Roman Catholic Church

EC 's parents must have been gentry, for they had a family motto: I never change. Brought up a Protestant, she was shaken by the anti-monarchists' actions and found, she stresses, My Innate Loyalty...

MW was born an upper-class Englishwoman, a second daughter who was early aware that her mother was disappointed she was not a boy. She later defied convention in several respects—in her second marriage and her...

At the end of the Second World War, GBS converted to Catholicism from her purely nominal Judaism.

This family spanned a number of the influences she would later reject: her mother was a fervent Catholic and her father a conservative in politics and in cultural choices, whereas as a young woman she...

AC was a devout Christian believer. One group of her editors think she was possibly Roman Catholic , certainly anti-Calvinist; another group thinks she was Calvinist in sympathy.

He was born into the gentry class, or rather at a level of Polish society which had something of that and something of the British nobility. He was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church and...

Although brought up as a Protestant and confirmed while at school as an Anglican , IM later considered herself nothing more specific than a Christian fellow-traveller. At more than one stage of her life...

Born to English parents, CMB came from a middle-class, presumably white background. Shortly after her birth her parents, Benjamin and Charlotte Law, converted to Catholicism . It seems that early fears over the infant Charlotte's...

Born into the rising English gentry and into the then nationally practised Roman Catholic faith, she later made choice of the new or reformed religion of Protestantism . (As the Puritan John Field put it...

Once established in Ireland, her family became practising members of the Church of Ireland: that is the Anglican Church. AMH encountered many practising Catholic s while living with her maternal step-grandfather , who often entertained...

MAD converted to Roman Catholicism by the mid-1910s and explored religious issues in some of the writing she published during the period. For example, her devotional book Sanctuary (1916) contains a preface by Charles Galton

JR was at one time attracted to Catholicism , mostly practised by the black people on the island. There was considerable prejudice against Catholicism, and many horror stories about the nuns circulated amongst the...

Brought up as an Anglican in the Church of Ireland , she devoted herself with increasing fervour to her religion. Later she converted and became an extremely devout Catholic .

She then went through a spiritual night of doubt and perplexity after a passionate persuasion by a Carmelite nun friend to become a Catholic . She next became a High Church Anglican ...

DA was born into an English middle-class Roman Catholic family to middle-aged parents, and brought up in an affectionate home environment. She and her sisters were encouraged to read and write from an early age...