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Category Archives: Catholicism
HHA Literary Trail (more)
Another local paper (The Gazette) has published a story about Evelyn Waugh’s association with a country house on the Historic House Association’s new literary trail. This is Woodchester Mansion located between Dursley (where the Waughs lived from 1937-1955) and Stroud. Here’s … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Dursley, National Trust, Nympsfield, Piers Court, Woodchester Mansion, Woodchester Park
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Evelyn Waugh and the “Catholic Novel”
A blogger writing as Tychy has posted an article billed as a review of Graham Greene’s 1938 novel Brighton Rock but is really an essay on Greene’s writing as a Roman Catholic novelist. The blogger (a non-catholic) begins by comparing Greene’s … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Essays, Articles & Reviews
Tagged Andrew Biswell, Anthony Burgess, Brighton Rock, Graham Greene, The Tablet, Tychy
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Anniversary on Horizon
A passage from Waugh’s 1935 biography of Edmund Campion has been quoted on a religious website by Fr John Hunwicke (formerly a teacher and chaplain at Lancing College). This is intended to provide a context for the observance next year of the … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Biographies, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh
Tagged Elizabeth I, Fr John Hunwicke, Pius V, Regnans in Excelsis
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Paula Byrne to Appear at Highclere and Other Waugh News
Biographer Paula Byrne (author of Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead (2009)) will appear in a program entitled “Literature and Landscapes” to be held at Highclere Castle near Newbury, Berkshire, in May. The venue is better known as the … Continue reading
Waugh Quoted in Bruising Battle of Cardinals
A story in Catholic World Review by Edward Peters, described elsewhere as a Canon Law expert, opens with a quote from Brideshead Revisited to describe a doctrinal dispute between two Vatican officials: Evelyn Waugh’s character Charles Ryder described his friend … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism
Tagged Amoris Laetitia, Catholic World Report
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Waugh in the Ratings
Several sites and publications have recently issued rankings on Waugh and his works. The interactive internet site Ranker is running a survey for the best Roman Catholic writer. Currently Waugh is #12 preceded by Allen Tate and followed by Graham Greene. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, When the Going Was Good
Tagged British Council, Gentlemen's Journal, National Great Books Curriculum, Nicholas Shakespeare, Ranker, Waugh Abroad, WorldCat
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Jesuit Journal Reviews Eade Biography
The current issue of America magazine, the journal of the Jesuit order in the US, reviews Philip Eade’s biography of Evelyn Waugh. The review is by David Leigh and is not a favorable one: Any biographer of Evelyn Waugh (1903–66) … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Catholicism, Complete Works, Newspapers
Tagged America: The Jesuit Review, David Leigh, Philip Eade
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Brideshead and Silence
Japanese author Shusaku Endo, a Roman Catholic, wrote a novel entitled Silence (1966) that has recently been adapted into a film by Martin Scorsese. The book seems generally to be considered Endo’s masterpiece. The story is about Jesuit missionaries sent out in the 16th century … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Film, Newspapers
Tagged Graham Greene, Martin Scorsese, Shusaku Endo, Silence, The Christian Review, The Power and the Glory, The Tablet
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Mottramism at Work
Senior Editor of The American Conservatiive magazine Rod Dreher has posted in his blog on the magazine’s website an example of what he calls “Mottramism” at work in the higher echelons of the Roman Catholic Church. He defined the concept several … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism
Tagged Pope Francis, Rod Dreher, The American Conservatism
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Ronald Knox Revival
This week’s issue of The Spectator reviews a new collection of Ronald Knox’s works. This is entitled Ronald Knox: A Man for All Seasons and is edited by Francesca Bugliana Knox, who is related to Knox by marriage. See earlier post about … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Newspapers, Oxford, Ronald Knox, Scoop
Tagged Christopher Howse, Katharine Asquith, The Spectator
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