Diminution drains this office of the sacerdotal pomposities that have encrusted it.

Actually, the sole benefit of Trumpov’s election would be in making the presidency’s sacerdotal role — the nation’s moral tutor — terminally ludicrous.

In December 1984, Rev. Cardenal was expelled from the Jesuit order and was suspended from conducting sacerdotal duties until further notice.

“The sacerdotal gun did not go off,” The Brooklyn Eagle reported.

Any serious collector will recognize this sacerdotal feeling — though I, being primarily a reader, prefer first editions I won’t be afraid to handle or even scribble in and make my own.