Category: Catholic Literary Revival

“How Catholics can reclaim Britain” & Fr. Dudley

June 10, 2016

The Catholic Herald recently published the article by T A Pascoe “How Catholics can reclaim Britain“.  We are grateful for permission to reprint it–interspersing comments about Fr. Dudley whose mission was to reclaim England and Wales for Catholicism as the Superior for the Catholic Missionary Society from 1933 until 1947. Non-believers long for a spiritual truth which only … More “How Catholics can reclaim Britain” & Fr. Dudley

Evelyn Waugh

December 2, 2015

The Road to Damascus: The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Fifteen Converts to Catholicism was published in 1949 and edited by Fr. John A. O’Brien, who was writer and professor of philosophy at Notre Dame (USA). Below are highlights from Waugh’s account. But those who do not know my country should understand that the aesthetic appeal of … More Evelyn Waugh