Roman Catholic Church

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, she wrote later that for years...

CB 's mother practised strict Catholic ism while her father, who came from a fundamentalist dissenting home, professed agnostic beliefs. Raised and educated in the Catholic faith, CB married an English Roman Catholic. In regard...

FD belonged to the British nobility (with a Scottish father and English mother), but her mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism (as well as other family circumstances) made her experience different from most members of her...

Both of KCT 's parents were Irish Catholics , and in comfortable financial circumstances. Her birth family was comprised of professionals and merchants, members of the rising middle class. Her childhood home...

AP may have converted to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism by this date; certainly she had by 1851.

All that came to her, she believed, came by illumination because of a past birth, and because she pushed [herself] on to a point of spiritual evolution somewhat in advance of the rest of...

She was a Christian believer of sentimental cast, who liked to see spiritual significance in details of her life. Brought up as an Anglican , she learned from a French Catholic servant to cherish and...

Protestant minister John Dunmore Lang 's bitter anti-Catholic denunciation of CC 's immigration work prompted lively correspondence in the Sydney Morning Herald.

COCE was born into the Irish, Roman Catholic , professional or gentry class, with descent from ancient royalty. Her family had great pride of race: when she was barely in her teens, genealogist John O'Hart

Born into the Hungarian nobility, she remained hierarchical in her ways of thinking, though her snobbishness was balanced by some skill with the common touch. Brought up a Roman Catholic , she became a committed...

GMH had found the liberal and progressive ethos of Balliol a strain, and set himself against it. His Anglican practices became more and more high, to the extent of making confession and kissing the...

VM 's childhood home was a cultural centre for Roman Catholics such as the poets Francis Thompson and Coventry Patmore . She was influenced by her parents' literary activities, as well as by her mother's...

She was brought up a Catholic but became a sceptic, apart from a continuing superstitious feeling about religion.

Some found BWC 's conversion to RomanCatholicism puzzling, but an anonymous friend explained it by saying that she needed certainty. She was always passionate, always anxious to conclude. She could not make a pillow of...

Her later years are to be seen in terms of her inner spiritual life as well as her public religious-political activities. Though her relations with the Jesuits and with the Papal Curia were often difficult...