The Pope’s Red Shoes
Say it ain’t so! Along with Pope Benedict XVI’s retirement comes another surprise: it turns out that the pontiff never actually wore shoes by Prada, as it was widely reported throughout his eight-year papacy. CNN’s Christiane Amanpour explained on-air: “We have said for years ever since we watched this Pope be elected in 2005, that he was wearing red Prada shoes. I’m afraid we’ve been wrong.”
Amounpour’s guest Monsignor Kevin Irwin concurred, explaining “They are red shoes given to him because Contantine gave him the privileges of being an emperor and he allowed him to wear red shoes and a red cape, but frankly the papal shoemaker is up the block. And it’s not Prada.”
On a brighter note, the Prada/Pope misunderstanding only led to good things. Esquire magazine even named Pope Benedict “Accessorizer of the Year” in 2007. But all the while, Vatican experts had doubts about the high fashion hoopla: “He wouldn’t know Gucci from Smoochi,” Marjorie Weeke, a former official at the Vatican’s Social Communications office told the Washington Post in 2005.
Unfortunately, Weeke’s opinion only materialized on the final day of Benedict’s papacy. As Irwin expressively stated: “The devil may have worn Prada, but not this Pope.” – The Daily Beast, 1 March 2013
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Red shoes were only worn by the Emperor of Rome.
In 325 CE or thereabouts, Emperor Constantine gave the Bishop of Rome Sylvester I red shoes to wear and the Lateran Palace in Rome to live in. After his death, the Bishop of Rome also adopted the Emperor’s title as chief priest of the Empire, Pontifex Maximus (later to be modified to “Papa” or “Pope”).
So it can be rightly said that the Pope is the spiritual successor of Constantine the Great—and not of any Galilean fisherman called Peter who never made it to Rome in the first place.
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I have no reference library any longer and will not be writing any more history. But here is one of the footnotes from the St. Thomas legend book about Emperor Constantine:
And here is a note on how Constantine edited and rewrote the Bible after the First Council of Nicaea:
Read the book at http://ishwarsharan.wordpress.com
And a recommended, fascinating book about early Christian history, Julian’s Gods by Rowland Smith, is available at https://www.box.com/s/d7c37ed4eef0ecf471a1
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IS , in few lines you have described the evil RC empire so well, Excellente , keep it up.
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could you provide more info about papacy by constantine so that like thomas this can be formed into book.
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Ralph Napierski (L) a fake bishop poses with Cardinal Sergio Sebiastiana as the cardinal arrives for talks ahead of a conclave to elect a new pope on March 4, 2013 at the Vatican.
Fake Cardinal Crashes Secret Vatican Meeting Ahead Of Conclave To Elect New Pope – The Huffington Post UK – 04/03/2013
Fakery can now be added to the list of untoward and inappropriate things that cardinals have been accused of lately.
A man, reported to be an Italian, attempted to sneak into a highly secret meeting at the Vatican on Monday, dressed in what appeared to be ecclesiastical robes, reports AFP.
He told reporters he was called “Basilius” and that he was a member of the (non-existent) “Italian Orthodox Church”, mingling with the other (real) cardinals.
The fake cardinal, left, passed himself off as real for some time
According to the Gazzettadelsud, he was rumbled as his “cassock was shorter than standard”, “his crucifix unusual”, and most blatant of all, his sash turned out to be a purple scarf.
The general congregation of cardinals was meeting ahead of the Conclave to elect a new Pope next month.
Fr. Federico Lombardy, the Vatican spokesman said: “All I can say is that everyone seated for the congregation is a real cardinal.”
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Orthodox Christian icon of Emperor Constantine the Great. This most evil of Roman emperors is considered a saint in the Orthodox Church along with his fanatical mother Helena (who “discovered” the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem in a dream (she then had the existing Roman temple there destroyed and replaced with the Church of the Nativity)).
Quote “…Monsignor Kevin Irwin concurred, explaining “They are red shoes given to him because Contantine gave him the privileges of being an emperor and he allowed him to wear red shoes and a red cape…”
This is the most interesting line!
The papacy was created by Emperor Constantine “the Great” in the 4th century. He raised the Bishop of Rome over other Christian bishops by giving him the Lateran Palace in Rome and allowing him to wear red shoes.
Though the popes claim to be the successors of Apostle Peter, they are really the successors of the emperors of Rome.
Every historian knows that Apostle Peter never came to Rome and that the so-called apostolic succession of the popes from Peter is a fiction.
Emperor Constantine, father of European Christian civilization and perhaps the most wicked and cruel of Roman emperors, was chief priest of the Roman state religion of Sol Invictus. He carried the title Pontifex Maximus. This title was passed on to the Bishop of Rome after Constantine’s death.
The popes are therefore successors of of Constantine “the Great” and the Catholic Church is the manifest psychic extension of the Roman Empire in the world today.
None of this has anything to do with religion and spirituality as Hindus understand it. It is about international politics and world empire–nothing else.
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