Roman Catholic Church

BB was born into the English lower middle class. She says her family had been quite well off until the slump of 1929, but then they had lost everything. She converted to Catholicism during her...

MMG is a Roman Catholic , and commented in a 25 June 1990 interview with Susan Shaw Seiler that relations between Roman Catholics and Protestants in Belfast are very different from what they were when...

HD 's poetry reflects her identity as a white Roman Catholic Englishwoman.

It was after his divorce, in 1930, that EW converted to Catholicism . He was received into the Church on 29 September that year.

AS 's Catholic childhood was an apparent anomaly in twentieth-century Inverness, her family being one of only four Catholic families in a long street. Her particular Catholicism was, as she calls it, a...

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...

During the Interregnum, Susanna Harvey (later Hopton) became a Roman Catholic convert. Her conversion was said to reflect the influence of Henry Turberville , a priest who was extremely influential in his lifetime and (through...

She was brought up in a presumably white, English, middle-class household, heaede by a manufacturer father and without a mother (who died when she was very young). She converted to Roman Catholicism at a very...

BWC 's family was lowland Scottish in origin though now established in England or overseas. They belonged to the gentry or professional class. She was confirmed at about fifteen in the Anglican Church , and...

Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection , and an Irish, originally Catholic , father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish...

MW was a pious Catholic as a child: she was said to shun sports and pastimes, preferring to read spiritual books, to perform exercises of penance like wearing a rough, uncomfortable girdle, and to humble...

CG remained a member of the Church of England (with Low Church or Evangelical sympathies) although her first husband was a Dissenter and she often felt in Wales that the Dissenters were doing a better...

When she was thirteen or fourteen EJ first began to question the Roman Catholic faith in which she was being brought up. But she remained a faithful (though troubled) Catholic, always closely concerned with religion...

She apparently felt the Catholic Church to be female: the great mother church of Christendom .

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