1.  However, the Catholic parties refused to take the seats they won in the assembly elections.

2.  Silvio Berlusconi and a group of Catholic parties want a widely based government to work on constitutional changes.

3.  He is expected to urge compromise on the two Catholic parties, Sinn Fein and the mainstream Social Democratic Labor Party of John Hume.

4.  Hendron is a member of the Social Democratic Labor Party, a moderate Catholic party.

5.  Senior religious leaders, as well as politicians from the Christian Social Union, the heavily Catholic party that dominates Bavarian politics, are expected to attend.

6.  The largest Catholic party, the moderate Social Democratic and Labor Party, has endorsed the peace pact, and Sinn Fein has spoken favorably of it.

7.  The Social Democratic Labor Party, a predominantly Catholic mainstream party, voted in favor as did several smaller groups.

8.  The smaller Catholic parties allied with Fini and Berlusconi in the so-called Freedom Alliance said they would like to find a solution that avoids a government crisis.

9.  There have been no polls indicating how the vote might go, but analysts said that the two Catholic nationalist parties could gain three or four additional seats.