Monday, August 17, 2009  What papal vestments look like...
Associated Press photo from 1963.  The last of the pharaoh
popes...and would be nice to see popes vested in splendor like
this again.  We are now far enough away from the sixties where
we can now make a return to some of this without riots in the
streets and that's a news flash for some.   Anonymous said...  I
once read that Paul VI personally did not want the Novus Ordo,
nor to do away with the Papal Court, nor to discard these
beautiful vestments....but that he bent to the will of the
enormously powerful radicals such as Annibale Bugnini, and the
liberal liturgical crew after Vatican II...Virgilio Noe et al.
It was under their direction that everything was discarded. Paul
VI basically said "Yes" to their every whim. If so, he has a lot
to answer for. As do his successors.  Anonymous said...  I think
Pope Paul had a very refined almost austere personal taste and
was attracted to simpler forms of vestments and papal life
unfortunately that seems to h