Roman Catholic Church

At the end of the Second World War, GBS converted to Catholicism from her purely nominal Judaism.

GBS published a somewhat different kind of memoir in All in Good Time, which describes the train of thinking that brought her from the non-practising Judaism of her childhood into the Roman Catholic Church .

GBS published The Way It Worked Out, a sequel to All in Good Time, which presents her continuing cogitations, as a Catholic, on Judaism and Roman Catholicism .

Both of GBS 's parents were Jewish: her ancestors, some of them upper-class, hailed from Austria (before that from the present-day Czech Republic) or from Germany; yet her life-writings display a confident and unproblematic sense...

Born into the English professional class, RS related closely to her American forebears. She and her sister were baptised as Catholics but brought up as Quakers .

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...

She was born into the English gentry and at a time of religious turmoil and change she probably held to the old religion of Catholicism , not openly but at least in sympathy, in view...

AS begins with the feelings that assailed her when she first stood on a summit and contemplated the prospect of transcendent magnificence, the peaks and glaciers of the Alps. Such, she says, is the prospect...

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...

GT was a member of an English gentry family who became Roman Catholics during her childhood. Her minority religious allegiance shaped her life.

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...

DT , Welsh poet, died of pneumonia in St Vincent's, a private hospital in New York run by Roman Catholic nuns. He had been in a deep coma for four or five days.

Both of KCT 's parents were Irish Catholics , and in comfortable financial circumstances. Her birth family was comprised of professionals and merchants, members of the rising middle class. Her childhood home...

AT 's family came from the middle classes of Lancashire and Scotland, but lived a rootless, unsettled life as her father pursued his career. Both sides had been Jacobites during the eighteenth century. She...

She was buried in the Roman Catholic section of the Gravesend cemetery. Her husband outlived her by fourteen years.