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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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Two Essays Posted with Brideshead Themes

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Two essays have recently been posted which discuss themes developed by Waugh in Brideshead Revisited. The first is entitled “Is Downton Abbey the best we can do?” and is  posted on a political internet blog called opendemocracy.net, which is self described as nonpartisan. … Continue reading →

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Waugh and Post-Christmas Nostalgia

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

On a website called Blog of a Country Priest, Fr. John Corrigan of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ballarat in Australia recalls a passage from Brideshead Revisited as he takes down the Christmas tree in his parish church: He took out … Continue reading →

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Rex Mottram, the Weather Forecast and Papal Infallibility

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Rex Mottram’s casual acceptance of Roman Catholic dogma scores a twofer in this week’s conservative Catholic websites. Earlier in the week, it was his understanding of sacred monkeys in the Vatican that rated a mention. Now another site, The Stream, carries … Continue reading →

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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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