Here’s a little something I came across this summer while in the process of looking for other things:

“Curious Moments: Archive of the Century” (Hendrick Neubauer/Das Fotoarchiv; published by Konemann; 2006)
(The top photo originally appeared to the left of the second one.)

This book also includes a photo of a long funeral procession in which nearly everyone seems to be wearing black hoods and robes. The text that accompanies that photo (which kinda looks like a negative image of a KKK march at first glance) goes like this: “When the late Pope Pius X’s sister died in Rome in the mid-1920s, her coffin was escorted to the Church of the Holy Spirit by the Brothers of the Buona Morte Order. By requiring would-be priests to take an oath denouncing Modernism, Pius X (1903-1914) rekindled hostilities between the church and secular society; the anti-democratic tendencies of his approach were to have considerable influence on Vatican policy well into the 1950s.”