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Evelyn Waugh

The enduring importance of a proper send-off

June 24, 2014

We human beings are ceremonial animals and funerals are vital, even for the non-religious

Should we care that Hilary Mantel is anti-Catholic?

February 11, 2014

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

January 14, 2014

There is now only one solution: permission must be given for the use of other authorised translations for the readings

How Pope Francis fooled the Guardianistas

November 05, 2013

Despite the enthusiasm of the left wing media, the Pope is not abandoning the traditional battlements of Catholicism

A 21st-century Evelyn Waugh shows the flaws of the Enlightenment

September 07, 2012

AN Wilson's first novel for five years is a major event

Tanzania’s vanishing Greek community is a parable of the failures of modern Africa

August 31, 2012

At last, an author who grasps how strange and sophisticated the continent really is

Evelyn Waugh did not love the splendour of a high Mass but rather a priest’s humble absorption in a low Mass

December 16, 2011

I like to think he would have approved of Mass in the Ordinary Form, too, now that we have an accurate translation

Novel writing and religion tend not to go together well

November 18, 2011

Believers ought not to be self-obsessed, but novels are about self-obsession

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