The Scriptures of the last days of the year are full of references to great upheavals in the natural world and the body politic, signs in the sun and moon, wars and revolutions. Some see these signs being fulfilled before our very eyes, but Jesus tells us it is not that simple.
The signs of the times from America are worrying, not because, as some claim, a Trump presidency brings the end of the world a step nearer, but because what the US election shows us is the increasing fragility of democracy and the rise of the dictatorship of relativism so accurately analysed by Pope Emeritus Benedict.
