21.   The remark provoked outrage, adding fuel to a fire that has already badly damaged the church in this heavily Catholic country.

22.   Their surprise wedding confirmed months of national speculation in this predominantly Catholic country about the personal relationship between the two Roman Catholic divorcees.

23.   There is a correlation between the growing evangelical movement in these traditionally Catholic countries and the fleeting, perhaps dormant, inroads of the liberation theologists.

24.   They cited statistics to show that divorce had corrupted other Catholic countries, like Italy and France, where divorce rates are rising.

25.   This is especially true in predominantly Catholic countries, where Christmas Eve used to be a no-meat day.

26.   Pope John Paul II arrived Friday in this largely Catholic country on a visit that may magnify differences among his believers.

27.   A boat carrying doctors seeking to help Irish women obtain abortions docked Thursday night in Dublin, capital of a predominantly Catholic country where the practice remains outlawed.

28.   A violent raid by Muslims on Roman Catholics has raised fears of a wider religious conflict emerging in one of the most lawless areas of this predominantly Catholic country.

29.   After the conflict most Catholics either left to form a separate Bosnian Croat state or emigrated to mainly Catholic countries such as Croatia, Austria and Italy.

30.   Although condemning the atrocities, Zagreb Cardinal Franjo Kuharic, a great moral authority in this preponderantly Catholic country, also sought to deflect responsibility from the Croatian army.