Matters liturgical
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Pope Benedict XVI after his enthronement Mass with Orthodox and (turbaned) Coptic clergy in the background

Not only are his vestments overall an improvement over the 1978 ceremony but a blog visitor brought his pallium to my attention. I like it! Red for the blood of Christ on white (like the flag of England), it shows a knowledge of ancient and early mediæval liturgical history, a knowledge fostered by the legitimate liturgical movement (now gone over 35 years), and makes clear that this archiepiscopal vestment is the same as the omophorion of Orthodox bishops.