Uganda, April 4 -- I am on downtime. I did attend two of the Easter Masses, Palm Sunday, with the Passion of the Christ, and Easter Sunday in two remarkably different churches. One a city church, one-time probably Irish or Italian or Irish-Italian, in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where big industries of the petrochemical era once reigned supreme, turning the Hudson River into a toxic mess.

I was born further north in the upstate of the Empire State very different from New York City, its commercial engine. On Easter Sunday, Mass was in sunny Florida. The sunshine state can summon the sun at all times. Many former New Yorkers flock here for retirement and accompanying them are symbols of their former lives. Former President Donald...