Both believe deeply that a united Ireland would invite the hegemony of Rome, the obliteration of Protestant culture.
But it was, above all, the sense of encirclement and humiliation that united the deeply divided Japanese government.
There are about 360,000 Palestinian residents in this officially united but deeply divided city of 800,000, perhaps 160,000 of them eligible voters.
The Palestinian uprising that began in late September united a deeply riven society and distracted people from their disenchantment with their government's supposed corruption, elitism and failed peace efforts.
The old "intransigents" of the Opera dei Congressi, deeply hostile to a united Italy, were replaced early in the century by a new generation of moderate Catholic leaders favoured by Pius X, who even dissolved the Opera dei Congressi in 1904 and brought the Catholic lay movement under the bishops.
In 2015 they launched a new movement called Opportunity Youth United, designed to build a robust grassroots network of deeply engaged, solution-oriented, united, passionate young people from all racial and ethnic groups, both urban and rural, and their allies.
So the hospital stands as a tangible and evocative symbol of a deeply passionate man who united, as few have before or since, intensive philosophical and theological reflection with an extraordinarily practical, dogged determination to translate his beliefs and ideals into reality by bringing medical care to some of the world's poorest people.
Coming at a time of perhaps the greatest uncertainty in recent years — with vital strategic talks with the West under way, another fighting season begun and deep public disillusionment with his administration's corruption — his speech offered a window into what seemed a deeply personal longing for a united Afghanistan that looked to the future, even as he invoked the past.
