I see the modern Pilate so relentless.

"...I see ...
Christ in his own Vicar captive made.

I see him yet another time derided;
I see renewed the vinegar and gall,
And between living thieves I see him slain.

I see the modern Pilate so relentless,
This does not sate him, but without decretal
He to the temple bears his sordid sails!..."

(Dante, Purgatorio, XX: 88-90)

Thank you, Fr. Hunwicke.

From Fr. Hunwicke:
... We all know that those who are gunning for the Pope are hypocrites.
We know that they are in many cases dirty hypocrites
whose own lifestyle is unmarked by any evidence of sexual continence.
We know that they are bigoted hypocrites who are only marginally,
if at all, interested
if a rabbi or a humanist gets 'done' for pedophilia
or if an Anglican diocese is bankrupted
by the compensation it has paid out to abused Inuit children.

There is one organisation that they detest
with a loathing curiously like Hitler's dislike of the Jews.
There is one man for whose downfall they have an insatiable bloodlust.

Nil novi sub sole.
Dante described
(Purgatorio XX 86-88)
how Christ was again made captive and mocked
in the person of His Vicar.

How very, very, appropriate
that this malevolent evil
should be reaching its climax in Holy Week.
Satan has a real sense of liturgy. ...

From Anglican Fr. Hunwicke, SSC

"Fr John Hunwicke, SSC is the Priest-in-Charge of S. Thomas the Martyr, Oxford.
He was for many years Head of Theology at Lancing College, Sussex,
before moving on to serve as a simple country parson in the Diocese of Exeter."
[ - From the introduction to Fr. Hunwicke's Blog]