Since 1914, white smoke has indicated the election of a new pope. A stereotypical association of the colour of the smoke – white (positive) and black (negative) – lies behind the use of the two ...

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

Leo, the first American and second Latin American pope, celebrated his inaugural Mass at the Vatican after waving to the ...

or of burning incense in tradition - as a form of human communication with the divine," Candida Moss, a theology professor at the University of Birmingham, told the BBC. "In Catholic tradition, ...

Incense (from the Latin incendere ... Sacramental Theology and Director of the ACU Centre for Liturgy, Australian Catholic University ...

A last-minute phone call to the mayor meant that a 200-person Eucharistic procession, led by the Rev. Father Boniface Hicks, ...