One of the most remarkable of those signs has been the recurring ability of the Christian faith to act against the normal ways of the world in the exercise of power. Throughout Western history, power has been a far more potent narcotic than the multitude of physical means that humans have used to get high. Power feeds on itself. It is never satisfied. It is almost never relinquished voluntarily.
Power nurtures the idolatry of self.
It turns those in its vicinity into sycophants. It thrives in environments that stifle the fruit of the Spirit. Power, like its near kin wealth, breeds burly camels grossly unprepared for threading the eye of the needle. And it almost never apologizes. Yet in the year 390 the most powerful human being in the Western world apologized.