Roman Catholic Church

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...

Through religious allusion and diction, VM addresses the theme of sacred and profane love and explores the ethical dilemmas of a love triangle in a small village. Evan Davidstow, an altruistic lawyer, is caught between...

JS portrays Portugal too as an unhappy land, full of oppressive regulations and of officers exacting fines and fees from travellers. Upper-class women are virtual prisoners in their homes; marriage without consent is savagely punished...

This traces mystical beliefs and practice from the Bible, through the early days of Christianity, the medieval Catholic mysticism of England and various European countries, to seventeenth-century Protestant beliefs and practices, and finally to...

AS begins with the feelings that assailed her when she first stood on a summit and contemplated the prospect of transcendent magnificence, the peaks and glaciers of the Alps. Such, she says, is the prospect...

Nor does the new Catholic middle class escape unscathed, as ML emphasizes the unnecessary squalor of their dwellings. One house that Hogan visits seems on first glance full of plenty and sophistication, but daylight reveals...

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....

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...

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

JK 's style is plain, vigorous, and effective. She is consistently attentive to the details of women's lives and to the effects of history, politics, race, and religion in the various cultures she visits. Though...

JP paints the young Joan of Arc as deeply spiritual and already aspiring to sainthood: Jeannette knew that many girls and boys were interested in each other . . . . She wanted none of...

It tells in autobiographical style of the dangerous alternative seductions of loss of faith and of conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism .

The second part is devoted to France. MDF laments the ancien regime as she sees it, a collection of evils produced by Catholicism : slavery, despotism, the Bastille, and the Inquisition . She identifies...

The book's title comes from the book of Job (a text on which MS had planned a monograph, and did write a related article). She was to write again, in The Only Problem...

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...