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Cultural formation Charlotte Godley
It seems her family was tolerant in religious matters. They were Anglicans , but when one of the brothers became both a Roman Catholic and a Jesuit priest, his conversion does not seem to have...
Cultural formation E. Nesbit
EN was born in the English middle class (though she had some Irish and Swedish blood) and brought up as an Anglican . She became a socialist and a feminist, although with some reservations and...
Cultural formation Janet Schaw
JS was a white Scotswoman of the land-owning and business class. She was a Presbyterian by birth and training; as an adult she was in principle broad-minded and tolerant of religious difference, except for being...
Cultural formation Caroline Chisholm
Protestant minister John Dunmore Lang 's bitter anti-Catholic denunciation of CC 's immigration work prompted lively correspondence in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. Melbourne University Press.
81-4
Cultural formation Charlotte Guest
CG remained a member of the Church of England (with Low Church or Evangelical sympathies) although her first husband was a Dissenter and she often felt in Wales that the Dissenters were doing a better...
Cultural formation Kate O'Brien
Though KOB 's surname was an ancient name of a royal house in Ireland, she was born into an often-forgotten segment of nineteenth-century society: the Irish Catholic middle class. She calls her Irishness my accidental...
Cultural formation Hope Mirrlees
HM quietly converted to Roman Catholicism .
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press.
3: 268
Cultural formation Annie Besant
AB was confirmed an Anglican in Paris in the spring of 1862. She was fascinated by Catholicism , but the writing of the Oxford Movement convinced her of the similarity between Anglicanism and Catholicism. After...
Cultural formation Blanche Warre Cornish
Some found BWC 's conversion to RomanCatholicism puzzling, but an anonymous friend explained it by saying that she needed certainty. She was always passionate, always anxious to conclude. She could not make a pillow of...
Cultural formation Annie Keary
She then went through a spiritual night
Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan.
141
of doubt and perplexity after a passionate persuasion by a Carmelite nun friend to become a Catholic .
Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan.
140-1
She next became a High Church Anglican ...
Cultural formation Emily Hickey
Perhaps influenced by her friend Eleanor Hamilton King , or by John Henry Newman , EH converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism , which she dubbed her great and beautiful inheritance.
Dinnis, Enid M. Emily Hickey, Poet, Essayist—Pilgrim. Harding and More.
43, 41
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
199: 169
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Cultural formation Elizabeth Strickland
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...
Cultural formation Charlotte Despard
She converted to Catholicism less than a year after her husband's death, which made her a co-religionist of those she now set out to help.
Linklater, Andro. An Unhusbanded Life. Hutchinson.
63
Around 1909, after attending a series of lectures by...
Cultural formation Catharine Trotter
While a young woman CT converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism , the religion of her mother's family. In 1704 she maintained that differences among different branches of the Christian religion were of no importance...
Cultural formation Mary Howitt
MH was received into the Roman Catholic Church after receiving dispensations to keep using her English Bible and to be buried with her husband in the Protestant Cemetery.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
254

Timeline

10 July 1994: Pope John Paul II published a letter to the...

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10 July 1994

Pope John Paul II published a letter to the world's women admitting that the Church had discriminated against them, but maintaining his reactionary stance on gender issues.

Summer 2005: News broke that one of the bestselling nonfiction...

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Summer 2005

News broke that one of the bestselling nonfiction books of the year, Judith Kelly 's Rock Me Gently, included passages almost verbally identical with passages by other authors.

21 April 2011: Hundreds of Anglicans converted to the Roman...

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21 April 2011

Hundreds of Anglicans converted to the Roman Catholic Church , with the blessing of Pope Benedict XVI, because they were not prepared to countenance the consecration of women bishops.

April 2012: The Leadership Conference of Women Religious,...

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April 2012

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious , which represents about 80 percent of American Roman Catholic nuns, was sharply reprimanded by the Vatican 's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for serious doctrinal problems.
Pullella, Philip. “Vatican tells U. S. nuns its doctrine is <span data-tei-ns-tag="">supreme</span&gt”;. Edmonton Journal, p. A21.

25 April 2013: A bill to end succession to the crown based...

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25 April 2013

A bill to end succession to the crown based on male primogeniture was passed by the British parliament.
“Law ending exclusively male royal succession now law”. BBC News UK.

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