Roman Catholic Church

It is set in the late nineteenth-century on the boundary between Westmorland and Lancashire, an exquisite country whose landscape has a profound effect in the narrative. Alan Helbeck, of an old Catholic family...

The clash between Nonconformist and Roman Catholic faith dominates this book. While Hobbes was said to be privately hostile to the protestantism in which she was raised, the novel is relatively balanced in its exploration...

The novel consistently attacks Roman Catholics as prejudiced, supersititious, and dangerously under the thrall of their priests. Through O'Brien, HJ blames the poor for their own poverty, painting them as stupidly resistant to change that...

Naomi Royde-Smith noted that almost all of its characters have names, pseudonyms and aliases, and that it makes some criticism of the Church of England as well as the Catholic Church (but not of...

This book takes up some of the same themes as The Lardners and the Laurelwoods, 1948. Through its narrator, the not entirely sympathetically presented Parson Carpenter, this novel offers another two-generation story of the...

RL sets out to portray Dante and Beatrice's relationship in the context of the social and political conditions that surrounded them, while simultaneously arguing that the Divina Commedia emerged from this real love, this...

The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius , John Wesley , and Tolstoy . In Dante and Botticelli she argues from her two Italian examples that the best possible training for...

Brought up in Italy and neglected by her parents, the eponymous heroine of Victoria causes consternation at the age of ten by announcing that she has converted to Catholicism . When her father demands whether...

These jaunty poems contrast with a gothic-toned narrative about a party of boar-hunters who are joined by a mysterious White Knight who seems to be on a temporary pass out of Hell. SP speculates on...

COCE opens by making two points which might seem at variance with each other: the fascination which the past holds for later generations, and their ignorance of its discomforts and inconvenience. In a note she...

MR 's account of her first voyage (based on journals kept at the time) enthusiastically describes tropical birds, flying fish, marine phosphorescence, and waterspouts; the markets, salt pans, and mountains of St Kitts. She...

SH 's letter begins by rebutting the charge of female inconstancy. It is, she writes, matter of great Humiliation to me to admit her theological mistake and to change her mind. One criticism she...

The primacy of Christianity, and especially the Roman Catholic faith, underpins the novel's morality. As a child Princess Charlotte has been inoculated against faith, but she later rebels against this training. She is instructed in...

She says here that it is learned men, not women, who are responsible for misreadings of the Bible. Women were the first to see the risen Christ, and are allowed to read for themselves now...

The Catholic clergy (in the person of Father Jim Corkran) comes under particular fire as selfish and insensible of Irish needs. The priest of Peatstown guides by fear and is utterly devoid of dignity, either...