I don't tend to offer commentary on causes célèbres. Our Bishop and other authoritative people have done this well. Presuming the Olympics were indeed subjected to simulations of the De Vinci Last Supper portrayal, of St. Denis the Protomartyr of France (evoked through Dionysus the Greek god of extravagance in the exhilarating agents including wine, lust, and theatre), and a mythic spin on St. Jeanne d'Arc on a white horse, and all of it in drag.
We know well enough from our own sacred history that what is oppressed is multiplied: think of the Israelites in Egypt prior to the interventions God arranged through Moses. Think of Holy Mother Church herself in the wake of Denis and his companions of every time and land. The "last acceptable prejudice" also will persist, under the Enemy's baton, but he has won the silver medal in mockery. Our Lord and His team took the gold when they mocked death itself.
I don't expect any retraction or clarification from Paris, and some have cited the curiously selective power outage (excluding Sacre Coeur, Paris' Sacred Heart Basilica) as a counter strike for those who seek signs in the peculiarities of life. Especially in the modern era, the French will French; the Adversary will oppose. What is resisted tends to persist.
In His appearance to Saint Margaret Mary, Jesus already noted the ingratitude His Heart receives from those He has loved unto death. We can recapture the culture of reparation that prays and works not to uphold our own dignity as a people offended (such sallies usually recoil anyhow), but to restore our own reverence and perhaps to inspire repentance in others.
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