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?????
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It's been that way since circa 2021 i think, or sometime around those years. The change occured after the current maestro, Msgr. Marcos Pavan, took over full artistic direction of the Sistine Chapel Choir.
It appears that the boys whose voices have not transitioned are still in roman (dog) collars. Would that such collars universally denoted innocence and purity!
The Vatican screamers as they used to be known have certainly improved since Benedict’s time.
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