BY STAFF REPORTER

AN INTERNATIONALLY renowned Catholic study centre that promotes the work and writings of GK Chesterton is moving to new premises in Oxford.
The Centre for Faith and Culture, founded in 1994, will move next month from Plater College Oxford into new offices alongside Family Publications on King Street in the university city's Jericho district.
It has been renamed The Chesterton Institute for Faith and Culture, to reflect its recent merger with the GK Chesterton Institute at Sewn Hall University in New Jersey.
Fr Ian Boyd CSB, president of the institute, said the merger reflected a commitment to work more broadly in the area of faith and culture.
He said: "Our institute is not exclusively focused on Chesterton and his writings, but on doing the kind of work that he would have wanted Christians to be doing today helping to build what the Pope calls a culture of life, evangelising society, publishing good journalism, defending the principles that form the basis of Western civilisation."
The institute's research library contains many original works and memorabilia of the Catholic writer, famous for his much loved Fr Brown stories, as well as a unique collection of papers and books related to the Distributist movement, and books by other writers of the Catholic literary revival.
During its years at Plater College, the Chesterton library attracted visiting scholars from all over the world. The library will also be relocated at the King Street offices.
With regular conferences — one on fantasy literature is currently in preparation — and other work on Christian apologetics, ethical economics and cultural analysis, the Institute hopes to contribute to a religious and cultural revival.
Fr Alden Nichols OP, a renowned British theologian and a key adviser to the institute, said the new venture would help to foster "a more adequate liturgical practice that is Godcentred".
He added; "It's difficult to think of any Catholic institution in England with either a comparable range of interests, or a comparable coherence of outlook."
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