Chesterton enjoying overdue revival promoted by converts to Catholicism

Martin Scicluna (The Sunday Times, December 13) attempts to ridicule Roamer and tarnish his reputation.

I believe that global warming is a reality. Yet Roamer drew our attention to the very serious doubts regarding the integrity with which the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia handled its scientific data. In other words, he was not questioning scientific investigation but fraud and dishonesty exercised by some members of science who then parade their findings as Gospel truth.

Mr Scicluna seems to have used his difference of opinion on global warming as an excuse to pour scorn on Roamer because of his religious beliefs, betraying his contempt for all those who adhere to the Roman Catholic faith.

Unbelievably, he also goes on to take a jibe at G.K. Chesterton, once again branding him an arch propagandist. Unfortunately for Mr Scicluna, Chesterton, after years of neglect, is enjoying an overdue revival, promoted mostly by converts to Catholicism, who, like so many others before them, bothered to read him and, more importantly, understand him.

C.S. Lewis, one of the most outstanding intellectuals of the last century had this to say about Chesterton. "I had never heard of him and had no idea what he stood for; nor can I quite understand why he made such an immediate conquest of me. It might have been expected that my pessimism, my atheism, and my hatred of sentiment would have made him to me the least congenial of authors... In reading Chesterton... I did not know what I was lending myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

Roamer is in good company.