Nikita Roncalli - Hutton Gibson

Hebrew Supreme Priest, on the pontifical habit. To break
the sensational news to the world is the abbot Georges de
Nantes, who in October 1970, on issue 37 of his monthly
“Contre Reforme Catholique,” launches a cry of alarm,
with an article titled “The Amulet of the Pope.” In “Paris
Match” of August 29, Roberto Serrou’s column “Will the
Next Pope be a Frenchman?” Is illustrated by a large
photograph of the Pope and of cardinal Villot. I gaze at
those two closed faces dissembling the fate of the
Church… But, what is this, over here, on Paul VI’s breast,
beneath the pectoral cross? A curious jewel I cannot recall
seeing on any other Pope! The object must be made of
gold, of a square shape, ornate with twelve precious stones
set on four lines, three by three. It is hanging in a very
particular way from a cord running around alongside that
bearing the Cross of the Christ.
I am afraid to understand. All doubts are thus possible.
To describe the object, artlessly, I used the very words
that, in ch. XXVIII of the “Exodus,” describe the Ephod of
the Hebrew Supreme Priest!
Here then, on the Pope’s heart, hanging from his neck, is
the “Pectoral of Judgment” that the Supreme Priest Aaron
and his successors must wear as a ritual ornament to signify
the twelve tribes of Israel, “to recall them incessantly in the
presence of Jahve” (Ex. 28,29.)
Paul VI has been bearing the emblem of Caiphas… Who
knows for how long, why, and from whom did he get it?