Religious Beliefs
An extremely devout Anglo-Catholic (Anglican), she opposed contraception and divorce. She stated that “artificial contraceptives are wrong, morally, medically, rationally”. She put in a powerful plea for the exercise of natural means of spacing the family. She spoke of divorce and her belief that it is unjust even to the guilty party, who, if a second union is contracted by the innocent partner, is “thereby prevented from making reparation and by this debarred from full repentance”.
She pled for the Church of England to strengthen and expand its own school system:
Among the queerest heresies is that which teaches that children ought not to be biassed, or, as they say, 'prejudiced' in their spiritual outlook ... uch parents and guardians are, indeed, biassing and prejudicing their children's choice, because it is inevitable that children left without religious instruction must grow up in the belief that the truths of religion and the practice of religion cannot be of much importance to their parents.
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