THE CALVERT SERIES HILAIRE BELLOC, _General Editor_ THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND CONVERSION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE CALVERT SERIES HILAIRE BELLOC, _General Editor_ ------- _Belloc_: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND HISTORY _Chesterton_: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND CONVERSION _McNabb_: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND PHILOSOPHY _Ward_: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE APPEAL TO REASON _Windle_: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ITS REACTIONS WITH SCIENCE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND CONVERSION BY G. K. CHESTERTON New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1927 _All rights reserved_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nihil Obstat Arthur J. Scanlan, S. T. D. Censor Librorum. Imprimatur Patrick Cardinal Hayes ✠Archbishop, New York. New York, September 16, 1926. Copyright, 1926, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. ------- Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1926. Reprinted, April, 1927. September, 1927. _Printed in the United States of America by_ THE FERRIS PRINTING COMPANY, NEW YORK. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EDITOR’S NOTE