Word: catholicism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In 1995, Irish voters approved a referendum to legalize divorce, winning over the opposition of the Pope in a predominantly Catholic country.
Her term also saw the liberalization of censorship laws and further separation of the Catholic church from the state.
Brown was heavily recruited as a basketball player coming out of DeMatha Catholic High School, a school near Washington D.C. that is legendary for its hoops history. A high school All-American, Brown decided to attend Harvard, shunning full-ride scholarships at college juggernauts such as the University of North...
While sectarian murders and bombings continued apace around the province, an informal cease-fire gradually took hold within the city in the early '90s. "Both sides realized that they could not win a military victory," says Donncha MacNiallais, a former I.R.A. member who became a community worker in the Bogside...
Protestant and Catholic businessmen and -women work together and do some socializing, but even that is constricted by geography. More than 20,000 Protestants have fled the central section of the city on the west bank of the River Foyle for the safety of the largely Protestant communities on the...