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Profile of Fr Martin D’Arcy on Italian Website
The life and career of Fr Martin D’Arcy are profiled in a recent issue of the Italian-language religious website Radio Spada. Fr D’Arcy was Waugh’s friend and Roman Catholic mentor from the time of his conversion to that faith. He … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Campion Hall, Martin D'Arcy, Radio Spada
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Martin D’Arcy and Alec Waugh Archives Described
There are recent postings relating to the UK archives holding the papers of Fr Martin D’Arcy and Alec Waugh. Fr D’Arcy’s archives are discussed in an article on the Jesuits in Britain website: The collection contains letters from over 700 different … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Anniversaries, Photographs, Research
Tagged Archives, Atlas Obscura, Cocktail Party, Martin D'Arcy, Sherborne School, Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
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Waugh’s Murals
The Tablet carries an interesting story of how the murals in the Lady Chapel at Campion Hall, Oxford came to be painted. They were funded from the sale of Waugh’s biography, Edmund Campion, although Waugh himself had no role in choosing … Continue reading
Posted in Diaries, Edmund Campion
Tagged Campion Hall, Martin D'Arcy, The Tablet
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Waugh and the Jesuits
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
Posted in Catholicism, Conferences, Edmund Campion, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged America, Mark Bosco, Martin D'Arcy, Philip Caraman, Society of Jesus
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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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