What Do Cardinals and Popes Wear?: Media
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Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone in ordinary dress in 2013. As a cardinal, he is wearing...
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Pope John Paul II greeting artist Andy Warhol in Vatican City, April 2, 1980. When...
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Cardinal Anthony Poola receiving a red biretta to be worn over his zucchetto from...
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Cardinal Wilton Gregory, archbishop of Washington, leading an Ash Wednesday mass...
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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (who would become Pope Benedict XVI) swinging a censer...
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Dressed in formal liturgical dress, Pope Francis marks the start of an Extraordinary...
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Pope John Paul II wearing a pallium over a green chasuble. He holds a papal ferula...
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Click on the color wheel to learn when the vestment colors are used throughout the...
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