Category Archives: Catholicism

Cordelia’s Sacred Monkeys

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

A Roman Catholic traditional rite weblog has posted an article arguing, somewhat tongue in cheek, that Cordelia Flyte’s fanciful tutorial for Rex Mottram’s religious instruction in Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited has, in part at least, come true. Among the beliefs she jokingly told … Continue reading →

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Waugh and Father Pro

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Waugh’s biography Edmund Campion is quoted in a Roman Catholic blog maintained by Stephanie Mann, author of the book Supremacy and Survival: How Catholics Endured the English Reformaton. The article in question is about Fr. Miguel Pro, a Mexican Jesuit who … Continue reading →

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Waugh and the Jesuits

Posted on November 14, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The Jesuit magazine America runs an article in its latest issue about a recent conference on the Roman Catholic Literary Imagination. One of the participants, Mark Bosco, S.J., used the occasion to look back over the 20th century to identify writers … Continue reading →

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The African Epoch

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

A Georgetown University blogger (Paul Elie, Everything That Rises) was recently reminded of Waugh’s 1949 Life Magazine article “The American Epoch in the Catholic Church” (Essays, Articles and Reviews, p. 377). What called it to his mind was the story that … Continue reading →

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New Waugh Sources Posted on Roman Catholic Blog

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Writer and economist Michael Greaney has posted an essay on Catholic365, a website for articles of interest to Roman Catholic readers, that claims a new source for some of Evelyn Waugh’s works. This source is said to be in  the writings of Robert … Continue reading →

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Waugh on Greene

Posted on January 31, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

In a Guardian column earlier this week, Robert McCrum cites Evelyn Waugh in support of his somewhat eccentric choice of Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair as one of the 100 greatest novels in English. McCrum admits Greene has … Continue reading →

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Guy Crouchback’s Religion Featured in Article

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The online edition of First Things, a Roman Catholic journal on religion and public life, has published an article, Catholicism Before and After 1963: Two Novels, by Gerald Russello in which he contrasts the impact of religion on the character … Continue reading →

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Publication of Book on Waugh and Merton Announced

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

A book by Canadian author and educator Mary Frances Coady on the friendship of Evelyn Waugh and U.S. theologian Thomas Merton has been announced. Entitled Merton and Waugh: A Monk, A Crusty Old Man, and The Seven Storey Mountain, it will … Continue reading →

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NYT Includes Waugh in World Religion Special

Posted on December 21, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

This week’s New York Times Book Review is a special edition devoted to the subject of world religion. They asked several authors to recommend novels with religious themes.  Novelist and literary journalist Christopher Beha offered the following recommendation for Waugh’s … Continue reading →

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Hugh Trevor-Roper on Evelyn Waugh

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

The current issue of Standpoint reprints a 1986 letter of Hugh Trevor-Roper in which he attempts to explain why he and Evelyn Waugh were not, to put it mildly, close chums. HTR (1914-2003) was an academic who first came to … Continue reading →

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