Roman Catholic Church

HM was born into a wealthy business family which struck Virginia Woolf as typical[ly] English (though in fact both of her parents were Scots). She converted to Roman Catholicism in the late 1920s....

MEB 's mother, the daughter of a Catholic father and Protestant mother, was from county Cavan in Ireland. She brought up her daughter as a Protestant Anglican , but Mary Elizabeth was later tolerant...

After emerging first from the shortest bout of atheism on record and then from a vague indifference about religion, PF was received into the Roman Catholic Church .

Presumably white, DG was born into an upper-middle class family that was then comfortably off, but was financially devastated several years after her birth. Her religious allegiances present some confusion. She was brought up as...

The family was somewhat rigidly Quaker . As a girl MH entertained rebellious feelings about the severity of their religion, their ban on stylish clothes and artistic beauty. Early in her marriage she felt drawn...

EN became a Roman Catholic a couple of years after her husband had done so in 1900, but their practice of their new religion seems to have been the minimum required, and they did not...

FB was serious about her Anglican faith, but much more sympathetic towards Roman Catholicism , which was practised by her maternal grandmother, than most Anglicans of her day, even before she married a Catholic.

In about 1940 both NRS and her husband became converts to Roman Catholicism , a faith to which she was led by Evelyn Underhill and by two Jesuit priests, Martin d'Arcy (while she and her...

She was baptised in the Church of England but by 1912, MAD had converted to Catholicism . Her religious views are reflected in some of her writing.

Brought up a Geneva Protestant, he converted at the age of sixteen to Roman Catholicism , turned back to Protestantism in his forties, and eventually evolved his own belief in natural religion.

MF was an Englishwoman with some Irish heritage. From early childhood she felt puzzled about the status of women. She observed a discrepancy between the way she felt (the equal of boys) and the way...

This turbulent, restless and divided family was also unusual in being of mixed religion. Ann's mother was a Protestant and her father a Catholic . They followed the same system proposed for a mixed marriage...

She says she was indifferent to religion as a child, and was attracted to churches more by atmosphere than by any religious practice.On atmosphere, she leaned to the Catholic Church (she had first...

At seven, [l]ike every other little Catholic body, she was confirmed and made her first Communion. About this time, while endeavouring to achieve holiness, she felt her endeavour undermined or reversed by a startlingly mundane...

FOC was an American, Catholic of Irish descent, imbued with, though not wholly enamoured of, the traditions of the old South. She is on record as saying: I sure am sick of the Civil...