The most striking visual representation of this disparity, if you ask me, can be seen when the College of Cardinals, consisting entirely of men, all of whom are dressed in those unmistakable red and white vestments, with the red skullcap called a zucchetto (the color of which is meant to remind them that they should be ready to shed their blood, as martyrs, for the Church) convenes at the Vatican, in the days following the death or renunciation of a pope, during what is called conclave, to elect, from among their number, a successor.