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Last week, with deft help from Pope John XXIII, it was scaled. Dr. Archibald Craig, Moderator of the Scottish Kirk, stepped over the Pope's threshold and visited him within the Vatican's walls...
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's bulwark against the papacy. In 1647, Scottish delegates to the Westminster Assembly wed their church to a Confession of Faith that described the Pope as "AntiChrist, man of sin, son of perdition." The Archbishop of Canterbury's 1960 visit to Pope John tested the ground for all Protestantism...
...Russia. His latest is about the Queen whose present reputation is about as far removed from gamy gossip as it is possible to get. But in her own lifetime the black-draped Widow of Windsor was openly rumored to be having a Lady Chatterley-like affair with a Scottish gamekeeper, and Scandalmonger Tisdall makes the most...
This backstairs stuff is as unconvincing as any tabloid keyhole column. But there can be no doubt that the willful Queen had a warmly loving relationship with the rough Scottish servant. The only recorded time in which the two were alone together, thinking that they were unobserved, makes a touching, human vignette. On a walk near Balmoral in 1875, a Mr. John Barry-Torr and his wife rounded a bend to see an empty pony cart and, a few yards away, Victoria and John Brown. Brown, pinning a plaid round the Queen's shoulders, apparently scratched her; she squealed...
With a drug so widely and often casually used, it is almost impossible to be sure whether a woman was taking thalidomide at the critical time. Last week in the Lancet, a canny Scottish doctor told how he had done it. In Stirlingshire...