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418. The miracle and mystery of the law

By Joel Jacobsen

Equal Danger, by the great Sicilian novelist Leonardo Sciascia, is set in an unnamed country not, perhaps, entirely unlike Italy.  The hero, Rogas, goes to see President Riches of the Supreme Court.  As tactfully as he can, he suggests judicial error may have resulted in the conviction of an innocent man: "You are a practicing Catholic?" "No." "But Catholic?" Rogas made a gesture that signified: like everyone else.  And in fact he did believe that all men everywhere were a little bit Catholic. "Of course, like everyone else," the President interpreted him correctly.  Assuming the posture of a priest at catechism: "Let us take, well, the Mass, the mystery of transubstantiation, the bread and the wine that become the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Christ...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on January 19, 2010 (boomark / email).