Word: protestantitis
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Bernadette Devlin, 23-year-old Catholie spitfire whose jailing on charges of inciting to riot was the immediate cause of current troubles, was out of action. But there was no lack of troublemakers. Protestant Extremist Ian Paisley and 30 followers demonstrated at England's Canterbury Cathedral, carrying placards that...
As the Orange Order parades approached, Belfast's two warring tribes prepared for what is not only a national holiday but also an annual excuse - as if any were needed - for mindless bloodshed. In the Protestant working-class areas, houses and store fronts sported Union Jacks, freshly painted shields...
Learn and Listen. That no blood was shed was remarkable, since a pall of anger hung over Ulster last week following the fiercest battles between Catholics and Protestants in eight months. In addition to the seven dead, at least 250 people were wounded or injured, stores and pubs were fire...
Well Prepared. Last summer's riots broke out as a result of a Catholic civil rights struggle. The latest explosions seemed to augur a resumption of the religious war that raged in Ireland a half-century ago at the time the Irish Free State was created. Irregulars on both...
Temporal Sovereign. It has been the principle of church-state separation that has qualified U.S.-Vatican ties since the nation's birth. In the mid-19th century, the U.S. did have a minister-resident in Rome, because the Pope was then a temporal sovereign, governing much of central Italy...