Word: anti-catholicism
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Few Consequences. Today, one century later, the definition of papal infallibility remains the most memorable accomplishment of the First Vatican Council. Yet, as it turned out, it had less effect at the time than was expected. There were few immediate consequences: Great Britain's Prime Minister William Gladstone grumbled...
THESE people-they're daft!" said a British Royal Fusilier private, at a Belfast checkpoint. No one from outside the six hate-scarred counties of Northern Ireland could disagree. Two weekends of rioting left a dozen dead, more than 300 wounded and at least 100 buildings destroyed. This week...
Since last summer's bloody rioting in Londonderry and Belfast, the Unionist Party government of Prime Minister Major James Chichester-Clark has belatedly pressed for the reforms in voting and housing long demanded by Northern Ireland's 500,000 Catholics, who are outnumbered 2 to 1 by Protestants...
For Protestants, perhaps the most galling provocation came last October when Catholic marchers paraded within Londonderry's Old Walls, a Unionist shrine. Convinced that the protesters had overstepped all bounds, Protestant bigots soon began organizing counterdemonstrations. Their spokesman was fiery Ian Paisley, leader of the extremist Free Presbyterian Church...
Another show of independence, and by far the most far-reaching rebug to the senior party, was the convention's decision not to seat the New Jersey delegation. The state's senior party, led by its chairman Webster Todd, had selected the delegation after ousting YR chairman Richard F. Plechner...