Roman Catholic Church

A long novel with a complex plot, Grantley Manor concerns the trials of both Anglican and Catholic heroines, and the human cost of religious prejudice. It opens on the motherless Margaret Leslie growing up an...

The main character, Maja Carmen Carrera, a black Jazz singer, immigrated from Cuba to London when she was five years old. Pregnant and living with her (white) Ghanaian husband (Aaron, a doctor), Maja struggles to...

Naomi Royde-Smith noted that almost all of its characters have names, pseudonyms and aliases, and that it makes some criticism of the Church of England as well as the Catholic Church (but not of...

The clash between Nonconformist and Roman Catholic faith dominates this book. While Hobbes was said to be privately hostile to the protestantism in which she was raised, the novel is relatively balanced in its exploration...

It is set in the late nineteenth-century on the boundary between Westmorland and Lancashire, an exquisite country whose landscape has a profound effect in the narrative. Alan Helbeck, of an old Catholic family...

Brought up in Italy and neglected by her parents, the eponymous heroine of Victoria causes consternation at the age of ten by announcing that she has converted to Catholicism . When her father demands whether...

The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius , John Wesley , and Tolstoy . In Dante and Botticelli she argues from her two Italian examples that the best possible training for...

SM 's topic here is sexuality in relation to a life vowed to celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church . Her protagonist, Sister Anna, is a missionary nun in Latin America. She is in...

CS sets up a dichotomy between Protestantism , which is based on the truth of Scripture, and Catholicism , which rests on legends. Without the Bible, she writes, men would be mere weeds in...

COCE opens by making two points which might seem at variance with each other: the fascination which the past holds for later generations, and their ignorance of its discomforts and inconvenience. In a note she...

Written specifically for use in Sunday Schools, it relates the sufferings of Protestant Martyrs such as Anne Askew , Katherine Hut , and Elizabeth Thackvel . The sufferings of Anne Askew (here seen as martyr...

The primacy of Christianity, and especially the Roman Catholic faith, underpins the novel's morality. As a child Princess Charlotte has been inoculated against faith, but she later rebels against this training. She is instructed in...

Here she does not spare her vituperation against the new king's Catholic advisors, and is equally outspoken in her own resolve to sacrifice one hundred lives in the king's service if she had them.

The first half of the book details the deaths of several patients in the cholera wards whom CM had visited and talked with about God. The second half asks the reader: Are you safe there...

The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and...