EVELYN WAUGH AND ROMAN CATHOLICISM :
"Yesterday I asked him whether Our Lord had more than one nature.
He said : Just as many as you say, Father.
Then again I asked him : Supposing the Pope looked up and saw a cloud and said "it's going to rain", would that be bound to happen ?
O yes, Father. But supposing it didn't. He thought a moment and said, I suppose it would be sort of raining spiritually, only we were too sinful to see it.
(...)
He's absolutely determined to become a Catholic, mummy, and to herself she said : In her long history the Church must have had some pretty queer converts.
I don't suppose all Clovis's army were exactly Catholic minded.
One more won't hurt."
(...)
I've had a long talk with a Catholic, a very pious, well educated one,
and I've learned a thing or two :
For instance, that you have to sleep with your feet pointing East because that's the direction of heaven,
and if you die in the night you can walk there.
Now I'll sleep with my feet pointing any way that suits Julia,
but do you expect a grown man to believe about walking to heaven ?
And what about the Pope who made one of his horses a Cardinal ?" (pag.180, 181).
EVELYN WAUGH AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR :
"Franco's simply a German agent.
They tried to put him in to prepare air bases to bomb France.
It would make the monarchy stronger than it's been since Tudor times.
The people are with him.
(...)
Anyway, Franco will soon be skipping back to Morocco". (pag.257).