All the offices of the Vatican Curia have on their walls (often painted in Paul VI Beige) official photo portraits of the current Roman Pontiff (i.e., the boss).
When I worked there, the one on my wall looked like this:
I just learned that Pope Francis has issued a replacement for his own photo portrait for the walls of curial offices.
I’m pretty sure that these will also be on sale in the Vatican bookstore along the side of St. Peter’s Square as well as in the nearby shops around the Vatican area.
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You’re having way too much fun today.
Mmm hmm. Looks right to me!
I had to take down my April Fool’s post: people really thought I was giving away my Medieval Latin text collection.
Whoever did that photoshop did a great job. I wish!
Oh, if only……!
So does that mean that all your posts today are…
Oh nevermind…
Please say that this post and the earlier one about concelebration in the EF are April Fool’s jokes! Blessings for guns sound good, though!
You really got me.
Because I have long given up predicting what our Holy Father will do next AND
because the picture loaded only halfway (revealing only the top of the Tiara) my computer keyboard was almost soaked in coffee!
Looks like John XXIII
Happy April Fool’s Day.
Has he recruited men to carry the chair thingy?
What? It goes with the tiaras, doesn’t it?
Nan, there are going to be both men and women carrying the chair thingy, including some non-Christians and people from marginalized groups.
Nan, I understand that women and now able to apply for the chair thingy carrying…
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I think the plan is to have men and women in wheel chairs carry the sedia gestatoria.
Elizabeth D, majuscule and Dude,
Will there be as chair thingy carriers Union? Or would the teamsters have a problem with that.
That old Johnny Mathis song, “Until the Twelfth of Never” keeps playing in my head as I look at that lovely photo.
Nan, I am pretty sure there is already a chair thingy carriers’ union, because I watched a movie about Pope John XXIII (the one starring Ed Asner) and in the movie one of the first things he did was substantially raise the pay of the chair thingy carriers, so I presume that in addition to (or because of?) being the first Pope to be good, John XXIII was the first to agree to union demands.
Ok it now becomes clearer.
I was at a bowling ally in Rome and saw a guy with a IBOCTC local 101 satin jacket. I now realize it stands for International Brotherhood Of Chair Thingy Carriers.
One less thing to wonder about.
Is it my imagination or does he bear a resemblance to Roncalli?