Roman Catholic Church

BRP described herself as having been born in the very bosom of Puritan England, and fed daily upon the strict letter of the Scripture from aged lips which I regarded with profound reverence. Her...

When she was reduced to looking for work as a governess she found it a disadvantage to be not a member of the Church of England.

Born to an upper-class, religiously mixed (or divided) couple, CH chose the Catholicism of her gentle mother in preference to the Protestantism of her severe and earnest father before she understood what Catholicism meant.

She was brought up a Baptist (baptised into that church at the age of thirteen). She later moved away from the god of her childhood (a god of vengeance, she said). Very much wishing to...

DS grew up in a highly-educated, intellectual, Irish-Catholic family. Both her parents were writers, as was her sister. Her childhood home was a centre of intellectual activity in Dublin, and prominent Irish literary...

Confirmed as a Roman Catholic as a child, GG at fourteen was into fasting and kneeling in prayer in the church for hours on end, in a fervour which she later identified as sexual. Her...

EF 's father, born an orthodox Jew, was non-practising; he did not have his children baptised, though their mother taught them to say Christian prayers. Eleanor's upbringing was Bohemian and unconventional: she did not attend...

During this London visit she is said to have converted others to Catholicism and to have had an ecstatic vision of her own. She experienced another vision two years later, and another at St Omer...

CD grew up in the Church of Scotland , but converted to Roman Catholicism in 1891 after a decade living in France.

At some time before her death, AH converted to Catholicism (which had been her father's religion).

In 1929 UT began to question the Catholic Church's position on sexual inversion. She felt disillusioned by the Church authorities: I begin to doubt whether authority has any place where the invert may lay...

Towards the end of this period of involvement with Catholicism , FN received a second call from God, directing her to devote her life entirely to him. She apparently experienced similar calls in 1850, 1853...

VA was received back into the Catholic Church on the anniversary of her first reception into it.

LC was born to an Irish Catholic mother and a Protestant English father.

MP was born into an upper-middle class family. His father, Adrian , was a Catholic doctor and his mother, born Jeanne Weils , was a wealthy Jewish heiress. When she died, Marcel inherited aproximately 1,350,000...