This article is a powerful, and timely, cri de coeur. And it should rally those who profess even moderate loyalty to Christ to protest the gross vulgarity not only of Trump, but of males everywhere who seem to think such vulgarity not only a natural right, but a necessary rite of passage.

So where is that bastion of patriarchy (the Catholic Church) in this maelstrom of mysoginistic sleaze? Where you'd expect such a bastion to be, of course: in self-contented silence.

There's tragedy, and then there's Shakespearian tragedy. And both Trump and the patriarchal Catholic Church have within their characters the high potential for downfall.