outdoor services such as burials or processions and, as is intended, during the celebration of Mass and other liturgical services. The biretta is also worn by a priest, deacon, subdeacon, and bishop in attendance at a Mass offered according to the rubrics for the Roman Missal of 1962.

The liturgical biretta has three peaks (though four peaks are the norm in Germany and the Netherlands), with the "peak-less" corner worn on the left side of the head.

Cardinals are given their birettas and

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