[Cronos]

He was decried by our media and cultural elites as a moral reactionary who had failed to bring his church into the 21st century.

you mean like how they forced the ECUSA into what they call the 21st century by stripping it of all reasons to be called a church (supporting murder a.k.a. abortion, supporting debauched lifestyles etc). That ain't the 21st century, that's pre-Christian Rome with its orgies or perhaps Moab or Ammon or Sodom. That's not the future, that's the evil past the media want to restart

[Vicomte13]

"That ain't the 21st century, that's pre-Christian Rome with its orgies or perhaps Moab or Ammon or Sodom."

No, pre-Christian Rome was a more fun and less guilty place. Folks did not know better, and so were not hypocrites when they threw themselves into the orgies with reckless abandon.
The post-Christian Episcopalian leaders cannot plead ignorance. They know, or once knew, the rules and the One True God, and actively chose to reject him in order to wear their miters into the greasy orgy pile.

Very different.
Biggest difference: when the Romans heard the Truth, they STOPPED.