Anderson wrote detective fiction and also Catholic characters, including clergy, so it is not wandering too far off the reservation to cite the current British Father Brown series with original scripts about Chesterton's characters. (Sheila was at University with one of the actors in this image.)
In one episode, Flambeau morally blackmails Brown to help him steal a jeweled cross that is a Coronation present from the Pope to the Queen of England but all's well that ends well. A very dramatic Brown-Flambeau story not written by Chesterton.
The next post will, or at least should, return to Anderson's The Stars Are Also Fire.
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Kaor, Paul!
I think I like best S.M. Stirling's contribution to MULTIVERSE, "A Slip in Time." But I need to again reread that book.
I remember quite well the Catholic characters in Anderson's works. Ranging from Brother Hugh de Tourneville in ROGUE SWORD, the English exiled to space in THE HIGH CRUSADE, Holger Carlsen's conversion to Catholicism in THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS, and such Catholics as Nicholas van Rijn and the non-human Fr. Axor in the Technic stories, etc. And a telepath gives us a glimpse of the mind of a Catholic priest in "Journeys End:" serene, calm, happy, wise, strong with a gentle strength, etc.
I'm not sure Chesterton himself with have agreed with how the TV producers handled the Flambeau/Fr. Brown television show. My impression was that Flambeau was far too gentlemanly for any kind of blackmail. And Fr. Brown himself would not be the kind of person to submit to that kind of pressure.
Sean
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