‘The Ball and the Cross’ (1909) is an allegorical work by the British writer G.K. Chesterton. The story is set in England in the early 1900s. A disquieting professor named Lucifer kidnaps a monk and forcibly leads him on a flying vessel of his own invention to show him the power of science, of reason … At the same time, in London, the publisher Turnbull publishes the magazine called ‘The Atheist’. One day, a Scottish Catholic (Evan Mac Jan), reading some offenses made by Turnbull magazine to the Madonna, breaks the glass and attacks the publisher, challenging him to a duel. The two contentendi will never succeed in never completing the duel: they will be interrupted mysteriously and, sometimes, even grotesquely, by various characters. Moral of the work: can the comparison between science and religion ever reach an effective conclusion? And if one day science could explain or demonstrate what today is a mystery? Who knows? To posterity the sentence. (Perhaps).
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