Brideshead Revisited: The Catholic Novel Everyone Should Read | Fr. Patrick Briscoe and Fr. Bonaventure Chapman

September 18, 2026

Brideshead Revisited: Grace, Conversion, and the Catholic Imagination

Fr. Patrick Briscoe and Fr. Bonaventure Chapman explore Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, one of the great Catholic novels of the twentieth century. They unpack the novel’s major themes of grace, conversion, sin, beauty, marriage, and Catholic culture while examining the journeys of Charles Ryder, Sebastian Flyte, Julia Flyte, and Lord Marchmain.

At the heart of their conversation is Waugh’s vision of God’s persistent grace, the “twitch upon the thread” that continues to draw His children home.