simul justus et peccator . . . we all make it in spite of ourselves . . . God's grace abounds even in the face of Trump's vile, heinous behavior . . . so Trump, ever impudent, lives in the lane of "sin boldly that grace may abound" without -- because he doesn't read -- attending to the small print

Revere rides again!

What became of "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal 3:38)? Our very own Saint Paul thrashed essentialism centuries ago . . . and he knew well that "male and female [God] created them" (Gen 1:27).

But lest we despair, he continues: "[W]hen the masses triumph . . . violence should triumph . . . and this is a good symptom, because it means that automatically the descent is about to begin. Today violence is the rhetoric of the period, the empty rhetorician has made it his own."