COMMENT: “'All lapsed Catholics are activating like sleeper agents,' the webcomic creator and science fiction author Shaenon K. Garrity posted on Bluesky. You bet they are. Suddenly, non-practicing Catholics – I reject that word ‘lapsed’ – who didn’t know they had one bit of fond feeling left for the church are talking to me about riding at dawn with Leo. It’s not just Catholics, of course, who have responded this way to Trump’s war on Leo. The pope 'is the only one getting me through this,' one non-Catholic friend told me – the ‘this’ being Trump’s second term. To the extent that Trump has a plan, I don’t think it was to Make Rome Great Again. But all this time I’ve been looking for one good thing he’s ever done, and this might be it." "The lamb-like horns and dragon voice of the symbol point to a striking contradiction between the professions and the practice of the nation thus represented. The 'speaking' of the nation is the action of its legislative and judicial authorities. By such action it will give the lie to those liberal and peaceful principles which it has put forth as the foundation of its policy. The prediction that it will speak 'as a dragon,' and exercise 'all the power of the first beast,' plainly foretells a development of the spirit of intolerance and persecution that was manifested by the nations represented by the dragon and the leopard-like beast. And the statement that the beast with two horns 'causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast,' indicates that the authority of this nation is to be exercised in enforcing some observance which shall be an act of homage to the papacy" {GC88 442.1}.