It. Is. A. Hat. After all, the mortar board hats worn by students at graduation are believed to have evolved from birettas, hats worn by clerics in Roman Catholic church in the 1500s, but I’m ...

At mass, celebrated for half a million people at the great cross by the Bishop of Alicante, Spain, permission was given the men to wear their hats, the clergy their birettas. Since the women had ...

For this is both a conference and a pageant, with costume designer Lisy Christl doing essential work in crafting the dozens of zucchettos, birettas, and mitres needed for the cast. (Never thought ...

The next consistory, at which the 21 new cardinals will be presented with their red birettas, will be on 8 December, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, at St Peter’s, in Rome. This is also ...