He was assassinated in Paris on May 14 , 1610 by a fanatical Roman Catholic named François Ravaillac.
(There are moments in "Brideshead" when Waugh, devoutly in love with the fine old Catholic name of Marchmain, veers ominously close to the Warden).
This counsel has unintended results when his son's classmate also quits, upsetting his father, a Roman Catholic named O'Malley worried about Mr. Chappelle's influence.
For some, that hope has been dashed by an ongoing controversy involving a French diplomat and practising Catholic named Laurent Stefanini, who is gay.
Not content to let the historic shattering of an outdated taboo speak for itself, Gore likened his choice of a Jew in 2000 to the Democrats' choice of a Catholic named Kennedy in 1960.
The applicants' resumes were nearly identical: two women had an obvious Senegalese surname, Diouf, where one had a well-known Muslim name (Khadija) and the other had a well-known Catholic name (Marie); a third woman had a "typical" French name (Aurélie Ménard).
Perhaps inspired by Morrison (who, no doubt, had been inspired by self-immolating Buddhist monks in Vietnam), a young Catholic named Roger LaPorte set himself aflame across from the United Nations in New York, where, only a month before, Pope Paul VI had cried, "War no more!" "I am a Catholic Worker," LaPorte said before dying.
A nervous lapsed Catholic named Brooke shies when Marina calls her "Barbara" (the woman's long-suppressed given name) and storms out after being told that she's attracted to a woman at work but won't date her because "your faith tells you it's wrong".
In 1586, British spies got wind of another plot, this time involving a wealthy twenty-four-year-old Catholic named Anthony Babington, who, together with a group of like-minded friends, had persuaded himself that it was morally acceptable to kill the "tyrant".
(There are moments in "Brideshead" when Waugh, devoutly in love with the fine old Catholic name of Marchmain, veers ominously close to the Warden). Like Lord Poxe, the author himself never killed anyone, although he once made a hapless attempt on his own life, swimming out to sea from the Welsh coast; as he recalls in his autobiography, he met a shoal of jellyfish and turned back.
