Becket and Trump
It is nothing short of astonishing that a President of a traditionally Protestant country would name last week as a day dedicated to a Catholic bishop killed by a pre-Protestant state. As most readers already know, President Donald Trump proclaimed "December 29, 2020, as the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket" here in the United States. Becket received his help from Rome, not from the State. Perhaps Trump recognizes it is quite the opposite for conservative Catholics in the USA today: Many support President Trump, not the current events in Rome. It's a very strange irony that doesn't line up with Becket. But what does line up with [...]