Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russell Kirk, one of the foremost conservatives in America, last night asserted that "ritualistic liberal slogaulzing" was responsible for U.S. humiliation in Hungary, the Congo, Cuba, and Laos...
...Shame!" cried conservative delegates in the camp of Glasgow's Rev. John Gray ("I'm Auld Kirk to the back teeth"), who insisted that the Kirk honor the Westminster Confession. "What fellowship can there be between light and darkness?" a minister shouted. When the resolution passed and the Kirk ruled that its Moderator could visit the Pope if invited, the conservative Free Church's journal thundered: "Instead of waiting cap in hand for an invitation from the Pope, we should be storming that bastion of AntiChrist with positive truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ...
gracefully arranged things by extending an invitation through Augustin Cardinal Bea, head of the Vatican's ecumenical Secretariat for Christian Unity. To mollify the fundamentalists, Dr. Craig insisted that he was going to Rome mainly for centenary celebrations at Rome's Scots Kirk of St. Andrews-a churchman's Roman holiday that, incidentally, would include a visit to the Pope. In a final effort to block the visit, Britain's National Union of Protestants dispatched...
...Holy Land. L'Osservatore Romano pronounced the Vatican "grateful" for the visit; the Vatican added-lest anyone forget-that the visit had been merely a "courtesy call." The visit leaves relations among all the churches of Christianity more genial than at any time since Luther. But within the Kirk there are hard feelings. The honorary treasurer of the Kirk of St. Andrews resigned his post in protest. When Dr. Craig turned up at St. Andrews to preach the centenary service, he felt it necessary to soothe the fundamentalists of his clan...
...Kirk, he said, "adheres to the 16th century Reformation and to the theological and ethical tradition deriving from Calvin and Knox." From the back of the church came the voice of Presbyterianism...