The mozzetta is a short elbow-length cape that covers the shoulers and is buttoned over the breast. It is worn as part of choir dress by some of the clergy of the Catholic Church, among them the Pope, cardinals, bishops, abbots, canons and religious superiors. It used to have a small hood on the back on the mozzette of bishops and cardinals but this was discontinued by Pope Paul VI; however, the hood was retained in the mozzette of certain canons and abbots, and also in the Popes'.