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| Benedict's coat-of-arms. |
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| Many people think of this as the pope's main headgear, but it is the bishop's mitre rather than the papal tiara. Benedict removed the tiara from his coat of arms. |
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| Ermine lined hat. Some have called it the Grinch hat. |
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| This has been called his Saturno hat, because it has rings like Saturn. Some call it his cowboy hat. |
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| The sombrero was recently given for his Mexican visit. |
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| A German Catholic businessman had this tiara made for Pope Benedict, but no pope has worn the papal crown since Pope Paul VI. |
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| One tradition is to give the pope a new zuchetto during a papal visit, getting the pope's to take home as a memento. Pope Benedict has discouraged this tradition. |
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| Baseball cap. |
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GJ - Grey Goose sent me the sombrero video, so I decided to collect all the papal headgear photos. One showing him wearing a tiara is an obvious fake.
Pope Benedict tends to play the average guy, a little more relaxed and fun than previous popes.
One of my friends, who would rather not be named, observed that the papacy gets more dangerous as it tries to appear more Protestant, less hostile.
The court chaplain for the Purple Palace, Pastor Weedon, calls Pope Benedict his favorite liturgical author.
All the Lutheran synods--ELCA, WELS, LCMS, ELS--have decided to follow the Church of Rome in the three-year lectionary, the liturgical year, and the liturgical colors. They have not told their members that they are aping the pope, but they are following his lead.
One reason is the ND-centric study of worship in America. The Lutherans are comatose about the Means of Grace and cannot articulate the efficacy of the Word in the Scriptures, in Luther, in the Book of Concord. Therefore, when they study worship toward a PhD at Notre Dame, they become enamored of self-serving Roman scholarship and transmit their enthusiasm to lesser lights in their own structure.
That is the other side of the coin, as they say. One side of Lutheran Enthusiasm is Fuller Seminary. The other side is Roman Catholicism.
KJV 2 Thessalonians 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away [apostasy] first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Papal Headgear - Prompted by the Grey Goose":
KJV - Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple [naos] of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Is the Greek word used in this verse for temple the same word that is used for the human body being referred to as a temple in other parts of Scripture?
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GJ - The Greek word - naos - is the same.
KJV 1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple [naos] of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man defile the temple [naos] of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Papal Headgear - Prompted by the Grey Goose":
The Emergent New Age religion fulfills this God given end time prophecy as it teaches that man is god. This is the same religion that the Church Growth apostacy laid the ground work for with the Emergent Church harvesting it's fruit. The (W)ELS continues to look for the Antichrist sitting in the temple of Jerusalem while they setup the Antichrist in men's hearts through their continued abuse of Christ's Word, Gospel and Church. They excommunicate faithful Christians who defend Justification by Faith Alone and provide lavish financing and continued protection for heinous false teachers who lead men, women and children away from Christ.
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LPC has left a new comment on your post "Papal Headgear - Prompted by the Grey Goose":
Brett,
In academia New Age Spiritualism is going strong. Many are junking materialist philosophies but they are also going the other end of anything goes spiritualism too. I blogged that most atheist are going agnostic but that means they are not becoming Christians but they become believers in new religions, i.e., pagan revival.
LPC
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GJ - The mantra here is "I am very spiritual but not religious." Everyone is supposed to nod solemnly.
I have had a few pagans in my classes, including two Wicca priestesses in the same class. They discovered each other, and it was good. Sometimes the class pagan is also a royal pain in the neck, attacking believers.
The pagans and Asian mystic wannabees are prime targets for Roman Catholicism, where they can find a resting place that allows almost any philosophy as long as the big tent is Rome.
One Missouri-trained pastor told me, trying to be patient, that Eastern Orthodoxy is just another polity. In a creedless age, that is true.
