Even before the first month of 2021 has ended, it's become abundantly clear that anybody hoping that the tumult surrounding the 2020 Presidential Election would end with the year itself has been profoundly disappointed.
But while some Americans expressed concern the Trump Campaign's baseless claims that he lost due to widespread voter fraud would undermine public faith in American democracy last year, it seems that the nation's cultural institutions saw that worry confirmed when intruders clad in Trump paraphernalia stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
And in the weeks since, both Donald Trump and his allies have started facing consequences for what public officials and private organizations alike have identified as a role in inciting the violence.
And it's in this climate that we find a priest facing some consequences of his own after an unusual exorcism prayer.