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...been the symbol of Protestant triumph and Catholic humiliation. For nearly three centuries after the siege, Catholic residents of the city were forbidden by custom to live within Derry's six-foot-thick, lichen-green stone walls; the "Catholic area" was a nearby swamp appropriately called Bogside. Nor were Catholics???even when they became a majority in Derry?ever allowed to play any major role in the city's administration. When, in 1968, Catholic civil rightists did the unthinkable by marching through this Protestant inner sanctum, their defiance touched off a tragic tribal war that has engulfed all Northern Ireland...
Black humor aside, there is no longer an easy or rational way to conclude the war in the foreseeable future. What began in 1968 as a nonviolent campaign for civil rights by Ulster's half-million Catholics???one-third of the North's population?has inexorably grown into an all-out campaign of terror by that most fabled and storied of guerrilla organizations, the Irish Republican Army. Best estimates are that the army in Northern Ireland numbers no more than 200 hard-core gunmen, and deaths and arrests have decimated its cadre of trained leaders. But the I.R.A. clearly...
...spot or wrinkle), John set out to adapt his church's whole life and stance to the revolutionary changes in science, economics, morals and politics that have swept the modern world: to make it, in short, more Catholic and less Roman. Stretching out the hand of friendship to non-Catholics???he calls them "separated brethren"?he demonstrated that the walls that divide Christianity do not reach as high as heaven, and made a start toward that distant and elusive goal, Christian unity...
...following a great Solemn Eucharistic Procession through Cleveland to the Stadium. There priests in chasubles, monsignori in purple, archbishops, bishops, mitred abbots investments of gold, altar boys in cassocks, nurses in uniforms, school children with bouquets, Knights of Columbus, Knights of St. John, policemen, firemen?20,000 well-drilled Catholics???were to form a Living Monstrance, a reproduction of the sacred altar vessel whose jeweled cross and golden sun rays surround a glass-enclosed clip holding the Consecrated Host. At the centre, garbed in voluminous vestments and wearing pontifical gloves entitling him to bless in the name of the Pope...
...Catholic hierarchy regards Omaha as a towering isle in a sea of Protestantism. Of Nebraska's 1,378,900 population, 160,000 are Roman Catholics???Germans, Irish, Bohemians, Mexicans?living among their Fundamentalist co-citizens. Head of that Catholic archipelago is Bishop Joseph Francis Rummel, host of the Eucharistic Congress...
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