The Churches' response
Schools of Reconciliation: Issues in Joint Roman Catholic-Anglican Education
by Priscilla Chadwick (Cassell, 1994)
[4] Also Darby (1986, p.130): `I would alienate half my parish if I invited a Roman Catholic priest to my church', said one minister.
[5] Gallagher and Worrall (1982), p.211
[6] This group, led by Ian Paisley, has been vociferous in opposition to ecumenism. At the Martyr's Memorial Church on 26 January 1975, Mr. Paisley said: `The Lord will not deliver Ulster while her people do not realize that there are strange gods among us in the form of ecumenical clergy... who would lead the Protestants of Ulster array' (Irish Times, 27 January 1975).
[7] Non-subscribing Presbyterians are mainly found in Ireland. In the eighteenth century they split off from the Presbyterians who required to sign the Westminster Confessions, claiming that the authority of the Bible was all that should be recognized, not any interpretation of it; they then moved towards Unitarianism and Arianism, deciding that the doctrine of the Trinity is absent from the Scripture. Their links with British Churches are with the Unitarians.
[8] For example Archbishop Wiseman (to the Select Committee on Education in Ireland, 1836): `It might easily be managed to give Protestant and Catholic a common education, reserving religious education of their respective classes to their own pastors.'
[9] Cardinal Cahal Daly, now Archbishop of Armagh, was previously Bishop of Down and Connor from 1982. Before this he was Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnois for fifteen years, having previously served for 21 years lecturing on scholastic philosophy at Queen's University, Belfast.
[10] On 16 January 1978 O'Fiaich had also commended the appointment of a Protestant to the management committee of a Catholic grammar school.
[11] See Revd David Armstrong (1985)
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