Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Church has never really been able to overcome this charge. The Vatican often scolds right-wing extremism but always seems to go after the left with a vengeance. Pius XII denounced Nazism but excommunicated all Catholic Communists. John Paul II upbraids the dictators of Brazil and the Philippines for...
Paisley's declaration was not his only melodramatic ploy. Earlier, he had staged a nighttime muster for five Belfast journalists. They were taken in a blacked-out van to a windswept hillside, where they emerged to see 500 men drawn up in military ranks. The men, warned Paisley, were...
Paisley's political theatrics occurred as terrorist attacks were continuing. Following a near fatal Protestant assassination at tempt against Catholic Activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and her husband, and the I.R.A. killings of Protestant No table Sir Norman Stronge and his son, an I.R.A. commando scuttled a British col lier...
The murders, with all their similarities to the I.R.A.'s killing of Lord Mountbatten in August 1979, drew condemnation from moderates on both sides of the sectarian struggle. "Even at 86 years of age," said Catholic Politician Austin Currie, "Sir Norman was still incomparably more of a man than...
The process of punching is something like bowling, with the club members rolling the balls and then watching to see what's left standing. Clubs like the Porcellian have never been overly fond of the idea of admitting anybody who is not white, male, preppie and Protestant, and few of...