Was Auberon Waugh a Catholic?

Born just as World War II broke out, Waugh hardly saw his father until he was five. His parents being Roman Catholics (his mother by birth and his father by conversion), he was educated at the Benedictine Downside School in Somerset and passed his Greek and Latin "A" Level exams at the early age of fifteen.

What religion was Evelyn Waugh?

Conversion to Catholicism

On 29 September 1930, Waugh was received into the Catholic Church.

When did Evelyn Waugh become a Catholic?

Waugh converted to Catholicism in 1930, shortly after the dissolution of his unfortuitous marriage, to Evelyn (“Ev-” like “every”) Gardner, but the decision was intellectual: He claimed to find the world “unintelligible and unendurable without God.”* (He'd attempted to drown himself at sea some years earlier, but was ...