Roman Catholic Church

BWC 's family was lowland Scottish in origin though now established in England or overseas. They belonged to the gentry or professional class. She was confirmed at about fifteen in the Anglican Church , and...

Her parents—Margaret Foster and Henry Thompson —were of IrishCatholic extraction, descendants of immigrants who had come to work for the textile mills. They were working class of little education, with distant, painful memories...

The new vicar (who did not live in the parish) respected her so highly that he allowed her to appoint a curate (the vicar's substitute) of her own choice, Mr Horne. She was personally sorry...

Protestantism was a central part of that family identity which she found oppressive. After her husband died she first took up spiritualism. then converted to Roman Catholicism , and later became a Theosophist.

She grew up in an Irish landowning, philanthropic family that owned a third of County Galway. On her father's side she descended from an Anglo-Norman Catholic family; her grandfather was brought up a Protestant

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

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

After her mother 's conversion Lady Gertrude Douglas (later GD ) lost no time in becoming a Catholic herself. She was received into the Church as soon as she arrived in France.

He came from an Irish Catholic family, though he spent much of his adulthood in England. Despite his Catholic upbringing, he lived like a Protestant and thought like a Deist.

Late in life RG became a Roman Catholic , as did her daughters and their husbands. She was converted by friendship with the Jesuit Archbishop Roberts , formerly Archbishop of Bombay. She had formed a...

It seems AA was arrested twice this year, for speaking against the Sacrament. The second time was on 13 June. She was questioned by Edmund Bonner , Bishop of London, but later acquitted for...

Protestant minister John Dunmore Lang 's bitter anti-Catholic denunciation of CC 's immigration work prompted lively correspondence in the Sydney Morning Herald.

CG remained a member of the Church of England (with Low Church or Evangelical sympathies) although her first husband was a Dissenter and she often felt in Wales that the Dissenters were doing a better...

AS has been discussed as a religious writer who, slightly ahead of her time, intuited the need for a feminist revision of patriarchal monotheism. She centred a play on the Roman Catholic Mass, and some...

AB was confirmed an Anglican in Paris in the spring of 1862. She was fascinated by Catholicism , but the writing of the Oxford Movement convinced her of the similarity between Anglicanism and Catholicism. After...