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Category Archives: Catholicism
Waughblogs
Several bloggers have commented on or recommended the works of Evelyn Waugh in the past week. In Antick Musings, Andrew Wheeler recommends Waugh’s first novel Decline and Fall which he recently read for a second time: Decline and Fall focuses intensely … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Sword of Honour
Tagged Aleteia, Antick Musings, Catholic Thing, Sheed & Ward
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Charles Ryder’s Outside-the-Book Experiences
Two postings make use of Charles Ryder’s experiences from Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited in contexts outside the structure of the novel. On a Roman Catholic weblog (Aleteia), Br. Silas Henderson is reminded, on the Feast Day of the Epiphany (6th January), of Charles’ experience … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers
Tagged Feast of Epiphany, Manchester City FC, Newsweek.com, Premier League Football
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Brideshead in the News: Charles, Sebastian and Celia
Jeremy Irons who portrayed Charles Ryder in the 1981 TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited was recently appointed Chancellor of Bath Spa University. He is the first person to occupy that position and was interviewed by Times Higher Education (THE) last month: … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Film, Lancing, Oxford, Television
Tagged Afar Magazine, Bath Spa University, BBC, Christmas blues, Emma John, Fr Angelo Geiger, Jeremy Irons, Queen Mary 2
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Feast Day of Edmund Campion Marked
Yesterday was the feast day in the Roman Catholic Church for St Edmund Campion. It was marked on two Roman Catholic websites with quotations from Waugh’s biography of Campion first published in 1935. On the website of the Association of Catholic Women … Continue reading
Review of Helena in Roman Catholic Journal
The Roman Catholic online journal Crisis Magazine, published by the Sophia Institute Press, has posted a retrospective review of Waugh’s 1950 historical novel Helena, possibly his least read work of book-length fiction. The review is entitled “A Catholic Satirist at Work” … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Helena
Tagged Crisis magazine, Michael de Sapio
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Commonweal Republishes Waugh Story
On the occasion of Evelyn Waugh’s birthday last week, the independent US Roman Catholic magazine Commonweal has republished his 1953 story of the dystopian future, Love Among the Ruins. The story made its first US appearance in Commoneweal’s issue dated 31 July 1953, … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Catholicism, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers
Tagged Commonweal, George Orwell
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Bloggers List Waugh
Waugh and his works have appeared in several recent blogs. In listverse he was named in a list of “10 Pop Culture Moments We Owe To Animals.” That seems unlikely but here it is: Evelyn Waugh’s Suicide Attempt Was Ruined By … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Sightings
Tagged Anthony Esolen, Jellyfish, Weblogs
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Waugh in Oxford News
Waugh figures in an article in the newspaper Catholic World Report written by a Roman Catholic Rhodes Scholar about her recent experiences as a student in Oxford. She mentions numerous Roman Catholic churches still active in Oxford outside the university … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Chattels & Movables, Newspapers, Oxford, Ronald Knox
Tagged Campion Hall, Catholic World Report, Ducker and Sons
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Waugh in the Blogosphere
Several bloggers, especially those with a religious theme, make fairly regular mentions of Waugh and his works. Yesterday, a blogger who specializes in Eastern Christianity posted a review of Waugh’s novel Helena on the day that the Church commemorates the Invention … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Catholicism, Helena, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged G.K. Chesterton, Weblogs
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Negative Blog Post Prompts Internet Debate
Earlier this week Prof Alan Jacobs of Baylor University in Waco, TX posted a brief article on his weblog in which he distilled most of the negative views of Evelyn Waugh into a few paragraphs. These include Waugh’s allegedly callous attitude … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Discussions, Twitter
Tagged Alan Jacobs, Matthew Walther, oldlife.org
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