Flash - The Pope wears Prada! Those red slippers he wore are supposed to represent the blood of martyrs. Now that Benedict XVI is retired he will return to normal shoes. In 1943 I was an eighth grade altar boy at Holy Child School. The parish had planned an event in church that would include a procession up the middle aisle. The nuns selected me to lead this procession and I would be wearing a white cassock and red slippers. So it was that after school one day I - wearing my corduroy jacket - found myself being escorted by two nuns - they in their black habits - on the subway train to Gimbels department store to purchase a pair of red slippers. The event went off as planned and I never saw those red slippers again. They may be under glass at a museum along with Dorothy's red shoes.
So what do the Pope, Dorothy and I have in common? RED SHOES.
tjs
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