Roman Catholic Church

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text May Laffan
ML repeats here the cautious approbation of religiously mixed marriage that she voiced in Hogan, M.P. Such marriages, she suggests, can bring disparate cultures together, but only if they are contracted with respect and love...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Michèle Roberts
Here MR recounts her experiences as a budding writer and a member of the women's movement in London. She writes of her Catholic upbringing, of living in communes and building and surviving relationships. Her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marie Belloc Lowndes
The title of Not All Saints comes from an Irish proverb which is quoted on the title-page. The novel looks at Catholic girls growing up. The orphaned Netta Heath cheerfully faces the necessity of earning...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Muriel Spark
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).
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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She was to write again, in The Only Problem...
Textual Production Marie Belloc Lowndes
Only a few months later there came from MBL another war novel, Lilla: A Part of her Life, about a woman whose husband is presumed lost in action but returns to find her remarried...
Textual Production May Laffan
Many of ML 's letters to the publishing firm of Macmillan (to George Augustin Macmillan especially) survive. In 1884 she wrote a short manifesto on education for Catholic girls in the form of a letter...
Textual Production Evelyn Waugh
After EW 's book on Dante Gabriel Rossetti , which was connected with his early ambition to be an artist, came a number of biographically-oriented works which sprang from his Catholic faith. His lives of...
Textual Production Charlotte Mary Brame
Tales from the Diary of a Sister of Mercy was put out by the Catholic publishing firm of Burns and Oates : the Sisters of Mercy belonged to an Irish nursing Order. The book seems...
Textual Production Elizabeth Grymeston
In the first edition EG 's own prefatory epistle introduces fourteen chapters or sections. The book was clearly popular, since further editions followed in probably 1606, probably 1608 (with the altered title Miscellanea. Prayers. Meditations...
Textual Production Adelaide Procter
AP published A Chaplet of Verses, a slim volume in aid of the Providence Row Night Refuge for Homeless Women and Children in Moorfields, London, England's first Catholic refuge of this type.
This...
Textual Production Sarah Wentworth Morton
SWM also pioneered the sonnet in America and wrote hymns for several different denominations. Her tolerance for different beliefs and movements appears in Reanimation, a Hymn for the Humane Society (an organization dedicated to saving...
Textual Production Mary Astell
An occasional conformity bill was currently being debated, though it was not until 1711 that the practice of occasional conformity (whereby known Dissenters or Roman Catholics circumvent the ban on anyone except Anglicans holding public...
Textual Production Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
Henry Moore included in his life of MBF two letters she wrote to Samuel Walter (one before and one after he came as curate to Madeley) and two which she wrote to an unnamed Roman Catholic
Textual Production Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
Charlotte Elizabeth (later Tonna) published her first proselytizing religious pamphlet, A Friendly Address to Converts from the Roman Catholic Church.
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Catherine Sinclair
While in her works for young people CS gained a reputation for keeping a bright tone even in moralising, her writing for adults centres on heavily didactic texts in opposition to the Roman Catholic Church

Timeline

10 July 1994: Pope John Paul II published a letter to the...

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10 July 1994

Pope John Paul II published a letter to the world's women admitting that the Church had discriminated against them, but maintaining his reactionary stance on gender issues.

Summer 2005: News broke that one of the bestselling nonfiction...

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Summer 2005

News broke that one of the bestselling nonfiction books of the year, Judith Kelly 's Rock Me Gently, included passages almost verbally identical with passages by other authors.

21 April 2011: Hundreds of Anglicans converted to the Roman...

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21 April 2011

Hundreds of Anglicans converted to the Roman Catholic Church , with the blessing of Pope Benedict XVI, because they were not prepared to countenance the consecration of women bishops.

April 2012: The Leadership Conference of Women Religious,...

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April 2012

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious , which represents about 80 percent of American Roman Catholic nuns, was sharply reprimanded by the Vatican 's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for serious doctrinal problems.
Pullella, Philip. “Vatican tells U. S. nuns its doctrine is <span data-tei-ns-tag="">supreme</span&gt”;. Edmonton Journal, p. A21.

25 April 2013: A bill to end succession to the crown based...

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25 April 2013

A bill to end succession to the crown based on male primogeniture was passed by the British parliament.
“Law ending exclusively male royal succession now law”. BBC News UK.

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