And yet he was constantly astonished, amused at what he found. Scandal to some was common sense to Chesterton. Looking at life from all sides made it possible for Chesterton to be so funny. He did not dish out howlers, and said nothing side-splitting. But the reader of Orthodoxy , at least, wears a grin from start to finish.
Incongruities lurk in almost every paragraph.
This too was part of his faith. Or, so it would seem to follow from these closing sentences of Orthodoxy . There was something that He covered constantly by abrupt silence or impetuous isolation. Gerard V. Bradley, professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, is a regular columnist for Catholic Dossier .