Roman Catholic Church

Though she attended a Presbyterian school, MS was rarely taken to church. She was terribly interested in the scriptures and in Christ as a romantic figure, but subscribed to no religious faith. She says...

She was born into the Scottish gentry, and her family originally belonged to the Scottish Episcopalian Church , which is to say they were Anglican. Following her mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism , EG and...

ML was a Roman Catholic . In Massachusetts religious observance was a relaxed affair. An altar was set up for Mass every Saturday night in the local movie house after the films were over, and...

When Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical Humanae Vitae (On the Regulation of Birth), a prohibition on all forms of birth control, CB and her husband (and her mother ) left the Catholic Church

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...

AS has been discussed as a religious writer who, slightly ahead of her time, intuited the need for a feminist revision of patriarchal monotheism. She centred a play on the Roman Catholic Mass, and some...

AG 's parents were Irish Protestant land-owners whose estate, encompassing thousands of acres, was originally acquired in the seventeenth century. Her forebears were a mix of Irish and English, Catholic and Protestant. Her maternal grandmother...

NJ was born, with Jewish and Polish/German heritage, into an English, Yorkshire milieu. Although both parents worked, then or later, in professional occupations they were not wealthy, and even less so after the father lost...

Brought up a Presbyterian , SM was received into the Anglo-Catholic church in 1972 (the year of her marriage and of her husband's appointment as a parish priest) and later became a Roman Catholic .

BB was born into the English lower middle class. She says her family had been quite well off until the slump of 1929, but then they had lost everything. She converted to Catholicism during her...

HD 's poetry reflects her identity as a white Roman Catholic Englishwoman.

It was after his divorce, in 1930, that EW converted to Catholicism . He was received into the Church on 29 September that year.

Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection , and an Irish, originally Catholic , father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish...

She remembered her English grandmother as unequivocally working-class (though the class position of her French grandparents was perhaps higher). In 1989 MR implicitly admitted to being middle-class now. Daughter of a French, Roman Catholic

Presumably white, she was baptised a Catholic and was descended from two ancient Irish families of great consideration. Throughout her life (which she said was too quiet to be of interest to the public) she...