Roman Catholic Church

MW was a pious Catholic as a child: she was said to shun sports and pastimes, preferring to read spiritual books, to perform exercises of penance like wearing a rough, uncomfortable girdle, and to humble...

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. Her childhood home...

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

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...

EMD grew up in an upper-class family. Her father was descended from French Catholic aristocrats (whose title was not officially recognised in England), and her mother from English squires. She was given a strict Victorian...

Alice Thompson (later AM ) converted to Catholicism at Malvern, where she was recuperating from an illness.

GF , hitherto a member of the Church ofEngland , was received into the Roman CatholicChurch by a Father Brownbill.

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.

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...

CB 's mother practised strict Catholic ism while her father, who came from a fundamentalist dissenting home, professed agnostic beliefs. Raised and educated in the Catholic faith, CB married an English Roman Catholic. In regard...

FD belonged to the British nobility (with a Scottish father and English mother), but her mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism (as well as other family circumstances) made her experience different from most members of her...

She came from a family of Catholic farmers, middle-class people who were liked and respected by the local gentry.

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.

FN experienced a time of religious rebirth after receiving another call from God on 7 May 1852. That summer and autumn, as her disillusionment with the Anglican Church increased, she considered becoming a Roman Catholic