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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.

Published in Guest Columns