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Dear sinkspur,

"As for the tiara, the sedia gesttatoria, white buskins, gloves, jeweled mitres, the cappa magna, and all the other trappings worn by the successors of fishermen, I say 'good riddance.'"

How can you say that?!? Don't you realize that the pope wouldn't be pope without all that stuff?!? Didn't Peter and Linus and Anacletus and Clement have tiaras and all that stuff???

NO???....

... Well are you sure they were really popes??



;-)

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[sinkspur]

I have it on fairly good authority that Linus wore white sandals.

That same authority says that Paul VI refused to put on the tiara because it would have snapped his chicken neck. John XXIII wore it, but he had the aperture to support it. Pius XII wore the tiara at his "coronation," but he suffered from neck pains for weeks after.

We KNOW how essential all these externals are to the Papacy.

I remember reading that the media had a cow when JFK refused to wear a top hat to his inauguration. That, incidentally, spelled the end of the top hat, and dress hat wearing in general suffered a serious decline after that.