Roman Catholic Church

Her parents—Margaret Foster and Henry Thompson —were of IrishCatholic extraction, descendants of immigrants who had come to work for the textile mills. They were working class of little education, with distant, painful memories...

Protestantism was a central part of that family identity which she found oppressive. After her husband died she first took up spiritualism. then converted to Roman Catholicism , and later became a Theosophist.

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 grew up in an Irish landowning, philanthropic family that owned a third of County Galway. On her father's side she descended from an Anglo-Norman Catholic family; her grandfather was brought up a Protestant

GT was a member of an English gentry family who became Roman Catholics during her childhood. Her minority religious allegiance shaped her life.

CB 's mother practised strict Catholic ism while her father, who came from a fundamentalist dissenting home, professed agnostic beliefs. Raised and educated in the Catholic faith, CB married an English Roman Catholic. In regard...

It seems her family was tolerant in religious matters. They were Anglicans , but when one of the brothers became both a Roman Catholic and a Jesuit priest, his conversion does not seem to have...

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

When UT travelled to Florence to visit cousins in 1907, she found herself attracted to the Catholic faith; she later converted to Roman Catholicism . She had previously studied various Eastern religions, including Buddhism, Bushido...

Protestant minister John Dunmore Lang 's bitter anti-Catholic denunciation of CC 's immigration work prompted lively correspondence in the Sydney Morning Herald.

CG remained a member of the Church of England (with Low Church or Evangelical sympathies) although her first husband was a Dissenter and she often felt in Wales that the Dissenters were doing a better...

AS has been discussed as a religious writer who, slightly ahead of her time, intuited the need for a feminist revision of patriarchal monotheism. She centred a play on the Roman Catholic Mass, and some...

AB was confirmed an Anglican in Paris in the spring of 1862. She was fascinated by Catholicism , but the writing of the Oxford Movement convinced her of the similarity between Anglicanism and Catholicism. After...

Some found BWC 's conversion to RomanCatholicism puzzling, but an anonymous friend explained it by saying that she needed certainty. She was always passionate, always anxious to conclude. She could not make a pillow of...

Perhaps influenced by her friend Eleanor Hamilton King , or by John Henry Newman , EH converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism , which she dubbed her great and beautiful inheritance.