11.  This show of official partiality undermined moderate Catholic parties and allowed the IRA to pose as the armed defenders of an abused Catholic minority.

12.  Public support is running solidly behind Protestant and Catholic parties that support the Belfast peace agreement, an opinion poll indicated Thursday.

13.  A small Catholic centrist party left the coalition altogether.

14.  An election held earlier this month saw moderate Protestant and Catholic parties lose ground to their more radical rivals.

15.  Both motions are doomed to failure because they would require support from the major Catholic party in the coalition, the moderate Social Democratic and Labor Party.

16.  Both Catholic parties back the agreement, struck in April among eight parties and the British and Irish governments.

17.  Bruton and Major said an all-Ireland referendum on peace, proposed by the main Catholic party in Northern Ireland, was still possible.

18.  But the Catholic parties in the Cabinet warned that any suspension would only make progress -- particularly on IRA disarmament -- more difficult.

19.  Catholic parties want Major to fix a date quickly for multi-party negotiations.

20.  Catholic parties, however, are insisting the provisions be limited to married couples.