There is a literary genre that Rome cultivated with mastery and that the Church, for centuries, regarded with the prudent distrust of one who knows the human heart: the panegyric. Pliny the Younger elevated it to an art form before Trajan, and since then we know that there is no more effective way to diminish a man than to loudly praise him. The official account of the Archdiocese of Valladolid seems to have rediscovered the genre this week, alb…
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There is a literary genre that Rome cultivated with mastery and that the Church, for centuries, regarded with the prudent distrust of one who knows the human heart: the panegyric. Pliny the Younger elevated it to an art form before Trajan, and since then we know that there is no more effective way to diminish a man than to loudly praise him. The official account of the Archdiocese of Valladolid seems to have rediscovered the genre this week, alb…