Roman Catholic Church

Meanwhile in 1914, at a low ebb in her life, NJ converted to Roman Catholicism . She took instruction in the faith after reading Confessions of a Convert by R. H. Benson (a homosexual whose...

HD 's poetry reflects her identity as a white Roman Catholic Englishwoman.

AG 's parents were Irish Protestant land-owners whose estate, encompassing thousands of acres, was originally acquired in the seventeenth century. Her forebears were a mix of Irish and English, Catholic and Protestant. Her maternal grandmother...

BRP described herself as having been born in the very bosom of Puritan England, and fed daily upon the strict letter of the Scripture from aged lips which I regarded with profound reverence. Her...

She was baptised a Roman Catholic , though her family did not practise: this was called being a wooden Catholic. The interdenominational hatred in the area was fierce and dangerous. After her first confession...

After the war, CC 's search for religious belief involved her for a while in spiritualism. She believed that on one occasion when she and her husband lost themselves in a country lane they had...

EF 's father, born an orthodox Jew, was non-practising; he did not have his children baptised, though their mother taught them to say Christian prayers. Eleanor's upbringing was Bohemian and unconventional: she did not attend...

It was after his divorce, in 1930, that EW converted to Catholicism . He was received into the Church on 29 September that year.

SD grew up in a working-class family in Lancashire. Though her father was Catholic as well as half-Irish, she did not consider herself to be Catholic. When she became famous at the age of...

HW was received into the Roman Catholic Church under the religious name of Mary Magdalen.

Her parents belonged to the educated, professional middle class, and were practising Christians within the Church of England , where (even to a teenager beginning to experience doubts) the services were beautiful with candlelight and...

In about 1940 both NRS and her husband became converts to Roman Catholicism , a faith to which she was led by Evelyn Underhill and by two Jesuit priests, Martin d'Arcy (while she and her...

LEB came from the Anglo-Irish nobility. This class, however, was at this time under a cloud. Her parents were Roman Catholic s, and her father's title had been attainted. In 1764 her brother renounced his...

Two of the older children willingly followed their mother into the Roman Catholic Church. Florence and her twin went through the terrors of a first confession, but as she later put it, [h]uman nature does...

She left the Dublin cousin because she hated his Quaker religion. Naturally vivacious, this teenaged widow found her cousin's gloomy sense of sorrow and conviction, and his disapproval of singing and dancing more than...