CNA Staff, Sep 16, 2025 / 09:20 am

In a suburb of Minneapolis in 2008, a small school named after the Catholic author G.K. Chesterton opened its doors.

Seventeen years later, the school has grown into the wide-reaching Chesterton Schools Network, with schools sprinkled across the United States. And this school year, the network is going international.

The president of the Chesterton Schools Network said there is no other word for it but “miraculous.”

“The growth has been simply astounding,” said Dale Ahlquist, who is also president of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, which operates the network.

But why are the schools a hit? Ahlquist credits the Holy Spirit.

“The real driver of this movement has been the Holy Spirit working to enliven the Church, beginning with the domestic

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