Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A crowd of Belfast Catholics was watching an evening soccer game on the television set in Kellys Bar when a bomb exploded in a parked car outside, setting off a weekend of violence in which nine people were killed and 100 injured. The Catholics blamed the bombing on Protestant extremists...
> Topic A around the Vatician these days is whether Pope Paul VI will resign when he reached 75 on Sept. 26. In 1966 Paul urged that bishops retire at 75. Shortly thereafter, he titillated papal observers with an odd pilgrimage to the castle associated with Pope Celestine V, who quit...
Trouble sets in, writes Kelley, whenever political or other issues supplant such stringent concerns. The recent mainstream Protestant formula-be tolerant, ecumenical, relevant-he describes as a formula for failure. Once a church lapses into such an approach, as the United Methodist Church has, Kelley maintains that a decline in...
THE angry fates attending Northern Ireland conspired again last week to plunge that unhappy province back over the brink of violence. For nearly a month since Britain's takeover of direct rule, Ulster's Catholics had wavered between supporting the outlawed Irish Republican Army and coming to terms...
In revenge for McCann's death, I.R.A. snipers killed three British soldiers, and set off a new upsurge of violence. In all, there were more than 250 shooting incidents last week. Most of them were apparently begun by the Official wing of the I.R.A., which prefers bullets to bombs...