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Category Archives: Catholicism
Publication of Book on Waugh and Merton Announced
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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Tagged Mary Frances Coady, Thomas Merton
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NYT Includes Waugh in World Religion Special
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
Posted in Catholicism, Miscellaneous, Sword of Honour
Tagged Christopher Beha, New York Times Book Review
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Hugh Trevor-Roper on Evelyn Waugh
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
Posted in Catholicism, Letters, Sightings
Tagged Farm Street Church, Frank Pakenham, Graham Green, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Martin D'Arcy, New Statesman, Vatican II
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Evelyn Waugh and the Latin Mass Society of England & Wales
In 1965, Evelyn Waugh helped found the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales. The current issue of Regina magazine contains an article (“Shades of Evelyn Waugh: An Update on the Latin Mass in England & Wales“) on the history … Continue reading
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Tagged Latin Mass Society, Regina
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Evelyn Waugh Conference & Exhibit in Baltimore
Loyola Notre Dame Library in Baltimore is hosting two events this year to commemorate Evelyn Waugh’s visits to the United States in the late 1940s. Evelyn Waugh Exhibit (February 27th to April 7th): “An Englishman in Catholic America,” a display of … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Waugh, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Bibliophilia, Catholicism, Chattels & Movables, Events, First Editions, Letters
Tagged baltimore, loyola, notre dame
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A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes
St. Augustine's Press is publishing in October a new edition of A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes, a collection of letters between Evelyn Waugh and John Cardinal Heenan concerning the liturgical changes introduced … Continue reading
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