Roman Catholic Church

Brought up, educated, and ordained in the Anglican Church , JHN began, with others, to entertain fears for its future as a national church. Emancipation of Catholics and Dissenters led them to suppose that the...

Scholarly debate continues to rage on the question of whether WS subscribed to the Church of England or whether he adhered to the minority and persecuted Old Religion of Catholicism . Supporters of the Catholic...

Her father's death plunged the PresbyterianHW into a crisis of religious faith and a conviction that the goodness of God was a myth. Hating the Puritanism in which she had grown up, its stress...

Born of mixed English and German heritage, and on both sides of middle-class families deeply involved in the practice of the arts, FMF converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of nineteen, but hardly seems...

Brought up as an Anglican in the Church of Ireland , she devoted herself with increasing fervour to her religion. Later she converted and became an extremely devout Catholic .

AB was received into the Catholic Church in Farm Street, London, by Father Charles Martindale .

AK was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church three years after her marriage, at least in part to avoid the duties of a vicar's wife.

Since he was born and faithfully remained a Catholic , he was excluded from university, from government jobs, and latterly from residing in London or owning a horse worth more than a certain sum.

In the aftermath of his trial, OW was widely pilloried in the press, his homosexuality abused by all of the covert means available. He became a convert to Roman Catholicism .

As well as German nationality, MC claimed a background that was Roman Catholic and upper-class, indeed noble. When in print she implicitly admitted that her claims to nobility were false, she fell back on saying...

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

MG 's enthusiasms led her in several successive directions in religion. In November 1891 she became a member of the Rosicrucian Order of the Golden Dawn . On 17 February 1903, immediately before marrying John MacBride

The early life of Chloe Wofford (later TM ) was shaped by her birth as a working-class African-American at the tail end of segregation. At twelve she became a Roman Catholic . In...

MR was born into the increasingly confident and accomplished English, professional, urban class. As she grew up she participated to the full in her father's strongly held conviction that the true faith was the old...

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...