
Did you know? That JPII was given a Papal Tiara by Hungarians in 1981? Kind of a mix between the older ones, and Paul VI’s hollowed-out tank shell. Too bad he didn’t wear it.
At Matins/the Office of Readings on Holy Saturday the Church gives us this 'ancient homily', I find it incredibly moving, it is abou...
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That is news.
Well, obviously John Paul II never wore it.
No one is likely to present Pope Benedict with a tiara, but he might quite like to be given a camelaucum, which was worn by popes from the early eighth century
and which predates both the tiara and the mitre.
Would it not be possible to submit a great worldwide petition to the Holy Father that he would again wear the tiara?
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