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105 results for Catholic for Theme or topic
Marina Warner
In this text, Warner traces the ways that the figure of the Virgin Mary has been used and changed over time in many cultures and for many reasons. She is critical of the
, arguing that it has used Mary as a tool to control women and to ensure that they have little power in the church and society at large. Particularly, Warner notes that while Mary may be an archetypal symbol of divine empowerment, she is both a virgin and a mother, a feat which no other earthly woman can possibly duplicate. The myth of Mary, according to Warner, is no longer relevant in the modern world.
Elizabeth Warren
published Spiritual Thrift; or, Meditations Wherein Humble Christians (as in a Mirrour) May View the Verity of Their Saving Graces, a
devotional pamphlet which attacks both
and
.
Ellen Wood
This luridly anti-Catholic short story attacks priests as desecrators of marriage. It also challenges the institution of the confession, demanding: [h]ow is it possible that, in the enlightened nineteenth century, such monstrosities should exist?
Emma Jane Worboise
She followed this with nearly fifty novels of domestic, religious, and improving fiction. Although many of her works have romance elements, her style in general was regarded as wholesome. She is generally sympathetic to women, dealing often with the topic of marriage and declining to flatten out quirks of character even while insisting on a correct religious faith. Some of her novels, like St. Beetha's; or, The Heiress of Arne, 1866, are written for young people. In matters of faith
advanced an anti-Catholic and anti-ritualist position. She criticised the existing state of the
, depicted Jesuits as sinister conspirators, and provided a number of Catholic central characters who eventually convert to Protestantism. Examples of these last are provided in Father Fabian, The Monk of Malham Tower, 1879.
Maria De Fleury
's first poem here, Innocence in Bonds, A Dialogue dated 14 August 1780, in which the speakers are Truth and the Muse, refers to her previous publication, to martyrs (implicitly Protestants) who died at Smithfield, and in detail to the events of the Gordon riots. She employs the rhetoric of the Association as she rallies Britons against the scarlet whore. Many other poems also bear specific dates; some are hymns; most mention Gordon's name.
heaps praise on the
and blames the
for bringing the riots on themselves. Her millennarianism is not that of Isaiah, but rather comes from the book of Revelation.