Ahead of conclave, this Italian tailor is making 3 different sizes of cassocks

Ahead of conclave, this Italian tailor is making 3 different sizes of cassocks

After a fat pope comes a skinny pope — Dopo un papa grasso, viene un papa magro, the old Vatican saying goes.Raniero Mancinelli is taking no chances.In a cramped backroom atelier just steps from St. Peter's Basilica, the 86-year-old ecclesiastical

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