Roman Catholic Church

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...

JOF was born to intense paternal concern about Irish nationality, to indignation at the power of the Roman Catholic Church (in which, nevertheless, she was confirmed at ten years old), and a conviction that national...

At some point after CSJ met her long-time partner Edith Craig , she converted from her family's Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .

She belonged to the Irish middle class. A Roman Catholic , she came from a religiously mixed household (highly unusual in deeply sectarian nineteenth-century Ireland).

MEB 's mother, the daughter of a Catholic father and Protestant mother, was from county Cavan in Ireland. She brought up her daughter as a Protestant Anglican , but Mary Elizabeth was later tolerant...

After emerging first from the shortest bout of atheism on record and then from a vague indifference about religion, PF was received into the Roman Catholic Church .

ES was received into the Roman Catholic Church at Farm Street Church in Mayfair.

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...

SH had married as a RomanCatholic , but her new husband devoted himself with indefatigable Pains to bringing her back to the Church ofEngland . He recognized that he could hope to do this...

FB was serious about her Anglican faith, but much more sympathetic towards Roman Catholicism , which was practised by her maternal grandmother, than most Anglicans of her day, even before she married a Catholic.

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...

When she was thirteen or fourteen EJ first began to question the Roman Catholic faith in which she was being brought up. But she remained a faithful (though troubled) Catholic, always closely concerned with religion...

She apparently felt the Catholic Church to be female: the great mother church of Christendom .

Her father was Scottish in origin and had changed his name to Mallet from Malloch (a fact that was held against him by politically-motivated satirists). Dorothea grew up English and became Genoese by marriage. She...