Word: humes
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Throughout the world, Catholics flocked to churches to pray at special services for the Pope. At one such ceremony, in London's Westminster Cathedral, Basil Cardinal Hume delivered what may have been the most telling tribute to the Pontiff. Said Hume: "He is now at one with the countless victims of violence of our day. He, like them, has now followed in the footsteps of a Master who was himself so cruelly and callously tortured and killed. He, like his Master, refuses to condemn, is ready to forgive...
That comparison is far too extreme, but moderates on both sides feel that the British must find some way of heading off a string of hunger-strike deaths. John Hume, a respected Catholic leader of Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labor Party, feels that the British could work out a compromise on the political prisoner issue, allowing inmates some freedom of association and to wear clothing they could claim as their...
...Even at this late hour an attempt could be made to avert a new legacy of bloodshed and bitterness," he wrote, "and many people here in England are conscious of our responsibility not only in but for this tragic situation." At week's end Catholic Political Leader John Hume reported that "a door has been opened" in his talks with Ulster Secretary of State Humphrey Atkins. Most observers devoutly hoped so. If some room for compromise was not found, Northern Ireland, and perhaps England as well, seemed set for a Christmas season during which the message of peace...
...volume three, which will cope with Freud, Adler and Jung, is to be the grand synthesis of Kaufmann's philosophy for a new age. (He never says that's what he is about, perhaps for fear of shocking those of us who still cling to such dishonored idols as Hume, Bentham, Locke and Mill, howling about desecrations by infidels from 19th Century Germany...
...similar power-sharing plan that was wrecked by a Protestant-organized general strike in 1974. The Rev. Ian Paisley, the militant head of the Democratic Unionist Party, denounced any formula for sharing power with Catholics as "totally unacceptable." Nor were Catholics enthusiastic about the proposed guarantees. John Hume, Catholic leader of the moderate Social Democratic and Labor Party, said only that he would be open to having further talks...