Excellent : "Perhaps they should replace the ugly "mitre" with Mickey Mouse ears, just to make the Papacy look like totally ridiculous..."

Ça m'a tellement fait rire (jaune) que j'en suis presque consolé. Mais un autre lecteur dit plus sérieusement, et ça, c'est tristement vrai :

"Heraldically, what the mitre says to the world is this : I am nothing but a bishop. This is what Cranmer said of the Pope in the sixteenth century : he's nothing but the Bishop of Rome. It's also what the liberals have been saying since the 1960s : he's only the bishop of Rome..."