Tag: Death

Trump, Leo, and the Death of Integralism

There is a Yiddish witticism, Der Mensch tracht, un Gott lacht (“Man plans, and God laughs”), and recent events suggest the divine has a particularly puckish sense of humor. No sooner had his political lobbyists begun to gain traction with their…

Evelyn Waugh’s death, sixty years on

On Easter Sunday, April 10, 1966, Evelyn Waugh was at his most benign. He had not seemed this content for years. With his family, he had just heard Mass, celebrated by his favourite Jesuit, Fr Philip Caraman SJ, in the ancient, beleaguered…