For so many people who were enduring the trauma of the years of drastic change after the Second Vatican Council, Michael Davies' books and lectures were like manna from heaven and uplifted and educated many lay people and clergy. In his research and exposition of the real facts on the liturgy and architecture, he shed a great deal of light on matters that many in high places preferred to keep hidd..

This is an attractive biography because Chesterton is an attractive figure. He was a journalist and always kept up his passion for politics and history, literature and philosophy, Christianity and family. Gilbert lived from 1874 to 1936. His was the London of the Victorian era and World War I, Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells, socialism and capitalism, the theories of Marx and Malthus, Freud and Nie..