Prodigal Father
“—Psalm 133 “You have been suffering terrible things of late, Father Boniface.”
“Yes, Your Eminence. That is why I asked to see you.”
“You are an older man than I, by a great margin, I should say.”
“It is a matter of office, not of age.”
The cardinal smiled. His zucchetto was not worn at the back, a covering for the tonsure when tonsures set the clergy off from the laity, but perched on the top of his egg-shaped head. But that head was hairless, tonsured all over, so to speak. The cardinal lif...ted it, looked inside it, then put it back where it was. “I was a bishop and an archbishop before being given Chicago, but I have never become used to the zucchetto. Worn on top like this, it is less likely to be pulled away when the miter is removed.”
“We wear one with our habits.”
“Ah. Then you are senior to me in that as well. And father superior of your Order.”
“A very deflated honor, Your Eminence.”
The cardinal nodded and thoughts came and went in his large philosophical eyes.MoreLess
“Yes, Your Eminence. That is why I asked to see you.”
“You are an older man than I, by a great margin, I should say.”
“It is a matter of office, not of age.”
The cardinal smiled. His zucchetto was not worn at the back, a covering for the tonsure when tonsures set the clergy off from the laity, but perched on the top of his egg-shaped head. But that head was hairless, tonsured all over, so to speak. The cardinal lif...ted it, looked inside it, then put it back where it was. “I was a bishop and an archbishop before being given Chicago, but I have never become used to the zucchetto. Worn on top like this, it is less likely to be pulled away when the miter is removed.”
“We wear one with our habits.”
“Ah. Then you are senior to me in that as well. And father superior of your Order.”
“A very deflated honor, Your Eminence.”
The cardinal nodded and thoughts came and went in his large philosophical eyes.MoreLess
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