What We've Been Reading—April 2023
by EditorsOne truth particularly deserving of universal acknowledgment is that there are a threatening number of “great works of literature.” Continue Reading »
The Providential Demise of the Papal States
by George WeigelThe loss of the Papal States was a great boon to the papacy and to the Church’s evangelical mission. Continue Reading »
Lessons From Ronald Knox
by Sohrab AhmariMonsignor Ronald Knox lived such an outstanding life that one can’t but feel the utter inadequacy of one’s own next to its record. Continue Reading »
Peace In a Plastic World
by Joshua HrenIn Love Among the Ruins, Evelyn Waugh examines how secular culture shelters us from ultimate realities. Continue Reading »
Waugh on the Merits
by Paul V. MankowskiEvelyn Waugh: A Life Revisitedby philip eadehenry holt, 432 pages, $32 Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born in 1903 to upper-middle-class Anglicans who lived in a suburb of London. He attended a boarding secondary school (Lancing College), read history at Oxford, published his first book (a . . . . Continue Reading »
Christianity Is For Cucks
by Matthew SchmitzEvelyn Waugh understood that Christianity is not a matter of blood, or of race, or of victory in this world. Continue Reading »
The Summer Reading List
by George WeigelIn honor of classic Catholic education, some summer reading possibilities. Continue Reading »
Waugh’s Helena, Father General, and the Reality of Revelation
by George WeigelEvelyn Waugh’s slim and critically unappreciated novel, Helena, is, at bottom, an act of faith in the reality of revelation. Continue Reading »
Catholicism Before and After 1963
by Gerald J. RusselloIn trying to understand the extraordinary changes the Catholic Church underwent in the middle of the twentieth century, I recently came across two illuminating novels. Continue Reading »
St. Evelyn Waugh
by George WeigelMany great novelists have had intricate, even prickly, personalities. But in Evelyn Waugh, nature and grace worked overtime to produce an extraordinary character, a full understanding of whose complexities would require the combined skills of an archaeologist, a psychiatrist, and a Jesuit confessor . . . . Continue Reading »
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