Roman Catholic Church

COCE was born into the Irish, Roman Catholic , professional or gentry class, with descent from ancient royalty. Her family had great pride of race: when she was barely in her teens, genealogist John O'Hart

Born into the English professional class, GG became a RomanCatholic because of the woman he married. He always remained a Catholic, but his novels frequently treat the pain of conflicted religious belief, and late in...

Her husband, like her parents, was Roman Catholic . Despite periods when she neglected churchgoing or doubted her faith, she considered herself a Catholic to the end of her life. She was particularly devout in...

By birth and marriage LJL belonged to the English nobility. Her father was sharply attentive to issues of rank. LJL was born at almost the same time as the Church of England , and her...

Brought up a Catholic , KOBlost her faith while still at school; however, even without intellectual belief, she retained a strong emotional attachment to the religion of her forebears. Lorna Reynolds calls her a...

She was brought up a Catholic but became a sceptic, apart from a continuing superstitious feeling about religion.

Some found BWC 's conversion to RomanCatholicism puzzling, but an anonymous friend explained it by saying that she needed certainty. She was always passionate, always anxious to conclude. She could not make a pillow of...

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...

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...

He grew up surrounded by casual English and Ulster Protestant prejudice against Catholics , and was accustomed to being regarded as a second-class citizen. Though some commentators presented Heaney as no longer a believer, he...

Julian of Norwich was a Roman Catholic (like everyone in England at the time). It is not known when she became an anchoress, or what her life had been before that. Her family may have...

Shortly after her first release from prison, Irish nationalist Constance, Countess Markievicz, became a Roman Catholic .

She was an Irish gentlewoman and apparently a Roman Catholic or ex-Catholic, though of heterodox tendencies. She goes into some detail in discussing the doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church, but is highly critical...

AB was received into the Catholic Church in Farm Street, London, by Father Charles Martindale .

SD grew up in a working-class family in Lancashire. Though her father was Catholic as well as half-Irish, she did not consider herself to be Catholic. When she became famous at the age of...