Roman Catholic Church

At the end of the Second World War, GBS converted to Catholicism from her purely nominal Judaism.

Although brought up as a Protestant and confirmed while at school as an Anglican , IM later considered herself nothing more specific than a Christian fellow-traveller. At more than one stage of her life...

Born to an English propertied family that in her generation was part of the British colonial administrative class, DB incorporated her experiences in South America into some of her later writing. She was or became...

ES was received into the Roman Catholic Church at Farm Street Church in Mayfair.

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...

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...

Her father's death plunged the PresbyterianHW into a crisis of religious faith and a conviction that the goodness of God was a myth. Hating the Puritanism in which she had grown up, its stress...

SH had married as a RomanCatholic , but her new husband devoted himself with indefatigable Pains to bringing her back to the Church ofEngland . He recognized that he could hope to do this...

CGOB converted to Catholicism from the Church of Ireland .

Once established in Ireland, her family became practising members of the Church of Ireland: that is the Anglican Church. AMH encountered many practising Catholic s while living with her maternal step-grandfather , who often entertained...

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...

In Devon she developed the religious tolerance that distinguishes her writing and helped her to bridge the gap between the Jewish and Christian literary communities. Here she came into contact with provincial English Protestantism, which...

Lady Falkland 's four youngest daughters grew up while their mother was still nominally a Protestant and their father, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was systematically persecuting Catholics. After his death they lived as Protestants...

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.

JR was at one time attracted to Catholicism , mostly practised by the black people on the island. There was considerable prejudice against Catholicism, and many horror stories about the nuns circulated amongst the...