Such Deaths
Hamilton, Carol
lege chapel. 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...
...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...
...In a country with a population of 5.5 million, these are ment of Scottish politics and culture...
...Is this Protestant...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...Scottish Christianity is still broadly divided among Catholicism, Presbyterianism, and Episcopalianism, but the years since the Reformation have seen a reversal of fortunes...
...ly secularizing...
...philosophy of culture...
...the list...
...The impact of Irish immigration on Ameri- no surprise nor mercy...
...There is no primus in the Scottish Catholic church, though Across the Irish Sea in Ulster, parties representing Irish rethere are two metropolitans...
...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...
...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...
...The question, howevsignificant numbers...
...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...
...terianism with Scottish settlement in the American Northeast, All her words bat our heads South, and Midwest...
...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...
...that nothing should be pegged to its destiny...
...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...
...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...
...But today the situation is more complex...
...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...
...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...
...Commonweal 9 July 14, 2000...
...However, Cardinal created Northern Ireland Assembly...
...Center for Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of Saint AnWith sectarianism in decline and Catholic participation drews...
...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...
...Intellectually and culturally, the Catholic contribeing legally "protected...
...The Kirk (the Church of Scotland), by er, is what ideals they can offer the new Scotland...
...Also, Scotland is now religiously diverse, We shout out, frenzied, and demand with Catholicism a major player...
...in the night, discovered us often, The "Celtic" influence on Christianity in America has often alone and waiting, he shows been profound...
...Rather it enjoys the lesser standing of promoted...
...First, her way of beating the clothes Ireland has significant non-Catholic populations and is rapid- white on the river rocks...
...He has written frequently for the London Times, the Glasgow in the professions increasing, Roman Catholics in Scotland Herald, and the Tablet...
...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...
Vol. 127 • July 2000 • No. 13
