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The irony is not academic. It explains why the "men of violence" prevail, and why peace is no closer now than it has been for the last eight years. It points to the profound ambiguity with which the Northern Irish, both Protestant and Catholic, view themselves and their sectarian opponents...
The division of sympathies is complicated because each group has reason to fear the other. In the foreign press and the propaganda of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), the conflict in Ulster is often portrayed only as a struggle of a Catholic minority against an oppressive Protestant majority backed by...
Donovan has run into another conflict, which has arisen more and more as the Christian movement broadens. She is a Roman Catholic, and says she found it somewhat difficult to reconcile her new Christian beliefs--beliefs long associated with some of the more fundamentalist forms of Protestantism--with her Catholicism. She now does consider herself a Catholic, after a long period of self-questioning, but still runs into difficulties with some Catholic dogma. Recently, she said, she tried to organize a Bible study group at the Catholic Student Center, where she is very active. The idea met with little enthusiasm...
Donovan is involved in the "Charismatic movement" made up of people in the Catholic Church who stress the "gift of the Holy Spirit." "The spirit wants to manifest himself in outward signs," she says, which leads to such phenomena as speaking in tongues. The equivalent Protestant movement is called Pentacostal...
Few of the new arrivals seem motivated by the challenge of building a new, multiracial Zimbabwe; on the contrary, they seem to relish the fading trappings of white supremacy. Says a recently arrived young Englishman: "I'm sick of the situation in Britain, the unions, the high taxes, the...