Roman Catholic Church

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Cultural formation Elizabeth Justice
EJ was born an Englishwoman, and presumably white. In maturity she was a member of the Church of England (with a low opinion both of the Russian Orthodox and of the Roman Catholic Churches )...
Cultural formation Florence Marryat
FM attended her first seance, by permission of her (Roman Catholic ) spiritual director, Father Dalgairns of Brompton Oratory.
Neisius, Jean Gano. Acting the Role of Romance: Text and Subtext in the Work of Florence Marryat. Texas Christian University, May 1992.
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Cultural formation Valentine Ackland
VA was received back into the Catholic Church on the anniversary of her first reception into it.
Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora, 1988.
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Cultural formation Leonora Carrington
LC was born to an Irish Catholic mother and a Protestant English father.
Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press, 2017.
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Cultural formation John Donne
JD was brought up in the old religion, as a Roman Catholic . He was probably already deep in theological study, undertaken for his own satisfaction, when during the year that he turned twenty-one his...
Cultural formation Winefrid Thimelby
She was a cradle Catholic born into an English gentry family which harboured priests, celebrated the mass in secret, and suffered persecution for their faith. A recent commentator, Dorothy L. Latz , regrets the way...
Cultural formation Jane Barker
Her father belonged to and participated in the local affairs of the Church of England (into which Jane was baptised), but her mother's family had a tradition of Roman Catholicism , to which as an...
Cultural formation Kate Chopin
KC had a cultural heritage which was both French Creole (her mother's family had come to Louisiana centuries earlier from northern France) and Irish. She was a presumably white American, of a well-to-do...
Cultural formation Muriel Spark
MS was received into the Roman Catholic Church by a Maltese priest, Dom Ambrose Agius (or Aegius), whom she had met earlier at the Poetry Society .
Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable, 1992.
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Cultural formation Dorothea Gerard
Her family was Scottish; they converted from the Scottish Episcopalian Church to Roman Catholicism too early for her to remember it.
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under Sir Montagu Gilbert Gerard
They were cosmopolitan in culture.
Cultural formation Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
By December 1860 BLSB was sufficiently interested in Roman Catholicism (to which Bessie Rayner Parkes later converted) to write about her interest to George Eliot , who responded with sympathy but a clear statement of...
Cultural formation Louisa Stuart Costello
Her family were professional people of Irish extraction.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
The fact that her brother received Anglican baptism years after his birth suggests that the family may perhaps have been Catholics before that.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Cultural formation Eleanor Farjeon
The influence of Denys Blakelock seems to have been decisive in EF 's reception into the Catholic Church in August 1951, not long after her honeymoon with the actor. This event, which she presented to...
Cultural formation Flora Shaw
FS was born into the gentry class which populated the higher ranks of the military and diplomatic service. She grew up in touch with both sides of her dual national heritage, French on her mother's...
Cultural formation Graham Greene
In 1926 GG converted to Roman Catholicism at the insistence of his fiancée, Vivien Dayrell-Browning . His baptism was a banal affair at a dark cathedral in Nottingham, full of inferior statues.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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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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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