Roman Catholic Church

Born into the English gentry class only a generation after the Church of England came into existence as distinct from the Roman Catholic Church , EG was almost certainly a recusant or closet adherent of...

AD grew up in Northern Ireland but has been living in England since 1976, driven away, she said, by levels of violence that caused me to be afraid. Her family heritage is Catholic ...

Her family's titles, wealth, elite status, and remarkable record of high ability were somewhat offset by the RomanCatholic faith which excluded them from some of the civil rights and privileges possessed by other English or...

The idea of awaking a feeling of superiority to Italian religion backfired. They saw the Catholic Church in Italy as providing religion not for the few but for the many: that man in the street...

Born into a nominally Anglican family of the middle or professional class, GA is an Englishwoman who knows by experience both the North and South of the country. Her family officially belonged to the Church ofEngland

Returned to ordinary life, GD remained a practising, even a fervent Catholic .

Years after she had left the Roman Catholic Church , AW reconverted to it, just before Christmas.

Elizabeth, while remaining a practising Anglican , became remarkable for her capacity to think herself into the mindset of British Roman Catholics at a time when the generally dominant party in England saw them as...

Brought up in the observance of Judaism , HPrenounced religion as soon as his bar mitzvah was over, although his Jewish identity continued to be important to him. He became in maturity a determinedly...

EMC was a devoted and exemplary Catholic , from a presumably white, landowning-professional Irish family.

If this was Ephelia, she grew up in an extremely wealthy, noble family and an incomparably privileged environment, with King James I her honorary grandfather as well as her godfather, and with fine literature produced...

She grew up with English and Irish Catholic parents of working-class background, living in council housing behind the Caledonian Canal at 92 St Valery in Inverness. The Smith family was fortunate to secure such...

For a year of her childhood she was brought up by High Anglican aunts; but she remained ecumenical and open-minded in her attitude to religion. In 1943 she wrote that if she believed in anything...

Born into the rising and prosperous English trading class, with strong gentry connections, SH was baptised into the Church ofEngland . Possibly out of loyalty to her dead father, who worked for the royal family...

TD was an Irishwoman, presumably white, brought up in the Catholic Church . Her parents belonged, says her editor, to the prosperous Waterford merchant class.