Roman Catholic Church

GD was born into the nobility, of a Scottish father and an English mother. Her mother altered the course of her life by converting to Roman Catholicism , which her elder daughter also enthusiastically embraced.

EJ was born an Englishwoman, and presumably white. In maturity she was a member of the Church of England (with a low opinion both of the Russian Orthodox and of the Roman Catholic Churches )...

FM attended her first seance, by permission of her (Roman Catholic ) spiritual director, Father Dalgairns of Brompton Oratory.

Her family was mixed, her mother being an English Methodist and her father an Irish Catholic , who had moved away from his Celtic roots by changing his name from MacOwen to Owenson and his...

Brought up both by her teachers and by Katherine Parr in evangelical Protestantism, she developed into a pragmatic Anglican , probably both by conviction and by informed political choice. She exercised her diplomatic skills to...

SW grew up as a Roman Catholic in the British lower middle class (with English and Welsh roots, describing herself as Welsh). Like many others, her family had risen in the world, since her grandparents...

She was a cradle Catholic born into an English gentry family which harboured priests, celebrated the mass in secret, and suffered persecution for their faith. A recent commentator, Dorothy L. Latz , regrets the way...

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...

Shortly before the revoking of the Edict of Nantes on 22 October (when as Protestants they would have lost their claim to tolerance and religious freedom) AD and her husband were received into the Roman Catholic Church

MS was received into the Roman Catholic Church by a Maltese priest, Dom Ambrose Agius (or Aegius), whom she had met earlier at the Poetry Society .

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.

While a young woman CT converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism , the religion of her mother's family. In 1704 she maintained that differences among different branches of the Christian religion were of no importance...

FS was born into the gentry class which populated the higher ranks of the military and diplomatic service. She grew up in touch with both sides of her dual national heritage, French on her mother's...

She was born into the English middle class (although her mother was Scottish, her maternal grandfather and her father served much abroad, and her paternal grandmother was American of German descent). Presumably white, she became...

In 1926 GG converted to Roman Catholicism at the insistence of his fiancée, Vivien Dayrell-Browning . His baptism was a banal affair at a dark cathedral in Nottingham, full of inferior statues. He...