This week the Bishop of Northampton (UK) is to appoint a priest to look at whether author G.K. Chesterton should be made a saint (the first step to sainthood) after a campaign was launched by the American Chesterton Society (ACS). His Holiness, Pope Francis, expressed support for Chesterton's Cause when he was the Archbishop of Buenos Aires.
Mr Chesterton, who found fame through his Father Brown novels, converted to Roman Catholicism in the 1920s. He also wrote the religious works Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man and books on St Francis of Assisi and St Thomas Aquinas.The Orthodoxy looked at the meaning of life and Chesterton's spiritual journey to Christianity. The Everlasting Man is a spiritual history of western civilization which has been credited with helping to convert the author CS Lewis from atheism to Christianity. His writings have converted many to Catholicism, according to the ACS.
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