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This article examines the marginalization of British Catholics active both in the Church and in the Labour movement. On the one hand such Catholics often have to face the traditional clerical suspicion of socialism with its imputed associations with militant atheism and Marxist materialism. On the other hand, within the Labour movement there have been suspicions of the resistance of Catholics to radical social change and their alleged reactionary positions in the matter of women's rights. Two Catholic Members of the Parliament have complained that though they received some support for their political involvement from individuals, in the main they did not feel they received support in the vocation from the institutional Church. Both testified to the political difficulties which they had and the pressures to which they had been subjected in attempts to amend abortion legislation. Such findings lend credence to the hypothesis that Catholics active both in the Church and in politics experience a sense of marginality in both institutional spheres. As such, Catholics grapple with the sometimes conflicting demands of the social worlds of the Catholic Church and the Labour movement and they experience psychological uncertainty.