Filippo Sorcinelli, Gay and Proud as a Designer of the Pope

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The Italian is one of the Vatican's favourite tailors. At 49, he dressed the last three popes, including Leo XIV, who will begin his first apostolic journey on 27 November. Catholic and homosexual, this organ player observes with patience and indulgence the slow evolution of the Church.

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Filippo Sorcinelli in his workshop in Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy. PIERRE TERRAZ FOR THE WORLD "Maria, where is it on Robert's chasuble?" The question, launched at one of the embroiderers of the workshop, comes out of the mouth of Filippo Sorcinelli as if he were talking about an old friend. The designer actually evokes the ex-cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, more famous today under the name of Leo XIV. "With Pope Leo XIV, we have known each…