Other liturgical fashion statements from His Eminence are here, here, and here. And no, I am not obsessed.
Cardinal Burke is Cardinal Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura.
Photo from "The Cost of Looking Good in the Magic Kingdom" (pdf) from a link from Lapin.
Alleluia, er uh, Christ is risen?
ReplyDeletePentecost?
ReplyDeleteI don't think he shops at the J Wippell & Company behind Westminster Abbey. -- Scott Sullivan
ReplyDeleteAccording to the information at link from which I copied the photo, His Eminance buys Italian.
ReplyDeleteHow old are these vestments? Older than he is, I'll bet. He looks asleep(or dead) in this particular picture.
ReplyDeletesusan s., the vestments may be old, or not, but similar vestments may still be purchased.
ReplyDeleteAfter looking even more closely, I think that solid red bit under the embroidered "pinafore" looks like a hospital gown. I wonder if it has ties up the back like the ones I wore after my last surgery. And please don't tell me the proper name for it. I like to imagine that the names I attach to them are more descriptive.
DeleteAnd it does appear that the cardinal may have dosed off when the picture was taken.
ReplyDeletehmmmm... an example of the JOY of faith???
ReplyDeleteWhat are those things on his sleeves? Maybe he keeps his fazer and communicator in them. He looks ready to go back to his home planet.
ReplyDeleteIt's a wonder the cardinal doesn't pass out under all the layers.
ReplyDeleteCounterlight, what is a fazer?
All that fuss and the outfit is a dud...really horrible (btw, can't wait to leave Texas...enough bad Tex/Mex is enough)
ReplyDeleteLen, if you're going to do it, do it with some class. Does the cardinal ever look in a mirror? The gloves clash with the rest of the outfit, and the mitre is de trop.
ReplyDeleteMore like the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Hematoma... Not a very winning ensemble, imnsho.
ReplyDeleteThough I hear Gregory Straub may be interested, should he ever adapt his "look" to a more High Church format. ;-)
LOL!
DeleteApostolic Hematoma! Tobias, you are so very naughty.
DeleteGrandmere, you don't watch enough Star Trek. "Set fazers on stun!"
ReplyDeletePhaser.
DeleteWhy yes, I *am* a Trekker Nerd!
Counterlight, you're wrong. I don't watch Star Trek at all, and I never did (Hanging my head in shame).
DeleteI know the sleeves are lace over cardinal-red silk, but, in the photo, they look like a child's pajama print.
Maybe the embroidery should bear the legend "Your tithe money at work!"
ReplyDeleteOh, that's excellent, CL!!
DeleteOh that so works, Doug!!
DeleteLike!
DeleteBut what about the shoes? Isn't there a picture of the shoes? Custom, Prada, Jimmy Choo, I don't care. I wanna see the shoes!
ReplyDeleteBex, I could not find a picture showing the shoes, but if you click the link in the post to "The Cost of Looking Good...", you can find shoes that would match the rest of the vestments at $800 per pair.
DeleteI've got Manolos that cost more than that. Kidding. Kidding.
DeleteYou're not kidding. I can tell. ;-)
DeleteMargaret stopped wearing the gloves, otherwise... lol
ReplyDeleteMargaret?
DeleteHaving served as a minister of communion at times, I just got a wicked image of trying to grasp communion wafers while wearing those gloves (which don't seem to fit as well as my gardening gloves). Imagine the expressions of people waiting in line to receive while u fumble to grasp even 1 wafer! Of course if he takes them off to give communion, then his raison d'etre for the glove is shot to hell, hmmmm. Guess he sits that part out?
ReplyDeleteSigh, what fools we mortals be!
nij
Nij, I know the gloves are removed before the Eucharistic prayer begins...or perhaps before that. Would the cardinal preach with gloves? I don't know.
DeleteIt's the gloves . . . and the ring sized to fit over the glove, which get me.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing more I can say about Burke which is printable on a family-friendly site. >:-X
Yes, it's the gloves and the mitre, which must be what - 15" tall?
DeleteYou people have no shame - b-tching about what Jesus wore at the Last Supper.
ReplyDeleteIn his dreams maybe.
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ReplyDeleteI have followed all your links and he looks deeply asleep in every one of them. Poor chap must be dazed and over heated underneath all those layers. A case of artificially induced ecclesiastical hot air?
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