Published: 13 August 2019
Last updated: 4 March 2024
A CATHOLIC BISHOP investigating GK Chesterton’s eligibility for sainthood has cited longstanding allegations of anti-Semitism against the author as a reason to rule it out.
Peter Doyle, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Northampton, reached his conclusion after a year-long investigation.
The author, who wrote 80 books including the Father Browne detective series, was born into the Church of England but became a Catholic 14 years before his death aged 62 in 1936.
According to Catholic media, Bishop Doyle wrote to the president of an American society who has advocated Chesterton’s canonisation to say that he could not support it on several grounds.
FULL STORY Bishop rejects sainthood claim for G K Chesterton because of anti-Semitism (Jewish Chronicle)
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