Roman Catholic Church

Something Odd! opens with a prefatory dialogue, The Author and his Pen, which consistently treats the author as male; he is addressed by the pen as master. It satirises both the Roman Catholic

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...

PW 's preface notes that adult travel books run to passages of an immoral tendency. Her Seymour family explore Europe: they see a mountain storm in Switzerland and an earthquake in Sicily. The...

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 award required that its winner spend three months in a foreign country, observing the ways of people in another culture. EJ felt most grateful for the enjoyable experience, terming her Italian travels the happiest...

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

The Lincoln's Inn Fields house of Lord Powis (recently released after years in prison on suspicion of treasonable Catholic plotting, father of future writers Lucy and Winifred ) was burned to the ground by chance...

That estimate covered what remained after giving large sums away, much of it to medical research. The Cookson mouse has been developed to bear the gene for haemorrhagic teleangiectasia: hopefully a step towards a cure...