Roman Catholic Church

FN experienced a time of religious rebirth after receiving another call from God on 7 May 1852. That summer and autumn, as her disillusionment with the Anglican Church increased, she considered becoming a Roman Catholic

DS grew up in a highly-educated, intellectual, Irish-Catholic family. Both her parents were writers, as was her sister. Her childhood home was a centre of intellectual activity in Dublin, and prominent Irish literary...

JB converted to Catholicism (as her poems relate), and to its attendant difficulties and discrimination.

MCC was born into a professional, English family of European extraction (her father was half Italian and her mother half German) and Roman Catholic religion. Mary writes of her early, Catholic church attendance in terms...

Her father, a Protestant, called Catholicism a good religion for a girl. From domestic activities with her Italian mother and maids in what she terms the basement world of female secrets, she learned about...

RH 's belief in spiritualism was in conflict with her Catholicism . The Catholic Church did not condone spiritualism and she could not find a confessor who approved of her meetings with the medium she...

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 )...

FM attended her first seance, by permission of her (Roman Catholic ) spiritual director, Father Dalgairns of Brompton Oratory.

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...

She was brought up a Baptist (baptised into that church at the age of thirteen). She later moved away from the god of her childhood (a god of vengeance, she said). Very much wishing to...

The Times obituary of PF describes her as coming from a gifted Jewish family on her father's side, but it was not an observant family. G. B. Stern refers to PF

MW and her husband converted together to Roman Catholicism , after only six sessions of instruction.

She came from a well-educated, Bohemian family of atheists who, however, sent her to a Roman Catholic school.

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...

On the publication of her first book, the Critical Review implied that some of her opinions sounded like those of a Catholic . Defending herself, MB claimed to be irreproachably orthodox, that is Anglican ...