Bridey's Bombshell - Is Evelyn Waugh's 'Brideshead Revisited' wrong about the Roman Catholic Church's rules on divorce?

                                                             Bridey���s Bombshell

 

I have no sectarian purpose here. I don't wish to attack a Church I don't belong to. I've always rather admired the intransigence of the Roman Catholic Church on marriage. It helps to keep the others honest, or at least to make them feel bad about not being honest.

 

This passage from the original version of 'Brideshead Revisited' (the book about which this post is mainly written) was mysteriously cut out of ...