Roman Catholic Church

In about 1940 both NRS and her husband became converts to Roman Catholicism , a faith to which she was led by Evelyn Underhill and by two Jesuit priests, Martin d'Arcy (while she and her...

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...

GJ at this time began to question her religious faith; she apparently sought the counsel of a Catholic priest, but found it unsatisfying. Having read an essay by Thomas Carlyle during the Christmas...

Her parents—Margaret Foster and Henry Thompson —were of IrishCatholic extraction, descendants of immigrants who had come to work for the textile mills. They were working class of little education, with distant, painful memories...

Brought up a Catholic , KOBlost her faith while still at school; however, even without intellectual belief, she retained a strong emotional attachment to the religion of her forebears. Lorna Reynolds calls her a...

Two of the older children willingly followed their mother into the Roman Catholic Church. Florence and her twin went through the terrors of a first confession, but as she later put it, [h]uman nature does...

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

She was an Irish gentlewoman and apparently a Roman Catholic or ex-Catholic, though of heterodox tendencies. She goes into some detail in discussing the doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church, but is highly critical...

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...

Protestant minister John Dunmore Lang 's bitter anti-Catholic denunciation of CC 's immigration work prompted lively correspondence in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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

BRP , who had long ceased to be a Unitarian and become an agnostic, experienced a gradual change in religious beliefs, which ended in her conversion to Roman Catholicism .

CH (now in correspondence with the Prioress of St Monica's in Louvain) wrote a letter to inform her father that her historical studies had convinced her that the true religion was Catholicism .

HM was born into a wealthy business family which struck Virginia Woolf as typical[ly] English (though in fact both of her parents were Scots). She converted to Roman Catholicism in the late 1920s....

She was brought up a Catholic but became a sceptic, apart from a continuing superstitious feeling about religion.