1.   He was also the first Protestant to become President of the overwhelmingly Catholic country.

2.   And he also had to reconcile himself to his attraction to men in a Catholic country where such an orientation risked ostracism, and much worse.

3.   Because the danger of AIDS is so great, there have been few religious objections, even in Catholic countries.

4.   Brazil, the biggest Catholic country in the world, is also seeing a surge in Protestantism and beliefs rooted in African traditions.

5.   Despite a wave of church growth and spiritual renewal, the pope was apparently concerned with Protestant evangelical inroads in the overwhelmingly Catholic country.

6.   East Timor is a Catholic country.

7.   However, Mahony prefers that the cathedral heed tradition in Catholic countries and remain in the downtown historic section, near government buildings, Coiro said.

8.   Historically Catholic countries loosened strictures against proselytization.

9.   In a pattern repeated all over this heavily Catholic country, they had fled killing by Hutu military and militia in the hills and sought sanctuary in the church.

10.   In the last presidential election in this deeply Catholic country, former senior Communist official Aleksander Kwasniewski defeated former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa.