Roman Catholic Church

GD was born into the nobility, of a Scottish father and an English mother. Her mother altered the course of her life by converting to Roman Catholicism , which her elder daughter also enthusiastically embraced.

MAS was an earnest religious seeker. Brought up in the Society of Friends, she had years of doubt, of misery, of darkness, and became successively a Quaker , a Methodist , and finally a Moravian

Born into the English gentry class only a generation after the Church of England came into existence as distinct from the Roman Catholic Church , EG was almost certainly a recusant or closet adherent of...

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...

Brought up both by her teachers and by Katherine Parr in evangelical Protestantism, she developed into a pragmatic Anglican , probably both by conviction and by informed political choice. She exercised her diplomatic skills to...

SW grew up as a Roman Catholic in the British lower middle class (with English and Welsh roots, describing herself as Welsh). Like many others, her family had risen in the world, since her grandparents...

Her family's titles, wealth, elite status, and remarkable record of high ability were somewhat offset by the RomanCatholic faith which excluded them from some of the civil rights and privileges possessed by other English or...

The idea of awaking a feeling of superiority to Italian religion backfired. They saw the Catholic Church in Italy as providing religion not for the few but for the many: that man in the street...

Shortly before the revoking of the Edict of Nantes on 22 October (when as Protestants they would have lost their claim to tolerance and religious freedom) AD and her husband were received into the Roman Catholic Church

Elizabeth, while remaining a practising Anglican , became remarkable for her capacity to think herself into the mindset of British Roman Catholics at a time when the generally dominant party in England saw them as...

Brought up in the observance of Judaism , HPrenounced religion as soon as his bar mitzvah was over, although his Jewish identity continued to be important to him. He became in maturity a determinedly...

Baptised and brought up a Catholic , DM took her Confirmation, First Confession, and First Communion with deep seriousness. She later suspected that she took her first step away from orthodox religion when various...

While a young woman CT converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism , the religion of her mother's family. In 1704 she maintained that differences among different branches of the Christian religion were of no importance...

She grew up with English and Irish Catholic parents of working-class background, living in council housing behind the Caledonian Canal at 92 St Valery in Inverness. The Smith family was fortunate to secure such...

For a year of her childhood she was brought up by High Anglican aunts; but she remained ecumenical and open-minded in her attitude to religion. In 1943 she wrote that if she believed in anything...