When you first read this, Easter will have passed into a workweek of toil and care. And with it the moment when Pagan Ritual, Judeo Christian Heritage and unadorned belief celebrate rebirth, redemption and the eternally sacred. Many will mourn the deadly mass murders at Churches and hotels in the grimmer corners of Sri Lanka this past Easter Sunday.

Many will not.

For countless Catholic faithful, God’s mortal Vicar upon His throne is the manifestation of the Almighty’s infallibility—hence the phrase Ex Cathedra  “from the chair,” a phrase meaning the inviolate seat of divine knowledge. Alas, one leg of the Vicar’s infallible chair suffered a catastrophe. A grotesque fire in the Cathedral.