My claim is not that Donald Trump is “the” Antichrist or literally Satan. My claim is that just as people like Robert Prevost—or Dorothy Day or Óscar Romero—can “image” Christ, can show us glimpses of the face of Christ, so also those who descend into selfishness and egomania can “image” Satan.
Shaun Blanchard
Shaun Blanchard is senior lecturer in theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia. He is the author of The Synod of Pistoria and Vatican II: Jansenism and the Struggle for Catholic Reform (OUP, 2020).
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What a failed 18th-century synod—and a talking point for Archbishop Viganò—can teach us about synodality
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