AM I THE FIRST TO NOTICE THIS?

 In fact, I noticed it at the Midday Solemn Sung Liturgy of the Hours with Pope Leo XIV and King Charles II. The Basilica Choir adult members wearing their traditional red cassock and surplice, were wearing neckties instead of what always appeared to me to be a Roman collar as a priest would wear when  wearing the cassock and surplice.

This is a photo of Sunday’s morning Mass at St.Peter’s with Pope Leo. The men are wearing neckties although the boy choir members still seem to have the clerical collar or maybe a turtleneck????

I report and you decide. Has this always been the case or is it a new thing for this choir?????