1.  For the second successive day, the pope veered away Sunday from a prepared text to omit passages suggesting stronger Catholic opposition to the Holocaust than many Jews acknowledge.

2.  When he reaffirmed traditional Catholic opposition, millions of Catholics flouted his position.

3.  Adams leads the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party, and other Sinn Fein figures have been instrumental in organizing Catholic opposition to Orange marches.

4.  Cardinal Hume reiterated Catholic opposition to the laboratory production and freezing of embryos.

5.  Catholic opposition to traditional pro-British Protestant parades triggered widespread rioting last July and threatens to do so again.

6.  Catholic opposition had threatened new and violent confrontations after three nights of rioting over another Orange march last Sunday.

7.  Divisive Protestant parades, met by organized Catholic opposition, have triggered street violence in Northern Ireland for the past four summers.

8.  Divisive Protestant parades, met by organized Catholic opposition, have inspired violence in Northern Ireland the past four summers.

9.  Gregory is an expert on liturgy and has written extensively on Catholic opposition to physician-assisted suicide and the death penalty.

10.  Protestant mobs had rioted throughout Northern Ireland since police first blocked the march Sunday, citing local Catholic opposition.