Roman Catholic Church

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Cultural formation Alice Meynell
She said she joined the Catholic Church because of its administration of morals. Other Christian churches or sects . . . have the legislation of Christian morality but they do not enforce the law. The...
Cultural formation Marcel Proust
MP was born into an upper-middle class family. His father, Adrian , was a Catholic doctor and his mother, born Jeanne Weils , was a wealthy Jewish heiress. When she died, Marcel inherited aproximately 1,350,000...
Cultural formation John Oliver Hobbes
Pearl Craigie (JOH ) entered the Roman Catholic Church at a ceremony at St James's Church, Spanish Place, 22 George Street, London. She now assumed the name Pearl Mary-Teresa Richards Craigie.
Harding, Mildred Davis. Air-Bird in the Water. Associated University Presses, 1996.
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Cultural formation Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw
She was born into the Anglo-Irish or Ascendancy upper class, a Church of Ireland member with close blood ties to the dispossessed, Catholic , Irish nobility. Her family closely reflected the political and religious conflicts...
Cultural formation Anna Kingsford
AK was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church three years after her marriage, at least in part to avoid the duties of a vicar's wife.
Pert, Alan. Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford. Books and Writers, 2006.
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Maitland, Edward. Anna Kingsford. George Redway, 1896, 2 vols.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Dante Alighieri
He was born into the Florentine upper classes, and was a member of the Guelph or Guelf party in the wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, and later a supporter of the White Guelph party...
Cultural formation Ford Madox Ford
Born of mixed English and German heritage, and on both sides of middle-class families deeply involved in the practice of the arts, FMF converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of nineteen, but hardly seems...
Cultural formation Jane Squire
She was born into the English upper middle class and was a devout Roman Catholic , who stuck with her religion even when she was denied civil rights on this account.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Jane Owen
JO , a member of a family whose Established Church forebears had acquired wealth a couple of generations back, was a fervent Catholic apparently from her birth, at a time when to be a Catholic...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Burnet
EB was born into an Englishgentry family. John Fell , Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University and the University Press ), was her...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Inchbald
She came from a family of Catholic farmers, middle-class people who were liked and respected by the local gentry.
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
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Cultural formation Kate Marsden
During this period KM converted officially to Roman Catholicism . In 1895 she founded the St Francis Leper Guild (which is still active today as the St Francis Leprosy Guild ).
Cultural formation Antonia White
When Eirene, later Antonia, was seven years old, her father converted to Catholicism —a decision that had a profound effect on her. She too became a Catholic and remained a nominal one all her life...
Cultural formation Christina Rossetti
She came of fully Italian blood on her father's side, and half-Italian, half-English on her mother's. In a piece on Petrarch , she claimed that family documents proved her descent from his muse, Laura...
Cultural formation Bessie Head
Brought up by a Roman Catholic foster-mother, sent to an Anglican mission school at thirteen and made to change her religion from one day to the next,
Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. 2nd edition, Wits University Press, 2007.
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she wrote later that for years...

Timeline

1928: Two separate researchers in Germany, Ogino...

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1928

Two separate researchers in Germany, Ogino and Knaus , discovered the hormonal patterns of the menstrual cycle. Based on their discovery, the Vatican sanctioned abstention for avoiding conception based on calculation by their method...

1930: The Roman Catholic Church reiterated its...

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1930

The Roman Catholic Church reiterated its continued non-acceptance of contraceptives in Pope Pius XI 's encyclical Casti connubii.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
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24 January 1960: The Catholic Church, through an Ecclesiastical...

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24 January 1960

The Catholic Church , through an Ecclesiastical Council called by Pope John XXIII, decreed that women in Rome who were deemed to be dressed inappropriately should be barred from receiving the sacraments of baptism...

10 May 1960: In the USA the FDA approved the use of the...

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10 May 1960

In the USA the FDA approved the use of the progestin oral contraceptive pill (marketed as Enovid). This had been developed by experimental scientist Gregory Pincus (later in collaboration with physician John Rock ), whom...

2 December 1960: Pope John XXIII met Dr Fisher, Archibishop...

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2 December 1960

Pope John XXIII met Dr Fisher , Archibishop of Canterbury, at the Vatican.
Allen, John L., Jr. “The Word from Rome”. New Catholic Reporter, 10 Oct. 2003.

3 January 1962: Pope John XXIII excommunicated Cuban leader...

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3 January 1962

Pope John XXIII excommunicated Cuban leader Fidel Castro . This was in keeping with the Roman Catholic Church 's decree against its members joining communist organizations.
“Timeline: 1962”. Macrohistory and World Report.
“The Vatican”. Bartleby.com: Great Books Online: The Encyclopedia of World History.

11 October 1962: Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican...

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11 October 1962

Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Stanford, Peter. “How the Catholic Church Differs from Other Denominations”. BBC: Society and Culture: Religion and Ethics: Christianity: Subdivisions: The Catholic Church, pp. 1-3.
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3 June 1963: The death of the liberal Pope John XXIII...

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3 June 1963

The death of the liberal Pope John XXIII marked the end of a brief reforming period in the life of the Roman Catholic Church .
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
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1968: Mary Daly, an academic at the Jesuit-run...

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1968

Mary Daly , an academic at the Jesuit-run Boston College , published the first of her works in feminist theology, The Church and the Second Sex, an analysis of Roman Catholic and, more broadly,...

25 July 1968: Less than two months into his pontificate,...

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25 July 1968

Less than two months into his pontificate, Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical Humanae Vitae on The Regulation of Birth, reaffirming the Roman Catholic Church 's anti-contraceptive position.
Paul VI, Pope. “Humanae Vitae (On the Regulation of Birth): Encyclical Letter of His Holiness, promulgated on 25 July 1968”. EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network): Libraries: Document Library.

August 1969: Sectarian violence peaked in Northern Ireland:...

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August 1969

Sectarian violence peaked in Northern Ireland: in Derry nationalist protestors attacked the Royal Ulster Constabulary with bricks and petrol bombs, driving them out of the city's Catholic area of Bogside; in Belfast hundreds of families...

1973: US feminist theologian Mary Daly published...

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1973

US feminist theologian Mary Daly published Beyond God the Father, which she called a self-conferred diploma marking her graduation from the Catholic church.
Sturgis, Susanna J. “Mary Daly, Revolting Hag”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 3, May–June 2010, pp. 30-1.
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22 January 1973: In a case known as Roe v. Wade the US Supreme...

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22 January 1973

In a case known as Roe v. Wade the US Supreme Court ruled that abortion was legal in some circumstances, and that state legislation which totally criminalized abortion was therefore illegal.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
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Pilkington, Ed. “’These steps are covered with blood’”. The Guardian, 7 July 2009, pp. G2: 4 - 7.
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19 August 1977: The comedy Once a Catholic by Mary O'Malley...

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19 August 1977

The comedy Once a Catholic by Mary O'Malley opened at the Royal Court Theatre ; it transferred to the West End later this year and won a string of awards.
Wandor, Michelene. Understudies. Methuen, 1981.
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14 January 1994: Katharine, Duchess of Kent, converted to...

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14 January 1994

Katharine, Duchess of Kent , converted to Catholicism , becoming the first Roman Catholic member of the British Royal Family in more than 300 years.
“1994: Duchess of Kent joins Catholic church”. BBC News: On This Day, 14 Jan. 1994.

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