“Bishop, know thy dignity!”: On overcoming episcopal diminishment The following essay was written by a priest and published in the latest issue of the periodical Calx Mariae published by Voice of the Family. Reprinted here with permission.IN THE YEAR 372, when a “second wave” of Arianism was sweeping over the eastern part of the Catholic Church, an extremely powerful and aggressive man came to visit the bishop of a city in what is now called Turkey. The name of this powerful man, somewhat ironically, was Modestus. He was the praetorian prefect. This meant that he governed most of the...