He preached at Ronald Knox's funeral in the Drome.
From the article: (Father Rothschild in Vile Bodies is said to have been modelled partly on D'Arcy.)
I had a hunch this was iffy (not least because I don't find Fr Rothschild a particularly attractive character) and picked my copy off the shelf to check - In an intro written in the 60s and found in the back of my Penguin Modern Classics edn Waugh wrote " At the time I invented 'Fr Rothschild' I had never met a Jesuit'.
The PMG intro says "he almost suggests that he has to apologize for an overly satirical portrait of a Jesuit - which is presumably the opposite of most readers' response to him". I am not at all sure why the author, Richard Jacobs, presumed that.
The book was published Jan 1930, Waugh was received into the church on 29 Sept: a bit tight but no real reason to believe Waugh's version of events untrue.
Can't imagine D'Arcy was that pleased by the trajectory of the Jesuits post VII.
I have a copy of Waugh's grumbling correspondence with Cardinal Heenan on the various liturgical changes - a man after Anthony Merrick's heart.
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From the article:
(Father Rothschild in Vile Bodies is said to have been modelled partly on D'Arcy.)
I had a hunch this was iffy (not least because I don't find Fr Rothschild a particularly attractive character) and picked my copy off the shelf to check - In an intro written in the 60s and found in the back of my Penguin Modern Classics edn Waugh wrote " At the time I invented 'Fr Rothschild' I had never met a Jesuit'.
The PMG intro says "he almost suggests that he has to apologize for an overly satirical portrait of a Jesuit - which is presumably the opposite of most readers' response to him". I am not at all sure why the author, Richard Jacobs, presumed that.
The book was published Jan 1930, Waugh was received into the church on 29 Sept: a bit tight but no real reason to believe Waugh's version of events untrue.
Can't imagine D'Arcy was that pleased by the trajectory of the Jesuits post VII.
I have a copy of Waugh's grumbling correspondence with Cardinal Heenan on the various liturgical changes - a man after Anthony Merrick's heart.