Unseen since the cold days of that other senior pope, John XXIII, the "camauro" has again seen the face of day today, at the general audience.
Since we wish a healthy and long pontificate to the Holy Father, we could only approve of this choice. The list of aged pontiffs who left this world after a single whiff of winter is quite long -- one of the most famous was Pope Leo X Medici (on the Throne of Peter when that other German, an Augustinian monk, decided to destroy Christendom - others say he died of a powerful version of malaria, so that is another controversial issue surrounding the Reformation...).
