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October 30, 2017

Publisher of Catholic apologetics had zeal for open-air evangelism

A photo of G.K. Chesterton from 1920. In 1926, Frank Sheed founded Sheed & Ward, a publishing house house that over the next half century published the leading lights of Catholicism: writers like G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh, Christopher Dawson and Ronald Knox.

Born in Australia in 1897, Frank Sheed’s father was a Scottish Presbyterian, his mother an Irish Catholic. Fortunately for the Church, and for English literature, his mother won out and, at 16, Frank declared himself Catholic and never looked back.

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