Roman Catholic Church

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...

Born to English parents, CMB came from a middle-class, presumably white background. Shortly after her birth her parents, Benjamin and Charlotte Law, converted to Catholicism . It seems that early fears over the infant Charlotte's...

Born into the rising English gentry and into the then nationally practised Roman Catholic faith, she later made choice of the new or reformed religion of Protestantism . (As the Puritan John Field put it...

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...

MAD converted to Roman Catholicism by the mid-1910s and explored religious issues in some of the writing she published during the period. For example, her devotional book Sanctuary (1916) contains a preface by Charles Galton

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...

Brought up as an Anglican in the Church of Ireland , she devoted herself with increasing fervour to her religion. Later she converted and became an extremely devout Catholic .

She then went through a spiritual night of doubt and perplexity after a passionate persuasion by a Carmelite nun friend to become a Catholic . She next became a High Church Anglican ...

DA was born into an English middle-class Roman Catholic family to middle-aged parents, and brought up in an affectionate home environment. She and her sisters were encouraged to read and write from an early age...

She was born into a supportive, professional English family. Travel in France and exposure to the Oxford Movement made EC consider converting to the Roman Catholic Church later in life. However, she remained...

Brought up and educated as a RomanCatholic , SACD lost hisfaith before he left school. He later adopted a fairly eclectic form of spiritualism.

Dora Amy Elles (later PW ) was a daughter of the Raj, an Englishwoman born into imperial military life in India while her father was serving in the British army there. She returned to England...

She was an Irishwoman and, it seems, a Roman Catholic , although perhaps resident in England and certainly capable of trenchant criticism of the practices of the Catholic Church of earlier generations.

VM 's childhood home was a cultural centre for Roman Catholics such as the poets Francis Thompson and Coventry Patmore . She was influenced by her parents' literary activities, as well as by her mother's...

Her father was, at least nominally, a Catholic, like innumerable generations before him. Her part-Jewish mother, baptised a Protestant, had to convert before her marriage. In childhood SB acquired briefly an intense Roman Catholic