Roman Catholic Church

GMH had found the liberal and progressive ethos of Balliol a strain, and set himself against it. His Anglican practices became more and more high, to the extent of making confession and kissing the...

In Devon she developed the religious tolerance that distinguishes her writing and helped her to bridge the gap between the Jewish and Christian literary communities. Here she came into contact with provincial English Protestantism, which...

Lady Falkland 's four youngest daughters grew up while their mother was still nominally a Protestant and their father, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was systematically persecuting Catholics. After his death they lived as Protestants...

The early life of Chloe Wofford (later TM ) was shaped by her birth as a working-class African-American at the tail end of segregation. At twelve she became a Roman Catholic . In...

GD was born into the nobility, of a Scottish father and an English mother. Her mother altered the course of her life by converting to Roman Catholicism , which her elder daughter also enthusiastically embraced.

FS was born into the gentry class which populated the higher ranks of the military and diplomatic service. She grew up in touch with both sides of her dual national heritage, French on her mother's...

In 1926 GG converted to Roman Catholicism at the insistence of his fiancée, Vivien Dayrell-Browning . His baptism was a banal affair at a dark cathedral in Nottingham, full of inferior statues. He...

Her family had been Roman Catholic back in 1605, at the height of Catholic unrest and persecution of Catholics in England.EL , however, came from a liberal Unitarian background: her father (to whom...

Her family was mixed, her mother being an English Methodist and her father an Irish Catholic , who had moved away from his Celtic roots by changing his name from MacOwen to Owenson and his...

Brought up both by her teachers and by Katherine Parr in evangelical Protestantism, she developed into a pragmatic Anglican , probably both by conviction and by informed political choice. She exercised her diplomatic skills to...

SW grew up as a Roman Catholic in the British lower middle class (with English and Welsh roots, describing herself as Welsh). Like many others, her family had risen in the world, since her grandparents...

EJ was born an Englishwoman, and presumably white. In maturity she was a member of the Church of England (with a low opinion both of the Russian Orthodox and of the Roman Catholic Churches )...

FM attended her first seance, by permission of her (Roman Catholic ) spiritual director, Father Dalgairns of Brompton Oratory.

She was born into the English middle class (although her mother was Scottish, her maternal grandfather and her father served much abroad, and her paternal grandmother was American of German descent). Presumably white, she became...

Shortly before the revoking of the Edict of Nantes on 22 October (when as Protestants they would have lost their claim to tolerance and religious freedom) AD and her husband were received into the Roman Catholic Church