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The hidden meanings of Pope Benedict XVI’s ruby-red shoes
The color has a variety of significances: Some believe it is a reminder of Jesus’bloodied feetwhen he was crucified, while others believe it represents thespilled bloodof Catholic martyrs.
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Rocco Palmo, the Philadelphia-based editor of the Catholic news site Whispers in the Loggia, still remembers seeing them for the first time in person in 2008. “My first thought to myself was, ‘Oh my God, those shoes are really red.’ Despite having been quite familiar with them, there wassomething in the fleshthat made them pop,” he says now, with a laugh.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/12/31/red-shoes-pope-benedict/
Yet this 1991 movie, which stars Henry Winkler as a Jewish dad fighting for his comatose’s wife life (he honestly gives a performance that alone would make this movie worth revisiting), is an anomaly. Just like the real court case on which it was based, “Absolute Strangers” drew the ire of anti-abortion activists and the vehement support of pro-choice organizations like the National Council for Jewish Women.
That’s because, to save the life of his wife and the mother of his daughter, Marty Klein, along with a team of doctors, believes that she must have an abortion.
https://www.kveller.com/henry-winkler-once-played-a-jewish-dad-in-a-controversial-abortion-movie/
Phew. Eyes washed.