Vatican’s ‘trial of the century’ could end in a whimper rather than a bang

Vatican’s ‘trial of the century’ could end in a whimper rather than a bang Alessandro Diddi, right, Vatican deputy prosecutor, speaks during the third session of the trial of six defendants accused of financial crimes. Photo: CNS

Letters from Rome T.S. Eliot may well be the greatest of all American poets, and his 1925 poem “The Hollow Men” contains perhaps the most-quoted lines of any 20th century American literary work, usually by people who have no idea where the lines come from: “This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang…

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