By Msgr. Richard C. Antall, Crisis Magazine, Jan. 15, 2024
Monsignor Antall is pastor of Holy Name Parish in the Diocese of Cleveland. He is the author of The X-Mass Files (Atmosphere Press, 2021), and The Wedding (Lambing Press, 2019).
The emperor needed a new theologian to defend the marvelous cloth in which he paraded.
In the aftermath of the emperor’s parade in his birthday suit made, supposedly, of the invisible cloth that only the most noble souls could appreciate, there was a great silence in the palace.
The emperor had called his chaplain to his chamber and asked him, “Did you see the new suit of clothes that was prepared for me on my birthday?”
The chaplain, a grumpy old man, made a grunt and the emperor asked him to repeat himself.
“I was not at the procession,” the old priest said…..
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