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Hats off to the fun and practical saturno Catholic bloggers leapt to the defence of the clerical headgear known as the saturno last week. An anecdote by Pope Francis about a vain young traditionalist had cast the hat under the shadow of suspicion. Joseph Shaw, chairman of the Latin Mass Society, asked: “How could a harmless hat become the object of such strong feelings?” After all, “saturnos are fun” and, as far as he was concerned, the perfect antidote to “liberal killjoys”.