From opposing apartheid laws to shaping social assistance policy in democratic South Africa, Black Sash, one of the country’s oldest civic organisations, has played a quiet but powerful role in the ...

The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America. Hundreds of pilgrims joined several bishops in an elaborate ceremony to canonize St. Olga Michael in her remote ...

Born in Ireland, Monsignor Hunt will retire in Gulf Breeze, where he has led St. Ann Catholic Parish for four decades.

Bishop Jules Jemnard, in full cassock, stands a few yards away, and another nun, Sister M. Mercedes, stands on the periphery.

One New Orleans middle school was named after a church leader who made history as the first Black bishop in the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Bishop Harold Perry. Perry, born in Lake Charles, was ...

No formal invitation was necessary; one simply needed to arrive in a black fillettata cassock, red sash and red zucchetto to gain admission to the general congregations held at the Paolo VI auditorium ...

Pope Leo XIV is just over a day into his pontificate and is already capturing style critics' attention with his return to form on papal aesthetics.

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A photo posted on his X account showed him posing with Catholic leaders — some believed to have accompanied him from abroad, while others were Nigerian clergy dressed in black and white cassocks.

Black smoke billowed from a chimney over the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel for a second day on Thursday as cardinals meeting in conclave once again failed to choose a new pope.

'Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming with emotion.