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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
In fact it seems that (accepting Catholicism) was the redemption of the entire Marchmain family. Given my views of religion I was once more disappointed that Lord Marchmain at the moment of his death, and out of fear at that, abandons his view of the Catholic Church in the final moments to ask for final rites. Even Sebastian finds his perhaps final place of shelter in a Catholic monastery.
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Waugh converted to Catholicism, so the ending of Brideshead Revisited is in line with his beliefs. At the end of his life, he disagreed with the elimination of the Latin Mass in the Vatican II reforms, and his requiem Mass in 1966 was said in Latin. I think there is a parallel there between his attachment to the old faith and ceremonials and the themes in his works, a rejection of the modern, of the Age of Hooper.