Roman Catholic Church

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

AG , a fervent Christian believer, seems to have remained in the Church of England , in which she was brought up, but her many printed pleas for religious ecumenism may have been fuelled by...

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

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...

CG was an Irishwoman. She apparently disliked talking of her early life. All she would tell Laetitia Pilkington was that her parents were poor illiterate Country People. Illiterate meant merely uneducated. Though this sounds...

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...

Meanwhile in 1914, at a low ebb in her life, NJ converted to Roman Catholicism . She took instruction in the faith after reading Confessions of a Convert by R. H. Benson (a homosexual whose...

Brought up, educated, and ordained in the Anglican Church , JHN began, with others, to entertain fears for its future as a national church. Emancipation of Catholics and Dissenters led them to suppose that the...

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...

When UT travelled to Florence to visit cousins in 1907, she found herself attracted to the Catholic faith; she later converted to Roman Catholicism . She had previously studied various Eastern religions, including Buddhism, Bushido...

She was born into the English gentry and at a time of religious turmoil and change she probably held to the old religion of Catholicism , not openly but at least in sympathy, in view...

Two of the older children willingly followed their mother into the Roman Catholic Church. Florence and her twin went through the terrors of a first confession, but as she later put it, [h]uman nature does...

Very little is known about her early life. Presumably white, she was born to an upper-class family with relations in the peerage, Scottish on both sides. Late in life she converted to Roman Catholicism ...