Roman Catholic Church

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...

Linked Lives features another orphan heroine, the well-born, highly romantic Mabel Forrester. The purpose of the novel is to show Mabel's progress towards embracing the Roman Catholic faith. Mabel, however, virtually shares the position of...

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...

MDF 's first poem here, Innocence in Bonds, A Dialogue dated 14 August 1780, in which the speakers are Truth and the Muse, refers to her previous publication, to martyrs (implicitly Protestants) who died at...

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

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...

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...

In this text, Warner traces the ways that the figure of the Virgin Mary has been used and changed over time in many cultures and for many reasons. She is critical of the Catholic Church

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...

Critic Elaine V. Beilin discerns the influence on AD 's text of John Foxe 's Actes and Monuments, 1563. Her comment on the martyrdom of de Bourg is particularly explicit in its critique...

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...

The Catholic clergy (in the person of Father Jim Corkran) comes under particular fire as selfish and insensible of Irish needs. The priest of Peatstown guides by fear and is utterly devoid of dignity, either...

This novel is set in France, England, and Ireland. The action occurs in the seventeenth century as a Huguenot girl escapes oppression in France by fleeing to England and then Ireland...

She expresses here an interest in comparative religion which may distantly herald her eventual conversion. She refers to the battering-ram qualities of Protestantism and the charmed and glorified, the rich and magical atmosphere of Catholic