Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leading Catholic clergymen have been increasingly vocal in expressing their misgivings about the wisdom of the hunger strike. Father Denis Paul, a chaplain at Maze Prison, has called on the I.R.A. to end the fasts. The Most Rev. Cahal Daly, Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise in the Irish Republic, has...
Last week the government of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher welcomed "the decision of some prisoners or their families to end this distressing protest," in the words of a British official. The hard-line position may have paid off for the moment, but the H-block crisis has further polarized...
"No storm is so insidious as a perfect calm, no enemy so dangerous as the absence of enemies," St. Ignatius Loyola once told his followers. He need not have worried that the Society of Jesus, which he founded in 1534, would ever be without enemies. Over the centuries, Jesuits have...
"Vote for me and give Thatcher a kick in the teeth. Vote for me and vote for the prisoners." That message, blared across the bucolic landscape of Northern Ireland's Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency, proved to be a winner in an important by-election last week. At stake...
King Juan Carlos of Spain, still steamed that the royal couple were departing on their honeymoon cruise from the contested Rock of Gibraltar, stayed away as announced, but send a gift. The Rev. Ian Paisley, an Orangeman of the deepest hue, was dismayed that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster...