Category Archives: Catholicism

Survey of Waugh

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The Catholic World Report has posted an article surveying Evelyn Waugh’s works from a Roman Catholic perspective. This is by Prof. Adam A.J. DeVille, St. Francis University, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and is written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary … Continue reading →

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Harry Mount on Brideshead Revisited

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The Catholic Herald has marked the 50th anniversary of Evelyn Waugh’s death with a feature article by journalist and author Harry Mount on Brideshead Revisited. Mount begins with an assessment of the novel: Fifty years after his death on April … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh and European Philosophy

Posted on March 28, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

In an essay about Jurgen Habermas, described as “Europe’s most influential philosopher,” Prof. Daniel N. Robinson is reminded of when the British writer, Evelyn Waugh, was received into the Roman Catholic Church in the Fall of 1930. It caused quite a … Continue reading →

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Waugh Quoted in New Westminster Hymnal

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

A quote from Evelyn Waugh’s 1959 biography of Ronald Knox is printed as a sort of epigram at the beginning of a new edition of the New Westminster Hymnal (originally published in 1939). The hymnal contains Roman Catholic versions of hymns used in … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Chapels

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

A traditionalist Roman Catholic blogger has posted a short entry on the connections between the fictional chapel described at Brideshead Castle in Waugh’s novel and the actual chapel at Madresfield Court. The connection between these chapels is well known and … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh and the Resolute Old Lady

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

In an article in Crisis magazine, Professor Regis Martin from a Roman Catholic college in Ohio is reminded of Waugh as he conducts a group of his students around Europe. This occurs as they are about to visit a church in the outskirts of Vienna … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Religion

Posted on February 18, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

In the current issue of the U.K. paper The Catholic Herald, an article (“Seduced by the ‘Devil’ Hitler” by Francis Phillips) opens with a familiar quote from Evelyn Waugh: There is a well-known story about the novelist Evelyn Waugh. He … Continue reading →

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Julia Flyte and the Quality of Mercy

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

An article on the Christian concept of mercy in the recent opinion pages of the Times of Malta opens with a quote from Waugh: In Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited – that great Catholic novel on life, death, the fall from … Continue reading →

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TLS Posts 1935 Review of Waugh’s Edmund Campion

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The curent issue of the TLS posts the 1935 review of Waugh’s Edmund Campion in its Then and Now column. The review is written by A.F. Pollard, Professor of History at University College London and specialist in the Tudor period. … Continue reading →

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New Book on Roman Catholic Culture Praises Waugh

Posted on January 30, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

A Roman Catholic newsblog OSV Newsweekly has posted a notice reviewing a recent book by Robert Royal. This is A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Traditions in the Twentieth Century. According to the reviewer (Russell Shaw), Royal’s book: …is an attempt — a remarkably successful … Continue reading →

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