Catholic Scotland?
Haldane, John
National Review, the conservative...
...To the north of my study lie the United States, Scotland has not become an cliff-caves reputed to have been inhabited by eighth-century independent state...
...The question, howevsignificant numbers...
...As in the United States, Episco- bution should be to challenge materialism, instrumentalpalianism is a small and largely middle-class denomination, ism, hedonism, and short-term gratification, and to present strongest in the more affluent areas-principally the capital, in a Scottish context the central ingredients of a Catholic Edinburgh...
...case...
...and Gore can be seen in their overall tax in the future...
...In a list of the "Scot- are negotiating peaceful modes of co-existence and seeking tish Power 100" published in 1999, he was ranked eleventh to develop new forms of association with the Irish Republic among the most powerful figures in the country-one place and the British mainland...
...Gore's potpourri of tax reductions As the good conservatives at National class (couples earning between $60,000 flow primarily to the middle and bot- Review understand, the central issue in and $100,000) the government would put tom...
...Center for Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of Saint AnWith sectarianism in decline and Catholic participation drews...
...If income people should be given a chance "support for tax cuts and Social Securithey could save only $300 a year, the to build wealth-without buying the ty reform is more important than his government would put in $900...
...Will it be used for Main said, the match is the same but the people pay the most in income taxes...
...0 plan embraces the strongest argument The lead editorial in the July 3 issue of© 2000, Washington Post Writers Group gested recently that this historical connection could no longer be taken for granted...
...broad-based tax cuts that especially help income ceiling in each category is cut in Here is the great underreported fact the well-off, or for tax reductions and half...
...The sees of Edinburgh and publicans and UK unionists (largely of Scottish Protestant exSaint Andrews in the east, and of Glasgow in the west have traction) have once again taken their seats in the recently been co-equals since the Middle Ages...
...religious divisions have diminished...
...Rather it enjoys the lesser standing of promoted...
...Carol Hamilton Though all but destroyed in that religious revolution, Catholicism is now the largest worshiping denomination (thanks largely to immigration-principally from Ireland) with 750,000 souls, a third of whom attend Mass on Sun- can hope to make a significant contribution to the developday...
...In a country with a population of 5.5 million, these are ment of Scottish politics and culture...
...Christianity came to Scotland with Saint Ninian at the n May 1999, Scotland went to the polls to elect end of the fourth century and established itself in a series members of the newly created Scottish Parlia- of settlements...
...In consequence, the popular tendency back and forth, leave us stupid in the States is to think of Ireland as Catholic and Scotland as with froth on our lips...
...His influence reflects both the size of the Catholic Whether or not they lead eventually to political separation population and his own willingness publicly to reaffirm tra- from the United Kingdom, the timing of Northern Irish and ditional moral teaching on such matters as social justice, Scottish devolution seems providential: an opportunity and a abortion, and same-sex relationships...
...torical-political allegiances and traditional class, ethnic, and Well, partly...
...Tellingly, the er $1,000 in savings, the government of Social Security privatizers-that low- magazine goes on to note that Bush's would add $3,000 to their account...
...One of the most ancient of these is Saint AnI ment...
...he succeeds on taxes and Social Securiings by couples earning $30,000 to The larger differences between Bush ty, it will be easier to limit government $60,000 a year would be dollar-for-dollar...
...Bush's big income tax cuts con- this campaign is how to use the money up a dollar for every $3 saved...
...ly secularizing...
...And for the higher end of the middle plans...
...terianism with Scottish settlement in the American Northeast, All her words bat our heads South, and Midwest...
...In regard to the lat- challenge to develop new political orders and to re-establish ter, he is now perceived as giving voice to general public the influence of Christianity upon two Celtic peoples...
...Scottish Christianity is still broadly divided among Catholicism, Presbyterianism, and Episcopalianism, but the years since the Reformation have seen a reversal of fortunes...
...The Kirk (the Church of Scotland), by er, is what ideals they can offer the new Scotland...
...Is this Protestant...
...Contrary to the impression of some in drews, from where I am writing...
...But it has will be willing to make his side of that structure than to those at the top...
...shared in the economic boom...
...A street away, Holy Trinity Church houses a memorial to Archbishop Having crossed so many seas, Sharp, murdered in 1679 by "Covenanters" (Presbyterian tapped at so many windows opponents of the Episcopalian tendency...
...Gore's not been lost on shrewd conservatives...
...You wonBush is that Gore gives larger benefits That has largely been lost, even though der how forcefully and explicitly Gore to those at the bottom of the income Bush isn't hiding anything...
...that nothing should be pegged to its destiny...
...One is contrast, has suffered a fairly dramatic decline, though it the concept of society as a moral community in which reremains a force, particularly within the older professions sponsibilities stand alongside rights, in which material goods and the social establishment...
...Also, Scotland is now religiously diverse, We shout out, frenzied, and demand with Catholicism a major player...
...The accounts are capped at $2,000 a about the 2000 campaign: Bush is far spending programs to help those in the year for individuals, $4,000 for a couple...
...idea that a wealth-creation plan needs spending initiatives-not least because if The government match for the sav- to be carved out of Social Security...
...Looking southward I can see the fifLabour party, Cardinal Thomas Winning of Glasgow sug- teenth-century tower of the university's Saint Salvator's ColCommonweal 8 July 14, 2000 lege chapel...
...It remains part of the United Kingdom, Christian hermits-the Culdees (Celide: "Friends of God...
...National Review, the conservative flagship magazine, is headlined "The Right Choice" and it rejects the idea that Bush has mechanically "moved to the center...
...Both are conservative priorities, and both are bolder policies than previous Republican presidential candidates have advocated...
...are produced with an eye to social benefit as well as to profUnlike the Church of England, however, the Kirk is not an it, and in which the value of life is respected and its quality "established" church...
...For un- centrate benefits at the upper end, for from the federal surplus that's left over married individuals without children, the simple reason that upper-income after debt reduction...
...but now has something akin to a state legislature...
...As a result, the future is unlikely to have the settled patterns of the past...
...In a recess on one side of the sanctuary lies the tomb of the college founder, Bishop Kennedy, and across from it stands the pulpit of John Knox: testaments to the old Such Deaths Catholic faith and the new reformed one...
...However, Cardinal created Northern Ireland Assembly...
...However, while Catholi- tion of pilgrims from throughout Europe, come to venerate cism has traditionally been associated with the Socialist the bones of the Apostle...
...in the night, discovered us often, The "Celtic" influence on Christianity in America has often alone and waiting, he shows been profound...
...More generally, however, Scotland's hisCATHOLIC SCOTLAND...
...Looking to the future, it is possiahead of the leader of the Scottish National party, and the ble to hope that, as in Scotland, religious and political difonly religious figure of any denomination or faith included in ferences will no longer be aligned in Ulster...
...His immediate concern was to alert John Haldane Labour to the danger of pursuing policies at odds with Catholic values...
...But today the situation is more complex...
...First, her way of beating the clothes Ireland has significant non-Catholic populations and is rapid- white on the river rocks...
...Bush, the magazine correctly notes, "has been reliably conservative on the issues that matter...
...more conservative than his sunny and middle and below who haven't fully The difference between Gore and compassionate speeches would suggest...
...The pre- Atop the cliffs stand the ruins of the medieval cathedral, in dictable result of the elections was that parties of the left its glory one of the largest in Christendom and the destinaand center-left formed the majority...
...The impact of Irish immigration on Ameri- no surprise nor mercy...
...Commonweal 9 July 14, 2000...
...Intellectually and culturally, the Catholic contribeing legally "protected...
...Or is can Catholicism needs no mention, and that of the Scots on this wail her lullaby Protestantism is well known via the association of Presby- and La Llorona is the mother/father...
...There is no primus in the Scottish Catholic church, though Across the Irish Sea in Ulster, parties representing Irish rethere are two metropolitans...
...philosophy of culture...
...The two issues to which Bush has devoted the most time since winning the primaries are free-market reform of Social Security and missile defense," the editors write...
...He has written frequently for the London Times, the Glasgow in the professions increasing, Roman Catholics in Scotland Herald, and the Tablet...
...After a quarter-centuWinning is chairman of the episcopal conference and the ry of murderous intercommunal violence, the two traditions de facto leader of Scottish Catholics...
...El sentiment and increasingly is coming to be seen, even by opponents-as in England was the late Cardinal Basil Hume John Haldane is professor of philosophy and senior fellow of the of Westminster-as the national voice of Christianity...
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