FORMED Book Club

Can priests bear arms? We discuss the moral challenges of war as we continue our discussion of Saints and Sinners in the Cristero War by Fr. James Murphy.

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Why did a Catholic country start killing Catholics?  We cover the history of Christian Mexico and the beginnings of radical Mexican secularism in the early twentieth century—our first discussion of Saints and Sinners in the Cristero War by Fr. James Murphy, from the introduction to chapter 3.

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To know what’s wrong with the world, you have to know what is right with the world.  We close out our long, long study of G.K. Chesterton’s In Defense of Sanity by discussing five joyful, masterful essays: “Scipio and the Children,” “The Philosophy of Islands,” “The Artistic Side,” “What Is Right with the World,” and “The Spice of Life.”

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Are men more selfish than women? Are people naturally attracted to arrogance? We discuss three more essays by G.K. Chesterton:  “Two Stubborn Pieces of Iron,” “The Revival of Philosophy—Why?”, and “If I Had Only One Sermon to Preach.”

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Jaded policemen, the broken pharmaceutical industry, and a debate over free trade. All of this as we discuss just three essays by G.K. Chesterton: “The Efficiency of the Police,” “About Beliefs,” and “The Common Man.”

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What happens when we start seeing people as animals?  We debate birth and population control—as well as Eucharistic miracles—in our discussion of G.K. Chesterton’s essays “Babies and Distributism” and “The Rout of Reason.”

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What happens when we start seeing people as animals?  We debate birth and population control—as well as Eucharistic miracles—in our discussion of G.K. Chesterton’s essays “Babies and Distributism” and “The Rout of Reason.”

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G.K. Chesterton’s take on contraception and on global trade. Fr. Fessio, Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pearce argue about the essays “The Surrender Upon Sex” and “Reflections on a Rotten Apple” from the Chesterton collection In Defense of Sanity.

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Vaccines and hopscotch.  Fr. Fessio, Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pearce discuss G.K. Chesterton's thoughts on rules and the big State in a heated episode of the Formed Book Club.

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What is a barbarian? And might you be one? Father Fessio and Joseph Pearce discuss two more essays by G.K. Chesterton,  “On the Return of the Barbarian” and “On Man: Heir of All the Ages,” both from the collection In Defense of Sanity.

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