Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh would have understood the point of the filial correction
It’s bad manners to discuss the terrible effects of sin. Waugh, like the authors of the correction, broke the taboo
The delightful oddness of Gibraltar
Two and a half square miles of peculiarity await visitors to the British Overseas Territory
Snobbery, sin and salvation
Brideshead Revisited enchants readers with its luscious portrayal of upper-class life. But at its heart is the working of grace
Book Review: Why Evelyn Waugh wanted Thomas Merton to shut up
The English literary master first championed the spirited Trappist monk and then grew tired of him
A meeting of two literary converts
Muriel Spark found Catholicism practical and rational, while Edith Sitwell was receptive to the power of sacramental grace
Nick Clegg should read Evelyn Waugh before writing his next manifesto
Waugh was as politically incorrect as it is possible to be
We can quell our fear of death through belief in the risen Lord
The Church must remind us again about the certainty of death
The enduring importance of a proper send-off
We human beings are ceremonial animals and funerals are vital, even for the non-religious
Should we care that Hilary Mantel is anti-Catholic?
Fashions have changed meaning literature and the Church are no longer comfortable bedfellows
We are all used to the banality of the Jerusalem Bible readings at Mass: but on Sunday the translation of the gospel was simply impossible to bear
There is now only one solution: permission must be given for the use of other authorised translations for the readings
