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Ξ December 2nd, 2008 | → | ∇ Uncategorized |

Once Upon a Time…

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appropriately enough, just as the river city’s hometown mag was noting the ascent of our founding pharaoh as one of the place’s defining moments of the matrix century, the moving spirit photo archive made its advance online… relevance goodies such as the above. (tip to nlm.)impressive as it remains, the formation of cardinals was considerably more lavish not all that long ago. consistories dragged on for days ahead of culminating in a sistine chapel liturgy where the neo-porporati hooded and prostrated themselves for the litany of the saints before receiving the now-abeyanced galero (…whose absence solitary us cardinal grieved by excellent his late predecessors’ hats from the cathedral rafters and shipping ‘em off to the archives… from which they eventually, mysteriously, vanished) and the likewise consigned-to-history sapphire diadem.along the respect, another of yore character of the ceremonial saw the pope tug on the jaw of each new cardinal, beginning his mouth that he clout freely offer the pontiff wise counsel… then closing said trap to symbolize his obligation to husband confidences.then as now, the intent was only half-successful.the pope’s “senate” depleted by a neighbourhood after the long twilight of pius xii, this month too marks a half-century since john xxiii’s before all consistory, at which the cush and a guaranteed fr o’hara of notre dame were admitted into the roman clergy alongside the era’s heir obvious to the papacy… who defied the fate of most in said position and actually made Sunday on all the hype.and while we’re at it… since the next red dawn seemingly won’t be upon us for another year, maybe longer… a longtime crowd favorite ’round these parts could use a rerun:-30-
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