Protestants and Catholics became accustomed to holding secret services at night, during periods of persecution.
Fast forward to 2011 and Catholics are in the majority in Belfast at 48.58%, ahead of Protestants at 42.3%.
But for a given level of education, Protestants and Catholics did equally well.
After all, it is hard to see the Scientologists or the Moonies being as politically palatable as Episcopalians and Catholics.
But peace, and a policy of recruiting equal numbers of Protestants and Catholics, are gradually changing the face of policing.
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That drop is pretty similar to drops in support among college graduates, whites, young voters, and Catholics ( Laura Rozen at Al-Monitor).
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He said there was now a real chance for the service to have the full endorsement of Protestants and Catholics, including republicans.
So one of the first things TV analysts talk about from election exit polls is how religious groups voted, particularly Protestant evangelicals and Catholics.
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Set between two lakes, the town was chosen mainly because it has a reasonable mix of Protestants and Catholics, as well as two thriving integrated schools.
The question of prejudice toward Italians and Catholics was ancillary to my writing project, something I wanted to better understand in order to fully imagine my characters.
And as reports surface of McCain's difficulties with evangelical leaders, Obama's campaign revealed an ambitious effort to appeal to young evangelicals and Catholics, to be unveiled this month.
But in working class areas of Belfast, Protestants and Catholics still live apart, sheltered behind peace walls, in areas often festooned with different national flags and contrasting murals.
Protestants and Catholics still distrust each other profoundly.
But Mr Van der Stoel's mandate precludes him from seeking to put out fires that have already started burning, so minorities such as Kurds in Turkey, Basques in Spain and Catholics in Northern Ireland are off his beat.
Mr Trimble, who was elected party leader in September 1995 as a hardliner because he repudiated a compromise between Orange marchers and Catholics, must now go back this April 18th to the body which chose him to urge acceptance of a compromise.
Quakers and Catholics sided with the king, and so did many settlers of German and Dutch origin, as well as most Scots Highlanders, who had sworn an oath of loyalty to the Hanoverian crown in defeat and were not about to go back on it.
This is a shift for me, and I make it tentatively, because like all Catholics and former Catholics, I know we are susceptible to the influence of church stagecraft.
Iraq also has communities of Syrian Catholics, Syrian Orthodox, Copts, Armenian Orthodox, Armenian Catholics, Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholics, as well as Anglicans and Evangelicals.
And religion matters far less than it did: church attendance, for Catholics and non-Catholics alike, is in steep decline.
The group's stated mission: to attract financial support from moderate evangelicals, Catholics, Protestants and Hispanic Catholics committed to electing Sen.
The present Northern Ireland team is evenly split between Catholics and Protestants, while Catholics such as Martin O'Neill and Pat Jennings enjoyed distinguished Northern Ireland careers without ever being subjected to abuse.
Large majorities of Catholics and non-Catholics polled said they believe the next choice of pope matters to the world, the survey also found.
After all, March has been packed with various religious events from holidays observed by several different faiths to the selection of a new Pope, which garnered attention from Catholics and non-Catholics alike all over the world.
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But the victorious and dogmatic Catholics ordered first the forcible conversion of Jews and Muslims and, eventually, their expulsion.
He could bridge the gap or close some of the distance between social justice Catholics and traditional, doctrinal Catholics.
Liberals and conservatives, like Catholics and the various reformed protestant denominations, worship at the same altar regardless of their different trappings and rituals.
Weighing 23 tons in total and named after saints like the Archangel Gabriel and prominent Catholics like Jean-Marie Lustiger, the late Cardinal and Bishop of Paris, they have been cast to mark the 850th anniversary of the Cathedral, which began construction in 1163 and took ninety years to build.
Although some of the delegates had no religious affiliation, most were Protestants and Roman Catholics.
Nor will it require anybody to practise contraception against their will (and most Catholics use contraceptives anyway).
Others, however, were more circumspect about what an African pope would mean for the continent and its Catholics.
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