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Auld Kirk. Since its beginnings with the Scottish Reformation in 1560, the Kirk has held fast to a Calvinism that in one sense is more rigid than John Calvin's. Calvin's influence on John Knox, the great Scottish reformer, made him an architect of the Kirk'...
Anything goes. John George Haigh, who dissolved nine British subjects in acid after first quaffing goblets of their blood, collected $14,000 from the News of the World for an exclusive story of his grisly deeds. An attorney for a woman cleared of fatally poisoning her spouse accepted bids on...
...confession at least once a year* - and he has already been more than a year in office. For Catholics. non-Catholics, and any who feared that a Catholic President might try to resolve the nation's problems with the help of some unknown grey eminence in a confessional box, the fascinating speculation is: What would the Presidential confessor reply if such questions were asked? In his own answer. Father Reedy suggested that non-Catholic fears have been misplaced. " On all these questions," he said at the annual Wisconsin Catholic Action Convention, "my advice as a confessor would...
When Mintoff tried to boost tourism in order to help the economy, hurt by cutbacks at the British naval base, the Archbishop squelched a proposal to build a gambling casino and censured bikinis as immodest. Finally, left-leaning Mintoff threatened to seek economic aid from neutralist Egypt or Communist Yugoslavia...
At the end of the two-day meeting, the churchmen agreed to meet in Chicago next February, formally assigned papers to two theologians on the Gospel, the Scriptures and the Confession.