Roman Catholic Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Jean Rhys
JR was at one time attracted to Catholicism , mostly practised by the black people on the island. There was considerable prejudice against Catholicism, and many horror stories about the nuns
Rhys, Jean, and Diana Athill. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography. 1st ed., Deutsch, 1979.
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circulated amongst the...
Cultural formation Emily Hickey
Brought up as an Anglican in the Church of Ireland , she devoted herself with increasing fervour to her religion. Later she converted and became an extremely devout Catholic .
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 167
Peterson, William S. Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. Ohio University Press, 1969.
17, 18
Cultural formation Annie Keary
She then went through a spiritual night
Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan, 1882.
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of doubt and perplexity after a passionate persuasion by a Carmelite nun friend to become a Catholic .
Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan, 1882.
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She next became a High Church Anglican ...
Cultural formation Anne Askew
AA was a white Englishwoman from the gentry class. Though her grandparents were Roman Catholics , it seems that her father and others in her family favoured the Reformed or Protestant religion.
Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press, 1996.
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Cultural formation Agnes Wenman
She belonged to the English gentry class, but within her class she belonged to a disadvantaged minority: she was, like her family, a recusant Catholic .
Cultural formation Coventry Patmore
After the death of his first wife , CP converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Frances Sarah Hoey
John Hoey was a devout Roman Catholic, and on her marriage FSH converted to Catholicism . Catholicism is not usually an issue in her fiction (with the exception of the anti-divorce novel Out of Court...
Cultural formation Aphra Behn
Her later Roman Catholicism (which some commentators dispute) may have had family roots, for there was some talk of her entering a convent.
Leibell, Sister Helen Dominica. Anglo-Saxon Education of Women: From Hilda to Hildegarde. B. Franklin, 1971.
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Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
33-4
Cultural formation Catherine Cookson
She was baptised a Roman Catholic , though her family did not practise: this was called being a wooden Catholic. The interdenominational hatred in the area was fierce and dangerous. After her first confession...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland
Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland , was finally received into the Catholic Church , years after her reading in the Catholic Fathers had first made her wish to do this.
Serjeantson, R. W. “Elizabeth Cary and the Great Tew Circle”. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680, edited by Heather Wolfe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 165-82.
167 and n11
Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, 1994, pp. 1 - 59; various pages.
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Cultural formation Maud Gonne
MG 's enthusiasms led her in several successive directions in religion. In November 1891 she became a member of the Rosicrucian Order of the Golden Dawn . On 17 February 1903, immediately before marrying John MacBride
Cultural formation Mary Howitt
MH was received into the Roman Catholic Church after receiving dispensations to keep using her English Bible and to be buried with her husband in the Protestant Cemetery.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
254
Cultural formation Dervla Murphy
Baptised and brought up a Catholic , DM took her Confirmation, First Confession, and First Communion with deep seriousness.
Murphy, Dervla. Wheels within Wheels. J. Murray, 1979.
63
She later suspected that she took her first step away from orthodox religion when various...
Cultural formation Carol Rumens
Born into the English lower middle class, Carol-Ann spent her early childhood in London, where her immediate family shared a gloomy, unwelcoming house owned by her grandparents in Forest Hill, living as [t]wo families...
Cultural formation Charlotte Grace O'Brien
CGOB converted to Catholicism from the Church of Ireland .
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

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.
352

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.
692

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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