British Catholics and Fascism is a comprehensive study of the
way in which British Catholic communities reacted to fascism both
at home and abroad. Drawing on substantial primary research, Tom
Villis sheds new light on religious identity and political
extremism in early twentieth-century Britain. He examines the
careers and thought of numerous prominent Catholic writers and
cultural commentators as well as the role of the Catholic press
more generally, the views of the hierarchy and the overtures which
the British Union of Fascists made to the Catholic communities.
Debates about fascism became symbolic of the wider difficulties in
articulating a religious political critique in an increasingly
secular political culture. For many Catholics, pro-fascism became a
way of expressing their own distinct political and social identity
in a society which largely held different views.
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