Early on (Chapter 4) in a conversation with Magnus about his second trip, Dick says he thinks they each saw what they deserved:
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I got His Grace the Bishop and the County, awaking in me all the forgotten snob appeal of Stonyhurst, and you got the sexy deviations you have denied yourself for thirty years.
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(Stonyhurst is a school in Lancashire, run by the Jesuits.) I agree with you,
gmw that Dick's Catholic upbringing means he understands and therefore interprets for us what is going on in religious terms.
A bit earlier in the book, in recalling his visits to Kilmarth as Magnus's friend back in their undergraduate days at Cambridge, Dick remembers that he asked Mrs Lane if the house was haunted. So the implication is perhaps that Roger's spirit was still there in need of the absolution that only a Catholic, albeit a lapsed one, could give.