Roman Catholic Church

FTJ was brought up as a Catholic . Her paternal ancestors were writers, poets, theologians, and historians, while her maternal ancestors were colliery owners. By the time of her birth, her family had lost its...

As a child, VA was a fervent Anglo-Catholic, following her mother's example. Later in life she became a Roman Catholic , struggled with her Catholicism, and eventually became a Quaker .

AC 's mother was a Roman Catholic and the two attended church together for much of her childhood.AC felt a great comfort in attending mass with her mother and remembers, fondly, the smell...

After her mother 's conversion Lady Gertrude Douglas (later GD ) lost no time in becoming a Catholic herself. She was received into the Church as soon as she arrived in France.

In the aftermath of his trial, OW was widely pilloried in the press, his homosexuality abused by all of the covert means available. He became a convert to Roman Catholicism .

MAR 's life was shaped by the Roman Catholic identity of her mother and husband, though her father belonged to the established church and she was herself baptised as an Anglican.

Rose, who was pregnant and soon to give birth when her husband fled into exile, consulted Cranmer , Latimer , and Ridley as to whether it would be betraying her faith to have the child...

She was, like the whole population of England in her day, a Roman Catholic ; she was suspected, but acquitted, of the heresy of Lollardy . After a prolific married life, she became a celibate.

During this period KM converted officially to Roman Catholicism . In 1895 she founded the St Francis Leper Guild (which is still active today as the St Francis Leprosy Guild ).

Early in life, HC also saw both of her parents suffer racism. At three years old, she discovered what being Jewish meant in Oran. When her father, a military officer during the war, took...

Both of GBS 's parents were Jewish: her ancestors, some of them upper-class, hailed from Austria (before that from the present-day Czech Republic) or from Germany; yet her life-writings display a confident and unproblematic sense...

She clearly sprang from an educated segment of society, probably the gentry. It seems fairly certain that she was a Roman Catholic .

Edith Cooper and Katharine Harris Bradley (known as the poet MF ) were each received into the Roman Catholic Church.

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...

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...