But how is this story supposed promote Catholicism if it just ends up making everyone miserable, and they’d be much happier serving God with some other more lenient form of Christianity that allows for divorce and remarriage?
~ Brideshead Revisited, Part XI: “Brideshead Revisited”
How am I supposed to take the Christian themes seriously when this supposedly Christian family uses wealth, power, and deceit to help a guilty criminal evade proper punishment?
~ Brideshead Revisited, Part III: “The Bleak Light of Day”