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...cause of the strike was militant Protestant opposition to the Sunningdale agreement, a compromise reached last December that led to the creation of the Provincial Executive, where Ulster's 1 million Protestants and 500,000 Roman Catholics began sharing political power. The militants, reflecting widespread Protestant apprehensions about Sunningdale, fear that the agreement will eventually result in the unification of Ulster and the Republic of Ireland that would relegate Protestants to minority status in a predominantly Catholic nation...
...security men to police the 108 acres of the tiny country. That works out to about one peace officer for every 4.7 men of God. The Vatican has no jail, and the occasional pickpocket caught plying his trade in St. Peter's Square is normally turned over to Roman authorities...
Because the referendum touched directly on Roman Catholic Italy's traditional church-state conflict, the result was a severe defeat for the hierarchy and the Vatican. Bishops had told Catholics that they had a duty to "defend their model of the family"-a clear directive to repeal divorce. Most of the country's 190,000 priests and nuns campaigned vigorously for repeal; but many clerics defended divorce, and they were promptly disciplined by their superiors. After the balloting, Pope Paul VI expressed his "astonishment and pain" at the results. The referendum has already triggered new demands for revision...
...article aroused the Boston-based Value of Life Committee, which protested to both the hospital and the Boston city council. Sensitive to the political pressures in the heavily Roman Catholic city, the council scheduled hearings on the B.C.H. research. The meetings produced an outpouring of anti-abortion sentiment, and the council responded by calling for a criminal investigation...
Ramsey, with his bobbing eyebrows and familiar stutter, was a colorful man whom Hollywood might have cast in the archiepiscopal role. No evangelist, he was primarily interested in ecumenism, theology and social issues. Appropriately for a High Church man, his major accomplishment was his rapprochement with Roman Catholicism, which led to agreements on the Eucharist and the ministry by a joint theological commission. His major failure, perhaps, was the defeat of his plan to merge with the Methodists, England's third largest church group after the Anglicans and Roman Catholics; the Anglican General Synod turned down Ramsey...