We study diffraction catastrophes of wave functions in diffeomorphism invariant quantum theories, for which ĤΨ = 0. These wave functions can be represented in terms of integrations over cycles in a complexified lapse variable N . The integrand exp(iS(N )) may have multiple essential singularities at finite values of N and at infinity. A basis set for Greens functions and solutions of the wave equation is represented by Lefschetz thimbles connecting these singularities. The finite N singularities are shown to be directly related to A n≥3 caustics. We give an example similar to a minisuperspace cosmological model constructed by Halliwell and Myers, to which we add a scalar field. We show that caustics with codimension d ≥ 2 exhibit strong entanglement with respect to partitions of their unfolding degrees of freedom. If an unfolding direction corresponds to a physical clock in a solution of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, the caustic bears some resemblance to a quantum measurement. The Rényi entanglement entropy R n is expressed in terms of integrals over 2n lapse variables N i . Writing the integrand as exp(iΓ), we find that the finite N essential singularities of exp(iS) are replaced with non-essential singularities of exp(iΓ) at cyclically related N i = N j , which the Lefschetz thimbles evade. The relative homology classes to which the integration cycles belong are higher dimensional variants of links.