Religion: A Scots' Roman Holiday

Among the highest walls in Christendom is the one that stands between Roman Catholicism and the Church of Scotland.

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...

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