Roman Catholic Church

AA was a white Englishwoman from the gentry class. Though her grandparents were Roman Catholics , it seems that her father and others in her family favoured the Reformed or Protestant religion.

Born to a mother of French aristocratic descent and a Church of England clergyman, GC came from a distinguished upper-class English family with links to the nobility and with ties of friendship to the court...

Her later years are to be seen in terms of her inner spiritual life as well as her public religious-political activities. Though her relations with the Jesuits and with the Papal Curia were often difficult...

AOK was an Irishwoman born (on both sides) into the Dublin theatre world, though her father had gentry origins. Her mother was Protestant , and her father Catholic . AOK says that she never experienced...

An accusation was brought against JA of being a Popish recusant convict, that is of practising the outlawed Roman Catholic religion. The charge (which was dismissed) probably had something to do with her ongoing court case.

Her later Roman Catholicism (which some commentators dispute) may have had family roots, for there was some talk of her entering a convent.

CC fell into severe depression once more. Her serious illness was compounded by pressure from various Catholic acquaintances and her own thoughts, which increasingly turned to death. In this condition she had a spiritual experience...

Edith Cooper and Katharine Harris Bradley (known as the poet MF ) were each received into the Roman Catholic Church.

As an adult, she converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism . She later became a vegetarian, and involved herself with two alternative movements, Spiritualism and Theosophy, before breaking away from the Theosophical Society to form the...

She was born into the white American middle class. One of her grandparents was Jewish. The Catholic girlhood which she later wrote about was inflicted on her by her devout maternal grandparents.

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...

CD grew up in the Church of Scotland , but converted to Roman Catholicism in 1891 after a decade living in France.

The early life of Chloe Wofford (later TM ) was shaped by her birth as a working-class African-American at the tail end of segregation. At twelve she became a Roman Catholic . In...

MR was born into the increasingly confident and accomplished English, professional, urban class. As she grew up she participated to the full in her father's strongly held conviction that the true faith was the old...

During her second marriage MB took up with spiritualist practices such as automatic writing. Near the end of her life, she became a convinced Anglo-Catholic . Naomi Royde-Smith (herself a Catholic convert) suggested that Butts...