Roman Catholic Church

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...

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

Julian of Norwich was a Roman Catholic (like everyone in England at the time). It is not known when she became an anchoress, or what her life had been before that. Her family may have...

Shortly after her first release from prison, Irish nationalist Constance, Countess Markievicz, became a Roman Catholic .

After emerging first from the shortest bout of atheism on record and then from a vague indifference about religion, PF was received into the Roman Catholic Church .

Born into the Hungarian nobility, she remained hierarchical in her ways of thinking, though her snobbishness was balanced by some skill with the common touch. Brought up a Roman Catholic , she became a committed...

Rose, who was pregnant and soon to give birth when her husband fled into exile, consulted Cranmer , Latimer , and Ridley as to whether it would be betraying her faith to have the child...

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.

All that came to her, she believed, came by illumination because of a past birth, and because she pushed [herself] on to a point of spiritual evolution somewhat in advance of the rest of...

MMG is a Roman Catholic , and commented in a 25 June 1990 interview with Susan Shaw Seiler that relations between Roman Catholics and Protestants in Belfast are very different from what they were when...

AP may have converted to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism by this date; certainly she had by 1851.

AT 's family came from the middle classes of Lancashire and Scotland, but lived a rootless, unsettled life as her father pursued his career. Both sides had been Jacobites during the eighteenth century. She...

AC 's mother was a Roman Catholic and the two attended church together for much of her childhood.AC felt a great comfort in attending mass with her mother and remembers, fondly, the smell...

Born in Ireland of presumably white, probably Anglo-Irish heritage, CG converted to Catholicism in 1896.

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...