Roman Catholic Church

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...

Born to an upper-class, religiously mixed (or divided) couple, CH chose the Catholicism of her gentle mother in preference to the Protestantism of her severe and earnest father before she understood what Catholicism meant.

At twenty-one, having come of age, Edmée de la Pasture (later EMD ) entered a Catholic convent, the mother house of an enclosed order in Belgium.

Born into the English gentry, ES was until about the age of twenty brought up an earnest heretic: that is to say, a member of the Church of England . Her eldest brother, for...

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...

Towards the end of this period of involvement with Catholicism , FN received a second call from God, directing her to devote her life entirely to him. She apparently experienced similar calls in 1850, 1853...

When Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical Humanae Vitae (On the Regulation of Birth), a prohibition on all forms of birth control, CB and her husband (and her mother ) left the Catholic Church

At some time before her death, AH converted to Catholicism (which had been her father's religion).

A Roman Catholic , FM also developed an interest in spiritualism.

Born to a mother of Frencharistocratic descent and a Church of England clergyman, GC came from a distinguished upper-classEnglish family with links to the nobility and with ties of friendship to the court. As...

DDM had faith in a kind of spiritual life which included the conviction that there was life after death, but did not subscribe to any formal religion, even though she kept a Catholic missal by...

MP was born into an upper-middle class family. His father, Adrian , was a Catholic doctor and his mother, born Jeanne Weils , was a wealthy Jewish heiress. When she died, Marcel inherited aproximately 1,350,000...

Pearl Craigie (JOH ) entered the Roman Catholic Church at a ceremony at St James's Church, Spanish Place, 22 George Street, London. She now assumed the name Pearl Mary-Teresa Richards Craigie.

AK was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church three years after her marriage, at least in part to avoid the duties of a vicar's wife.

Charlotte Mew was an Englishwoman who lived all her life in London, mainly in Bloomsbury. She came from a professional, middle-class family whose financial position was always precarious because of her father's carelessness with...