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Ca'ed tae repentance. (Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland)

The Economist (US) | November 12, 1988 | Copyright

Who would shave on a Saturday to avoid doing so on Sunday morning? Weekend slug-abeds and extreme zealots of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland. One of this sect's less zealous members is Lord Mackay of Clashfern, the Lord Chancellor, political head of Britain's judiciary. To the alarm of some of his co-religionists he was seen, in 1986 and 1988, attending Roman Catholic requiem masses for two of his friends. Last week he was suspended as an elder of the Kirk and banned from taking communion for doing so.

The Free Presbyterians are a splinter from a splinter. In…

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