I read on another post that this was a stole from JP II but the bottom gold circle has been changed to the coat of arms of Leo XIV. This could indicate that this is a stole he'll favor in the future.
Papal Pageantry did not get Pope Leo XIV very far when he was denounced recently for having taught error supposedly in regard to abortion...or when he was accused of having participated in the supposed pagan climate-related ceremony.
I don’t understand papal regalia pre or post Vatican II. However, post Vatican II, as with so many things in the Church, what a pope wears is highly individualistic and according to any particular pontiff’s tastes. For example, I don’t know why Pope Benedict chose the ermine fringed mozzetta and what determines that and no ermine. And Benedict wore a white ermine fringed Mozzetta during the Easter season. John Paul II preferred the long, red cape, which I don’t think Benedict used very often. Benedict like the suterno hat. I think JP II wore it too and it makes sense to do so outside in Italy’s hot sun. And let’s not get into lacy albs and surplices. I guess it is all according to tastes. At any rate, Pope Francis puritanical approach to papal protocols and vesture seems to have been just a blip in disordered desires of a particular pope and that he was the most humble, most simple, most Vatican II of any pope everrrr.
The winter Mozzetta was always fir lined but fir is no longer acceptable so no longer used. The same happened with Westminster Cathedral’s cheaper canons (who are privileged to use Lateran choir dress) also changed their winter cappas from fur to silk a few years ago.
The canons have the privilege Lateran choir dress, consisting of the purple choir cassock, and the Cappa Parva; a garment which passes over the head, and does up at the back of the neck. Like a cappa magna, it has a full hood, which is kept looped up, only let down when it is placed over the coffin of the deceased cleric (in some parts of the world in penitential processions, but this was never the practice in Westminster). In fact, it is, in effect, the cappa magna without the train.
In former times, the cappa was of white fur in winter and crimson silk in summer, however, when these fell apart, earlier this century, they were replaced with only silk cappas, in a simplified form (presumably in view of the greater provision for heating in the cathedral). The college of chaplains also wear cappas but in grey, lined in purple, these were formerly of squirrel fur for winter.
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As time wears on, one is reminded of window dressings and the rearrangement of ocean liner deck chairs.
Nick
I thought Francis’s preference for simplicity and lack of window dressing was a major gripe of trads?
Now you got it back but still not happy!
big benny...I believe in general we are glad to see the pageantry return...why do you say the opposite?
I read on another post that this was a stole from JP II but the bottom gold circle has been changed to the coat of arms of Leo XIV. This could indicate that this is a stole he'll favor in the future.
"Major" is open for debate... what is not is that an improved style is one thing, substance is another.
Nick
Papal Pageantry did not get Pope Leo XIV very far when he was denounced recently for having taught error supposedly in regard to abortion...or when he was accused of having participated in the supposed pagan climate-related ceremony.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
I can understand the Mozzetta but i can’t see the reasoning why the pope wears a stole for non liturgical functions (except it’s traditional)?
I don’t understand papal regalia pre or post Vatican II. However, post Vatican II, as with so many things in the Church, what a pope wears is highly individualistic and according to any particular pontiff’s tastes. For example, I don’t know why Pope Benedict chose the ermine fringed mozzetta and what determines that and no ermine. And Benedict wore a white ermine fringed Mozzetta during the Easter season. John Paul II preferred the long, red cape, which I don’t think Benedict used very often. Benedict like the suterno hat. I think JP II wore it too and it makes sense to do so outside in Italy’s hot sun. And let’s not get into lacy albs and surplices. I guess it is all according to tastes. At any rate, Pope Francis puritanical approach to papal protocols and vesture seems to have been just a blip in disordered desires of a particular pope and that he was the most humble, most simple, most Vatican II of any pope everrrr.
Tsk tsk, just another puritanical Americanski, right benny?
Nick
The winter Mozzetta was always fir lined but fir is no longer acceptable so no longer used. The same happened with Westminster Cathedral’s cheaper canons (who are privileged to use Lateran choir dress) also changed their winter cappas from fur to silk a few years ago.
It’s in your dna Nick!
https://www.liturgicalartsjournal.com/2018/01/the-chapter-of-westminster-cathedral.html?m=1
The canons have the privilege Lateran choir dress, consisting of the purple choir cassock, and the Cappa Parva; a garment which passes over the head, and does up at the back of the neck. Like a cappa magna, it has a full hood, which is kept looped up, only let down when it is placed over the coffin of the deceased cleric (in some parts of the world in penitential processions, but this was never the practice in Westminster). In fact, it is, in effect, the cappa magna without the train.
In former times, the cappa was of white fur in winter and crimson silk in summer, however, when these fell apart, earlier this century, they were replaced with only silk cappas, in a simplified form (presumably in view of the greater provision for heating in the cathedral). The college of chaplains also wear cappas but in grey, lined in purple, these were formerly of squirrel fur for winter.
From Argentina to America, no less!
Nick
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