What I Learned at My Audience with the Pope
Briefly

A few weeks ago, Giorgia Meloni, the right-wing-nationalist Prime Minister of Italy, took part in an event with Pope Francis during a conference about Italy's low birth rate, and was criticized by Italian reporters for having worn a light-beige pants suit with a long white jacket.Seizing on an old papal protocol specifying that the only women who are permitted to wear white to an audience with the Pope are queens and the consorts of Catholic kings, they suggested that Meloni was out of line, even that she was trying to draw attention to herself.
Read at The New Yorker
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