Once the Protestants took over in the northern countries, they required parental permission — Rome, too, tightened its rules — but well after the Reformation children were still challenging their parents' wishes.
Most of them were Christians: Roman Catholics converted by the French or Protestants won over by American missionaries, among them evangelicals who have been singled out by the government.
Middle-of-the-road Catholics are happy to march hand-in-hand with mainline Protestants over immigration and inequality.
It marks the victory of William of Orange, leader of the Protestants, over the Catholic forces of King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
But with several parades blocked this year from going through or near Catholic areas by British security forces, Protestant anger turned against fellow Protestants over whom to blame for the last 10 days of widespread rioting.
The agreement they reached last month goes to the heart of the conflict: For the first time, Catholics would share control with the Protestants over the police and justice systems.
An article on July 18 about the despair of Northern Ireland's majority Protestants over economic and political gains by Catholics misspelled the name of the river in Belfast where construction of homes and businesses is drawing Catholics in large numbers.
The standoff between Catholic and Protestant leaders over transferring authority over the police and the courts to Belfast from London — which is partly about money and partly about politics — could stall the process of devolving power to Northern Ireland.
The layering of worldviews — in Keti's case, Nigerian modernity over Protestant missionary Christianity over traditional tribal religion — is a recognizably magic-realist construction, but whereas in a García Márquez novel the buried past would erupt fantastically through the rational present, for Habila, the spell never quite works.
By 1646, however, Governor Leonard Calvert had retaken both St . Marys and Kent Island with support from Governor Berkeley of Virginia, and, after Leonard Calvert died in 1648, Cecil Calvert appointed a pro-Parliament Protestant to take over as governor.
