Roger Cardinal Mahony, the Archbishop of Los Angeles, is seen here in full choir dress, wearing his scarlet Cardinal's biretta.
Angelo Cardinal Sodano, the Pope's Secretary of State.
The Archbishop of St Louis is seen here (before Christmas Midnight Mass, I'm told) wearing the purple episcopal biretta and that glorious and rarely-encountered vestment, the cappa magna. Three of the clerics attending the Archbishop are wearing black birettas. The priest to Mons. Burke's right is the rector of the basilica, thus entitled to the black mozzetta he is wearing with his purple cassock as a monsignor. (Thanks to a Benedictine reader for this magnificent photo.)
Archbishop Mario Conti taking possession of the Archdiocese of Glasgow, Scotland. Behind him is Archbishop Pablo Puente, the Papal Nuncio. Both have the purple episcopal biretta.
Platters-full of cardinals' birettas for the Mass of the creation of these Princes of the Church.
Fr Bryce Sibley, vested for Mass on Gaudete Sunday, is wearing the black Roman biretta.
Don Stefano in the black biretta with surplice and white stole and cope.
Your servant, in the sacristy holding the black Roman biretta after Mass.
Deacon Dana Christensen presiding over devotions wearing the black biretta with violet cope and diaconal stole over the cassock and surplice.
Fr Rob Johansen, with his head properly covered, during the entrace procession of Christmas Mass.
Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, prior to his election as Pope John Paul II. Is that don Stanislaw Dziwisz beside him?
Cardinal Schoenborn in choir dress and wearing the scarlet biretta, meeting with Eastern clergy.
A Norbertine priest wearing the four-horned white biretta of his order. Because of the presence of the Blessed Sacrament in the procession, everyone's head really ought to be bare. But the biretta is still quite nice.
The parish priest of Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston, Texas, at a groundbreaking after Mass. He is wearing the black Roman biretta.
Another fine photo from the Anglican Use of the Roman Rite. Both celebrant and deacon are wearing birettas in this after-Mass procession at Our Lady of the Atonement parish, also in Texas.
His Beatitude, Michel Sabbah, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, wearing the purple episcopal biretta (and a cappa magna with ermine). You can see two other prelates with purple birettas on either side of the patriarch.
Dionigi Cardinal Tettamanzi, the Archbishop of Milan.
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger wearing the scarlet biretta.
Angelo Cardinal Sodano, Secretary of State, and Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Both are in choir dress.
Cardinal Ratzinger, looking very stylish.
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger wearing the scarlet biretta in conversation with an Eastern hierarch. I know nothing at all about the headgear of the Eastern Rites.
An unusual photo of a priest blessing motorcycles.
A number of places in Europe have special local vestural privileges. The three men who look like bishops are actually not bishops. Their purple-tufted black birettas show that their other prelatial garments are merely honorary. The celebrant in the back, who is an archpriest, also wears a purple-tufted black biretta. (Credit and more photos: this Italian site.)
A group of seminarians (all priests now) at the North American College in Rome. Notice the seminarian on the left, whose biretta has no tuft. Tuftless black birettas are less common, but still perfectly legitimate.
Carlo Cardinal Martini, the progressive Archbishop-emeritus of Milan, in choir dress and wearing the scarlet cardinal's biretta, which is always without the pom-pom. His rochet is pretty nice, too.
Yours truly wearing a simple Roman biretta.
Archbishop Oscar Romero, the famous martyr of San Salvador.
A High Mass at the rightly famous St Agnes parish in St Paul, Minn. A number of black birettas can be seen on the attending clergy.
Two Dominican friars here in Washington sport their birettas at a graduation ceremony. The biretta is the usual headgear for clerics at commencement ceremonies, rather than the mortarboard. Once a cleric receives a higher degree (usually the doctorate), he may wear (in an academic setting) the academic biretta, which has four horns and is piped in the color of his specific field of expertise. Like the academic ring, the academic biretta is not allowed in the Liturgy.
Adam Cardinal Maida, the Archbishop of Detroit, in choir dress with the scarlet biretta.
Francis Cardinal George, the Archbishop of Chicago, wearing his scarlet biretta.
Avery Cardinal Dulles, in biretta and ferraiola.
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