It’s a busy time at Mancinelli Clergy, the iconic shop that embodies the history and tradition of ecclesiastical tailoring in ...

He is hand-making the lightweight wool cassocks, sashes and white zucchettos -- or skullcaps -- to be delivered to the Vatican ahead of the conclave, which starts on Wednesday. Mancinelli has ...

In a cramped backroom atelier just steps from St. Peter's Basilica, the 86-year-old ecclesiastical tailor is sewing not one but three white papal cassocks — small, medium and large — hedging ...

These Papal Tailors Aren't Expecting a Traditional Order for New Cassocks to Outfit the Next Pope ROME (AP) — Two papal tailors and no conclave orders. The conclave that begins next Wednesday to ...

An AI-generated image of U.S. President Donald Trump dressed as the pope “was not good,” Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New ...

Mancinelli hand-makes lightweight wool cassocks, sashes and zucchettos - Copyright AFP Peter PARKS Mancinelli hand-makes lightweight wool cassocks, sashes and ...

For decades, one Rome tailor has been making the white cassock new popes don immediately after election -- but this conclave it has competition. The Gammarelli tailors traditionally prepares three ...