During CNN's wall-to-wall coverage of Pope Benedict XVI's final day as the head of the Catholic Church, Christiane Amanpour was forced to make a major correction: contrary to what CNN, and other news sources, have been reporting for years, Benedict's signature red shoes were not made by Prada.
As the CNN team, including potential morning show co-hosts Erin Burnett and Chris Cuomo, watched Benedict's helicopter descend into his new residence at Castel Gandolfo, Amanpour broke the news with some help from her guest, New York's Monsignor Kevin Irwin.
'We have said for years,' Amanpour said, 'ever since we watched this Pope be elected in 2005, that he was wearing red Prada shoes. I'm afraid we have been wrong.'
Monsignor Irwin gave the CNN audience the real story. 'They are red shoes given to him because Constantine gave him the privileges of being an emperor and he allowed him to wear red shoes and a red cape,' he said. 'Frankly the Papal shoemaker is up the block. And it's not Prada. So the devil may have worn Prada but not this Pope.'
That last line elicited an audible guffaw from Burnett, who perhaps couldn't believe such a prominent Catholic leader so casually mentioned the devil and the Pope in the same sentence.
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