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1. Andrew Guidroz II 08/22/2006 - 2:04 pm

   Makes you wonder just how accurate the rest is if they can’t get the coat of arms right.

2. Bill Collier 08/22/2006 - 2:33 pm

   The “M” on the shield is a dead give away that it’s JPII’s coat of arms.

   When can we expect the “2006 Official Catholic Directory (Revised Version)”? ;)

3. Robert P. Imbelli 08/22/2006 - 2:44 pm  subscriber  contributor

   Where’d they put the bear?

4. Bill Mazzella 08/22/2006 - 4:05 pm  subscriber

   This practice has been by the military and the nobility since the middle ages. Perhaps the best thing would be to stop it altogether.
   Substitute it with doves or the like indicating peace.

5. Eugene McCarraher 08/22/2006 - 5:48 pm

   Ahhh….shouldn’t Christ be on the top?

6. Adam DeVille 08/22/2006 - 8:48 pm

   What’s wrong is what’s missing: the PATRIARCH of the WEST title!!

7. Bill Mazzella 08/22/2006 - 9:28 pm  subscriber

   Rome gave Patriarch of the West up as a gesture to the Orthodox. http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0601225.htm
   With Benedict, unlike JP, relations with the East will improve dramatically.

   As far as I am concerned only one title is legitimate and proper:

   Servant of the Servants of the Lord.

8. Adam DeVille 08/23/2006 - 9:12 am

   I’m quite aware that Rome gave up the title, but the argument that it was “a gesture to the Orthodox” is specious, as I have written elsewhere at length. Every single Orthodox response (and there have been at least three major ones published) has decried this decision in no uncertain terms.

9. Todd 08/23/2006 - 9:54 am

   Lumen Gentium put the People of God first. But the coat of arms is good. Probably few people at Kenedy are working there, much less assigned to the same office, that ever had to worry about that change before.

10. Grant Gallicho 08/23/2006 - 9:57 am  contributor

    Oddly, the 2005 edition had Benedict’s coat of arms. Maybe their QuarkXpress is haunted.

11. Joseph F. Gannon 08/23/2006 - 10:57 am

    I wish they would drop “Supreme Pontiff”. Is there any lesser Pontiff? Isn’t this an adaptation of the gentile title “Pontifex Maximus” claimed be Roman Emperors, after the end of the Republic, and later yielded to the Bishops of Rome? It is not an accident that the English word “pontificate” means what it does. Doesn’t “Vicar of Christ” say it all? Actually I would prefer the earlier title “Vicar of Peter”.

12. Bill Mazzella 08/23/2006 - 2:20 pm  subscriber

    I stand corrected on the reason for dropping the patriarch of the west title. I should have looked further. The Orthodox have indeed taken offense.

    I conclude thus in light of some very strong words in favor of the Orthodox by Benedict. Just shows one cannot easily draw conclusions. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-allen9apr09,0,6217100.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

13. Carolyn 09/04/2006 - 7:53 pm

    Isn’t the eagle supposed to be facing towards the arrows?

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