Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In 1932, more than 1200 members of the Harvard community filled Harvard Yard for the dedication of Memorial Church. Built to commemorate Harvard's 373 war dead, the church was to serve as a religious nexus for the largely Protestant University.
As problematic as Lat's Catechism argument is for Catholics, it's totally irrelevant for anyone else. Over 75 percent of the Harvard out and closeted gay, lesbian and bisexual population who are Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, etc., certainly won't feel any better if they read the Catechism. Now...
Or so it is hoped. Like the I.R.A., the Loyalist paramilitaries avoided using the word permanent to describe their cease-fire. The term had been demanded last December by both Prime Minister John Major's Conservative government in London and Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds as a precondition for any...
Enormous obstacles remain, of course. Politically, the two camps are as bitterly opposed as ever, with the I.R.A. and its political wing Sinn Fein demanding a united Ireland -- whatever the 1 million-member Protestant majority in Northern Ireland says. Many Unionists envision only marginal changes in the status quo, with...
Protestant paramilitary groups join the I.R.A. in a cease-fire