A veteran Vatican diplomat recently became a brief cause célèbre in Italy after images of him celebrating Mass in a leopard print chasuble went viral on social media, generating an avalanche of largely derisive commentary and forcing the local cathedral to issue a clarification. Archbishop Nicola Girasoli, 66, currently the papal ambassador to Slovakia, was in his hometown of Ruvo di Puglia in southern Italy on Sept. 4 to celebrate a Mass in honour of Father Salvatore Summo, who was marking his 40th anniversary as pastor of the local cathedral.