Guy goes through a bitter divorce & becomes a tradcath with alt-right sympathies. Evelyn Waugh is a very contemporary figure.
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Most were but modernist heresy within the church already worried Vatican.
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Waugh was proudly reactionary within the contemporaneous spectrum.
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In terms of secular politics yes, but in the Roman Catholic to which he was converted he was in the mainstream. The RC Church in the UK was on the right end of the spectrum during Vatican II.
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I think most cradle Catholics wore it more lightly than Waugh did (and most Catholics in the UK would've been Irish working class, rather than Waugh style country house aristo-wannabees).
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The British Catholic Church of the time was very diverse: old recusant families, Irish immigrants, upper-class converts from Anglicanism.
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Right -- Waugh basically belonged to 2 of those camps (Anglican convert who married into an old recusant family). But demographically, the Irish working class were the majority.
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Check out the reaction of the British establishment when Abbot Basil Hume, a non-Irish, half-French prelate was named archbishop of Westminster. “Finally, a real Englishman!”
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