Roman Catholic Church

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Katherine Cecil Thurston
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.
McCormack, Declan. “The Butterfly on the Wheel”. The Independent, 24 Sept. 2000.
24 September 2000
Her childhood home...
Cultural formation Adelaide Procter
AP may have converted to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism by this date; certainly she had by 1851.
Sources conflict on the date of AP 's conversion, most of them dating it in 1851. Bessie Rayner Parkes
Cultural formation Anna Kingsford
As an adult, she converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism . She later became a vegetarian, and involved herself with two alternative movements, Spiritualism and Theosophy, before breaking away from the Theosophical Society to form the...
Cultural formation Mary McCarthy
She was born into the white American middle class. One of her grandparents was Jewish. The Catholic girlhood which she later wrote about was inflicted on her by her devout maternal grandparents.
Cultural formation Hélène Barcynska
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...
Cultural formation Caroline Chisholm
Protestant minister John Dunmore Lang 's bitter anti-Catholic denunciation of CC 's immigration work prompted lively correspondence in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
81-4
Cultural formation Charlotte O'Conor Eccles
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
Cultural formation Jane Squire
She was born into the English upper middle class and was a devout Roman Catholic , who stuck with her religion even when she was denied civil rights on this account.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Jane Owen
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...
Cultural formation Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington
She was brought up a Catholic but became a sceptic, apart from a continuing superstitious feeling about religion.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J., Jr Lovell, Princeton University Press, 1969, pp. 3-114.
14
Cultural formation Blanche Warre Cornish
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...
Cultural formation Mary Ward
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...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Inchbald
She came from a family of Catholic farmers, middle-class people who were liked and respected by the local gentry.
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
3
Cultural formation John Henry Newman
The ex-Anglican leader and Tractarian JHN completed his conversion by being received into the Roman Catholic Church.
Ker, Ian. John Henry Newman: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1988.
316
Cultural formation Ann Bridge
AB was received into the Catholic Church in Farm Street, London, by Father Charles Martindale .
Hoehn, Matthew, editor. Catholic Authors. St Mary’s Abbey, 1952.

Timeline

Texts

No bibliographical results available.