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Gruesome Weight. The next day an anonymous caller telephoned the Belfast Telegraph and, in the name of the South Armagh Republican Action Force-a branch of the Provisional Irish Republican Army-claimed responsibility for the killings. They were carried out, the caller said, in retaliation for the assassination the previous...
Responsible Protestant and Catholic leaders are pleading for restraint. "The blood lust which is ripping Armagh must be stopped before the whole of Ulster is engulfed by murder madness," said Thomas Passmore, Grand Master of Belfast's Orange Lodge. William Cardinal Conway, Ireland's Roman Catholic primate, described...
In Protestant churches, a small but rising number of parishioners look up at the pulpit on Sunday morning?and see a woman. The United Methodist Church has 576 ordained women, up from 332 in 1970, and the United Presbyterian Church has more than 200, compared with 103 in 1972. The...
In Holland there was general relief when Catholics learned that Willebrands, not a right-winger, was coming. Conservative Bishop Simonis saw Paul's choice of a key aide as proof of his "love for The Netherlands." Others were less glowing, since Willebrands was not on the list of three...
Fleeing to Europe, Grimes meets a Faustian figure (but a Faust with charm) named Fabian, who knows every banker, concierge and con man from Rome to Gstaad. He teaches Grimes, the back slid Protestant moralist, how to increase and enjoy his money. But just as Graham Greene knew, Shaw is...