Roman Catholic Church

She was a cradle Catholic born into an English gentry family which harboured priests, celebrated the mass in secret, and suffered persecution for their faith. A recent commentator, Dorothy L. Latz , regrets the way...

Mary Ackland (later VA ) was received (with her new husband, Richard Turpin ) into the Catholic Church.

Though confirmed into the Church of Ireland (that is, in the Anglican faith) she sometimes thought (for partly political reasons) of converting to Roman Catholicism . She arranged a second, Catholic christening for her sons.

Lady Falkland 's four youngest daughters grew up while their mother was still nominally a Protestant and their father, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was systematically persecuting Catholics. After his death they lived as Protestants...

Confirmed as a Roman Catholic as a child, GG at fourteen was into fasting and kneeling in prayer in the church for hours on end, in a fervour which she later identified as sexual. Her...

Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection , and an Irish, originally Catholic , father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish...

Throughout her investigation into spiritualism, UT felt herself in conflict because the Roman Catholic Church , to which she still remained devoted, had vetoed all spiritualist practices and beliefs. She was able, however, to find...

Her father belonged to and participated in the local affairs of the Church of England (into which Jane was baptised), but her mother's family had a tradition of Roman Catholicism , to which as an...

Her family was mixed, her mother being an English Methodist and her father an Irish Catholic , who had moved away from his Celtic roots by changing his name from MacOwen to Owenson and his...

She is an English feminist who has allowed little information about her family origins to be known. In a lecture given in Spain she said she came from a middle-class background, and in a lecture...

HG, a Roman Catholic nun, was a Saxon, that is in modern terms a German. However, the first English scholar to discover her, Laurence Humfrey in the sixteenth century, so much wanted her to be...

This turbulent, restless and divided family was also unusual in being of mixed religion. Ann's mother was a Protestant and her father a Catholic . They followed the same system proposed for a mixed marriage...

Brought up, educated, and ordained in the Anglican Church , JHN began, with others, to entertain fears for its future as a national church. Emancipation of Catholics and Dissenters led them to suppose that the...

Scholarly debate continues to rage on the question of whether WS subscribed to the Church of England or whether he adhered to the minority and persecuted Old Religion of Catholicism . Supporters of the Catholic...

Her father's death plunged the PresbyterianHW into a crisis of religious faith and a conviction that the goodness of God was a myth. Hating the Puritanism in which she had grown up, its stress...