Digital Journal

Skirts versus cassocks as Catholic women bid for rights

It will be a landmark review of Church teachings and women want their say: as bishops gather in Rome to review attitudes to modern family life, the "Catholic Women Speak" network is primed for a ...
Yahoo

Ahead of conclave, this Italian tailor is making 3 different sizes of cassocks

Raniero Mancinelli, 86, has been making papal clothes for decades out of his family-run tailor shop in Rome, just steps from St. Peter's Basilica. (Esma Çakir/CBC - image credit) After a fat pope ...
Digital Journal

Cassocks competition: whose outfit will new pope wear?

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

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 elect a successor for Pope Francis is the first in 46 ½ years for which the Vatican hasn’t ordered a ...
WPLG

These papal tailors aren't expecting a traditional order for new cassocks to outfit the next pope

ROME – Two papal tailors and no conclave orders. The conclave that begins next Wednesday to elect a successor for Pope Francis is the first in 46 ½ years for which the Vatican hasn't ordered a set of ...