In case you wondered …

… What Evelyn Waugh saw in America (An Anglo-American romance) | America Magazine. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Given the liberal regime’s incompetence in religious matters and given the huge differences that divide the different religions practiced by U.S. citizens, “the neutral, secular State can only function justly by keeping itself within strict limits.” It was not for Waugh, a foreigner, to predict how long the U.S. government would hold back from encroaching on religious freedoms. Nonetheless, Waugh seemed to see that encroachment hovering in the distance, however far. He seemed to see the barbarians descending from the hills of Hollywood, howling the end of the “American Epoch in the Catholic Church.” But Waugh the foreigner has fallen for his forbidden loved one. Even if her birthmarks mar her singular attractions, he won’t speak of them in public.