In this crazy week following Donald Trump's "enthronement" on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC, the only official dissenting voice to this endorsement of brute force came from a woman: Episcopal bishop of Washington Mariann Edgar Budde. Indeed, Donald Trump inaugurated his term by issuing executive orders against sexual minorities, immigrants, climate diplomacy...

At the same time, he pardoned the January 6, 2021 rioters, and supported the most extreme Israeli settlers. His friend and partner Elon Musk made, intentionally or not, the Nazi salute in front of the entire world, and Congressman Andy Ogles (Tennessee) proposed to "acquire" Greenland, boasting of being the "dominant predator"...

Faced with the flow of these excesses and this acceptance of brutality, the political world seems to have stuck its head in the sand, waiting for better days, and global public opinion is looking on, dazed, at this seemingly inevitable legitimization of "might makes right." It wasn't until the preaching of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde [delivered at a service at Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday, January 21, the day after the inauguration] that Donald Trump [in the front row at the service] was told that the Gospel calls for mercy, that so beautiful opening of the heart to the misfortune of others.

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