Saturday, October 31, 2026

Now he's a Monsignor!

We should chip in and buy this man a red biretta for Christmas. Does anyone know his size? Should we allow for the afro? It looks like he has figured out that giving out the history of the Compass & Square Boys is like catnip for trads.

 


In the eighties, it was not uncommon to see a Civil Rights agitator and pastor of a storefront Pentecostal or Baptist church giving a press conference on the boob tube dressed like he had just been shoplifting at Gammarelli’s.

These coloureds had a thing for the most ostentatious pre-Conciliar vestments. Admittedly, the way they put their ensembles together revealed their confusion but you had to acknowledge they had better taste in vestments than Novus Ordites who couldn’t even figure out that the stole went under the chasuble.  





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