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But as the normal and the deviant continue to swap places, our cultural monsters—the ones we create, and the ones we hold a mirror up to—continue to raise questions of where we situate decency, what we canonize, and what we try to exorcise.

The Republican freak show has gathered in Milwaukee this week to canonize and coronate Donald Trump, fresh off his felony conviction and a recent assassination attempt.

“It’s a gift of God that Pope Francis — an Argentine pope, a Jesuit pope — can canonize her,” he said.

On Sunday Francis will canonize Mama Antula, whose real name was María Antonia di San Giuseppe de Paz y Figueroa, in a ceremony that will also mark his first meeting with Argentina’s new libertarian president, Javier Milei.

It turns out that this massive publicity blitz was built on decades of work—expensive work—to canonize Thomas.