For centuries, newly-elected popes have worn a white cassock (ankle-length clerical ... which is why new popes often wear a red one. "The pope is the bishop of Rome and he's also a cardinal ...

Pope Leo XIV came out wearing the traditional garb for a new pope Thursday – a red mozzetta and a stole over a white rochet and his new white cassock – restoring a tradition that Pope Francis ...

The white cassock — a long-sleeved ... according to 13th-century French Bishop William Duranti. Cassocks, which have historical links to the Roman robe known as the “caracalla,” are ...

For now, prelates will keep wearing white cassocks, Bishop Chittilapilly added, but they will be "free to reduce the use of or abandon" the red cummerbund-like cloth tied around it. The commission ...

That isn’t stopping Ranieri Mancinelli, who opened his ecclesiastical tailoring shop near the Vatican in the 1960s, from making three simple white cassocks ... burgundy red mozzetta, a short ...

That isn’t stopping Ranieri Mancinelli, who opened his ecclesiastical tailoring shop near the Vatican in the 1960s, from making three simple white cassocks ... burgundy red mozzetta, a short ...