It is a quotation from 'Juno and the Paycock'

You would have been sorely disappointed at the lack of fireworks on January 31st, given that the display was eleven months later on December 31st.

Not completely sure that Luther and the Counter Reformation are all that relevant to Christian practice in the 4th century. My comment is fairly widely accepted amongst historians, I believe (i.e. it is not an original thought).

One theory was that it meant that when you died you were in a state of grace (having just been baptised) with all the sins of your life wiped clean.

Primo Levi is clear on the distinction in 'The Drowned and the Saved' - especially in the chapter 'Useless Violence'.

To adapt Pauli (who said of ideas from his PhD students one of "wrong, very wrong, not even wrong"), what Trump says is either false, very false, or not even false.

I think he can only make it when a European replacement for US support to Ukraine is in place. There is a lot more riding on the statement in Europe than in Canada.