Roman Catholic Church

MAD converted to Roman Catholicism by the mid-1910s and explored religious issues in some of the writing she published during the period. For example, her devotional book Sanctuary (1916) contains a preface by Charles Galton

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...

VA was received back into the Catholic Church on the anniversary of her first reception into it.

As a child, VA was a fervent Anglo-Catholic, following her mother's example. Later in life she became a Roman Catholic , struggled with her Catholicism, and eventually became a Quaker .

Her husband, like her parents, was Roman Catholic . Despite periods when she neglected churchgoing or doubted her faith, she considered herself a Catholic to the end of her life. She was particularly devout in...

By birth and marriage LJL belonged to the English nobility. Her father was sharply attentive to issues of rank. LJL was born at almost the same time as the Church of England , and her...

Towards the end of this period of involvement with Catholicism , FN received a second call from God, directing her to devote her life entirely to him. She apparently experienced similar calls in 1850, 1853...

Born into the English gentry, ES was until about the age of twenty brought up an earnest heretic: that is to say, a member of the Church of England . Her eldest brother, for...

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

Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland , was finally received into the Catholic Church , years after her reading in the Catholic Fathers had first made her wish to do this.

Brought up by a Roman Catholic foster-mother, sent to an Anglican mission school at thirteen and made to change her religion from one day to the next, she wrote later that for years...

Julian of Norwich was a Roman Catholic (like everyone in England at the time). It is not known when she became an anchoress, or what her life had been before that. Her family may have...

Shortly after her first release from prison, Irish nationalist Constance, Countess Markievicz, became a Roman Catholic .

Born into the Hungarian nobility, she remained hierarchical in her ways of thinking, though her snobbishness was balanced by some skill with the common touch. Brought up a Roman Catholic , she became a committed...