G.K. Chesterton Said about St. John Vianney","description":"For the memorial of St. John Vianney, Joe Grabowski reads a rarely reprinted G.K. Chesterton essay\u2014The Challenge of the Cur\u00e9 d'Ars\u2014written as an afterword to F.J. Sheed's 1929 translation of Henri Gh\u00e9on's The Secret of the Cur\u00e9 d'Ars. Chesterton's portrait is not the gentle village priest most readers expect but a militant one, a walking contradiction who denied everything his century most confidently affirmed. You'll hear why Chesterton thought the critics who file the Church under the medieval past have misread her entirely, and why the Cur\u00e9's holiness shone brightest in the full daylight of the age of reason. In This Episode:   Where to find G.K. Chesterton's rarely reprinted essay on St. John Vianney\u2014and why it sits at the back of Gh\u00e9on's book rather than the front  Chesterton's argument that the Church predates every nation, and why that makes &quot;international&quot; the wrong word for her The sharp line Chesterton drew between an apologia and an apology, and what Catholic argument lost when the two words collapsed into one  Chesterton's reading of the Cur\u00e9 d'Ars as provocative rather than merely pious\u2014a priest whose entire life functioned as a denial of his age How Chesterton used Lourdes and Ars to answer critics who treat the Church as a relic of a particular past  Resources Mentioned:   Main biographies of the Cur\u00e9 d'Ars, including Abb\u00e9 Francis Trochu's  The Secret of the Cur\u00e9 d'Ars by Henri Gh\u00e9on, translated by F.J. Sheed  The Challenge of the Cur\u00e9 d'Ars by G.K. Chesterton (1929 edition, full text)  Act of Love of the Holy Cur\u00e9 d'Ars  Chapters:   00:00: Cold Open  00:26: Welcome and the Memorial of the Cur\u00e9 d'Ars  02:50: Making Reparation in the Aftermath of the Revolution  05:08: Introducing G.K. Chesterton's Essay on the Cur\u00e9 d'Ars  07:26: The Church, the Nations, and the Word Apologetics  09:43: A Militant Faith and the French Religious Quarrel  12:06: A Denial at the Height of the Revolution  14:26: Neither Medieval Nor Modern  16:44: St. John Vianney's Act of Love  FOLLOW US   Instagram  Facebook  X  SUPPORT   Consider making a donation  Visit our Shop  Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios ","author_name":"Uncommon Sense","author_url":"https:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/23918\/site","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/42305275\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/204747410"}