Screenshot from Fellini’s ‘Roma’ satire of Vatican fashion, 1972:

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Cardinal Raymond Burke at the Vatican in 2013:

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Nearly identical fashion in frocks, you think? Who’d have dared plagiarize Fellini’s designs for the queens of fashion at the Vatican? Some character out of Satyricon, patronizing the Vatican’s new digs?

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Our suspect is almost certainly linked to this story:

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Related:

Marquis de Sade Pervert of Western Philosophy

Junípero Serra On house breaking dogs (Catholic style)

Raphael’s Paradox On male hierarchy & civilization

St Chester Prince of the Church & patron of boys

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The Satires