Talk:Ronald Knox

Untitled
a reconstruction of knox famous broadcast in the BBC's listen again section: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/the_riot_that_never_was.shtml

Sense of humor?
I understand that Fr. Knox had a very strong sense of humor. This is alluded to in the article but mightn't it be a good idea to spell this out some more? --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 18:24, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Ronald Knox's 10 Commandments of Detective Fiction
Are there any reasons why a citation of any kind to this is not included? I find it a commonly referenced resource in my crime fiction course at school and find his thoughts of these 'commandments' interesting in the least.

If no-one has any objections I may add it. 124.243.161.71 06:36, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

When was his title bestowed?
References to the 1926 radio play refer to the author as Father Knox -- I assume that he was later "promoted" to Monsignor. Can someone find a date for this and add it to the page please? YojimboSan 08:10, 12 October 2007 (UTC). I do not have the date but it will be in Evelyn Waugh's biography. The title went with his appointment to the honorary post of Protonotary Apostolic. The English Catholic Church tended to preserve the wider use of the title 'Monsignor' which has been reserved for bishops in continental usage since Vatican II;Clive Sweeting

Umineko trivia unneccesary
It doesn't add anything to the article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.162.157.254 (talk) 06:31, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Clarification needed
“In 1953 Knox visited the Oxfords in Zanzibar and the Actons in Rhodesia.” Who? Matthau (talk) 06:15, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Misleading link
The link "BibleGateway Knox-Bible" actually leads to "New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition", which is different than Knox's version. This link should be fixed or removed. --Erel Segal (talk) 17:25, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

G.K. Chesterton and Knox's conversion
Waugh details Ronald's attraction to High Anglicanism moving eventually to Catholicism - without mentioning G.K. Chesterton. Chesterton may have led Knox to be a writer of detective fiction, but not a Roman Catholic. Knox helped Chesterton become a catholic, but I see no evidence going the other way. Clive S. Wilson (talk) 20:35, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Not evidence, certainly, but as Dale Ahlquist somewhere said (hardly an objective source, but then neither am I), many of Chesterton's classic Catholic works were written before he was Catholic; to put it into a bit more objective form, Chesterton certainly displays a whole lot of quite Catholic ideas and attitudes in his pre-conversion works. A prominent and undisputable case is the figure of Father Brown; Chesterton was not a Catholic at the time he thought him up, but it was a Catholic priest whom he thought up. I do not, I repeat, have evidence; but I can't deny there's something charming in the idea of Chesterton influencing Rev'd (Msgr-to-be) Knox into becoming a Catholic and afterwards Fr (Msgr-to-be) Knox receiving the said Chesterton into the Catholic Church.--2001:A60:1521:5201:150B:F614:DE7E:808C (talk) 21:47, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Conversion
"n 1910, he became a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. Here, as a devout Anglo-Catholic, he became a key member of Maurice Child's fashionable "set". this must be wrong, if he only converted in 1917? I have deleted "devout Anglo-Catholic". Hellebore (talk) 12:37, 5 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Anglo-Catholic doesn't mean Catholic. It means Anglican but towards the Catholic end of the spectrum. See http://www.stmarymagdalenoxford.org.uk/what-is-anglo-catholicism/. If he converted in 1917, then it is probably true that he was a devout Anglo-Catholic in 1910. Unicorn24515 (talk) 10:28, 21 May 2023 (UTC)