{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"G.K. Chesterton on Mariolatry: Chronic and Quite Incurable","description":"In 1926, the year his wife Frances entered the Church, G.K. Chesterton published The Queen of Seven Swords, a small book of poems about Our Lady. Grettelyn Darkey and Joe Grabowski skip the expected devotional pieces for the surprising ones, where Chesterton turns his love for Mary into an answer to his critics.&amp;nbsp; In This Episode:  Why 1926 may have turned G.K. Chesterton\u2019s mind toward Our Lady: his wife Frances entered the Church that year, and his biographer Maisie Ward calls it a lonely time of lost friends Who J.S. Phillimore was, and why Chesterton dedicated a book of poems to this fellow convert and champion of the ballad \u201cA Party Question,\u201d Chesterton\u2019s reply to Arnold Lunn, an agnostic who attacked his conversion and later became a Catholic himself How \u201cThe White Witch\u201d moves the moon from a pagan goddess\u2019s brow to beneath Mary\u2019s feet Chesterton\u2019s short poem against treating birth control as the test of liberality  Resources Mentioned:   The Queen of Seven Swords by G.K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward Lepanto by G.K. Chesterton Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Vol. XVIII (includes Chaucer)  FOLLOW US  Instagram Facebook X  SUPPORT  Consider making a donation Visit our Shop  Chapters:  00:00: G.K. Chesterton\u2019s book of poems to Our Lady 02:45: Frances Chesterton enters the Church 06:30: A lonely year for Chesterton 08:02: The dedication to J.S. Phillimore 15:00: \u201cA Party Question\u201d 21:22: Arnold Lunn and Roman Converts 25:43: Our Lady\u2019s share in Chesterton\u2019s conversion 28:25: Our Lady\u2019s champion 29:59: Losing sight of Mary, losing sight of Christ 33:06: \u201cThe White Witch\u201d 40:58: \u201cAn Agreement\u201d 46:35: Bringing the book back into print  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\/43267603\/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\/207429803"}