Roman Catholic Church

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.

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.

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...

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...

Baptised and brought up a Catholic , DM took her Confirmation, First Confession, and First Communion with deep seriousness. She later suspected that she took her first step away from orthodox religion when various...

In her youth AB had a cousin who faithfully attended Mass. She later built friendships with several Anglican and Catholic clergy, visited monasteries in China and Albania during her travels, and eventually became a Roman Catholic

EMD was born into the middle class, and of a mixed marriage, her mother being Protestant and her father a Catholic who had abandoned his faith. With the money brought by her writing, EMD adopted...

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

Born into the English lower middle class, Carol-Ann spent her early childhood in London, where her immediate family shared a gloomy, unwelcoming house owned by her grandparents in Forest Hill, living as [t]wo families...

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...

EOB 's life and writing have been shaped by her Irish Catholic upbringing. Growing up in a sparsely populated, rural part of Ireland, EOB spoke English at home but studied the Irish language at school...

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.

JD was brought up in the old religion, as a Roman Catholic . He was probably already deep in theological study, undertaken for his own satisfaction, when during the year that he turned twenty-one his...