Friday, May 11, 2007

What the...?


Captions, anyone?

7 Comments:

Blogger Ttony said...

Father is trying hard but he hasn't quite got the "Reform of the Reform" yet.

10:52 AM  
Blogger jsheridan said...

His Excellency couldn't decide what to wear, so he used everything in his closet!

2:54 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is it something to do with the light, or is his cappa crimson? If it is, does anyone know why?

8:33 AM  
Blogger leo said...

The cappa is a taborro (spelling, guys?), a sort of double-winter cloak. It is one of these pieces of prelatical non-liturgical dress that supposedly were supressed but still keep popping up every now and then, much to the dismay of the "Keep it simple/Don't offend the poor/Christ didn't have any of that stuff either/You dress like a woman"-crowd.

As for the color, it doesn't look that freakish to me. Seems to be a middle-of-the-road episcopal purple.

3:33 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is the funniest thing ever.

2:38 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

tabarro, or at least it attempts to mimic a tabarro for a midgit.

The colour is normal; it's roman paonazza (magenta), the colour of papal livery adopted by prelates in the 19th c. to replace the old prelatial purple which was sometimes like blue)

12:26 PM  
Blogger Leo said...

What? It's just out of the ordinary.

7:46 PM  

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