Roman Catholic Church

This traces mystical beliefs and practice from the Bible, through the early days of Christianity, the medieval Catholic mysticism of England and various European countries, to seventeenth-century Protestant beliefs and practices, and finally to...

Centred on a corrupt, alcoholic Catholic priest, who is never named, it is one of six of Greene's novels that take Catholicism as a central theme. GG thought it the most satisfactory of his novels....

The novel consistently attacks Roman Catholics as prejudiced, supersititious, and dangerously under the thrall of their priests. Through O'Brien, HJ blames the poor for their own poverty, painting them as stupidly resistant to change that...

This book takes up some of the same themes as The Lardners and the Laurelwoods, 1948. Through its narrator, the not entirely sympathetically presented Parson Carpenter, this novel offers another two-generation story of the...

EU celebrates the life of this singer, poet, lawyer, and mystic as one marked by extraordinary (Catholic ) spiritual awareness, though his texts have not been officially adopted by the Church: Called, like Dante

It tells in autobiographical style of the dangerous alternative seductions of loss of faith and of conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism .

RL sets out to portray Dante and Beatrice's relationship in the context of the social and political conditions that surrounded them, while simultaneously arguing that the Divina Commedia emerged from this real love, this...

These jaunty poems contrast with a gothic-toned narrative about a party of boar-hunters who are joined by a mysterious White Knight who seems to be on a temporary pass out of Hell. SP speculates on...

Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...

MR 's account of her first voyage (based on journals kept at the time) enthusiastically describes tropical birds, flying fish, marine phosphorescence, and waterspouts; the markets, salt pans, and mountains of St Kitts. She...

Like Mysticism, this book displays great erudition. EU draws on research into eleven (mainly Christian) religious denominations to synthesize the nature, principles, and chief expressions of the human response to and relationship with the...

SH 's letter begins by rebutting the charge of female inconstancy. It is, she writes, matter of great Humiliation to me to admit her theological mistake and to change her mind. One criticism she...

She says here that it is learned men, not women, who are responsible for misreadings of the Bible. Women were the first to see the risen Christ, and are allowed to read for themselves now...

The second part is devoted to France. MDF laments the ancien regime as she sees it, a collection of evils produced by Catholicism : slavery, despotism, the Bastille, and the Inquisition . She identifies...

Commissioned by a London publishing house to write about the Mexican Catholic church , GG travelled to Mexico.