Roman Catholic Church

MF 's contributors here, both men and women, look back at childhoods in which belief and observance were integral parts. They include those whose remembered experience was gleaned within different faiths: Anglican , Roman Catholic

Ruth McCurry in the Times Literary Supplement found this biography at once accurate and sympathetic. Saint Thérèse, said McCurry, could have been shown as a victim either of nineteenth-century provincial French society, or of an...

This short novel, a blend of fairytale, adventure story, didacticism, the occult, and a study of an orphan finding herself, is set in the seventh century in the kingdom of Dalriada (now the Isle of...

By the age of four, MG was already boarding at Pensionnat Saint-Louis de Gonzague, a Jansenist convent in Montreal, on Sherbrooke Street East, the same street on which she lived. She was the only...

Her family was Scottish; they converted from the Scottish Episcopalian Church to Roman Catholicism too early for her to remember it. They were cosmopolitan in culture.

She was born into the Scottish gentry, and her family originally belonged to the Scottish Episcopalian Church , which is to say they were Anglican. Following her mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism , EG and...

AG , a fervent Christian believer, seems to have remained in the Church of England , in which she was brought up, but her many printed pleas for religious ecumenism may have been fuelled by...

In an essay signed A Rustic Rambler, ATG compared the forms of Roman Catholicism practised in England and in Continental Europe.

The book features as its heroine Aimée Furniss, a recent graduate from Newnham College who has just taken up her first position teaching at a girls' school. Though she finds teaching rewarding, her experiences with...

For a year of her childhood she was brought up by High Anglican aunts; but she remained ecumenical and open-minded in her attitude to religion. In 1943 she wrote that if she believed in anything...

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 her family was tolerant in religious matters. They were Anglicans , but when one of the brothers became both a Roman Catholic and a Jesuit priest, his conversion does not seem to have...

Charlotte's brother John became a Jesuit priest after converting to Roman Catholicism , without apparently upsetting the family.

MG 's enthusiasms led her in several successive directions in religion. In November 1891 she became a member of the Rosicrucian Order of the Golden Dawn . On 17 February 1903, immediately before marrying John MacBride

Born in Ireland of presumably white, probably Anglo-Irish heritage, CG converted to Catholicism in 1896.