As white smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel, two historic Roman tailoring houses have already prepared custom cassocks for the next pope.

The Pope's cassock is always white ... providing meticulously crafted garments for men of the Church. Nestled in a quaint, unassuming corner of central Rome, their bespoke tailoring shop boasts ...

PATHANAMTHITTA: A clergyman from Pathanamthitta district is set to tend to new flock by joining the Indian Army as a religious teacher. Equipped with the blessings of the Malankara Orthodox Church ...

Raniero Mancinelli played it safe and prepared the papal cassock despite not receiving ... He was even included in Esquire’s best-dressed men list in 2007. His red shoes did not go unnoticed ...

Behind a time-worn wooden counter, surrounded by tall glass cases displaying all kinds of religious articles — cassocks, scarlet caps, skullcaps, embroidered chasubles, and pectoral crosses ...

He is hand-making the lightweight wool cassocks, sashes and white zucchettos -- or skullcaps -- to be delivered to the Vatican ahead of the conclave, which starts on Wednesday. Mancinelli is also ...

ROME — For decades, one Rome tailor has been making the white cassock new popes don immediately after election—but this conclave it has competition. The Gammarelli tailors traditionally prepare three ...

ROME - For decades, one Rome tailor has been making the white cassock new popes don immediately after election -- but this conclave it has competition. The Gammarelli tailors traditionally ...

In a cramped backroom atelier just steps from St. Peter's Basilica, the 86-year-old ecclesiastical tailor is sewing not one but three white papal cassocks — small, medium and large — hedging ...