The Solemnity of Corpus Christi, Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, is one of the most important celebrations ...

Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural Mass at St. Peter’s Square is an ancient ritual filled with symbolism that connects back to Peter, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass on Friday, a day after his historic election as the first U.S.-born pope in the Catholic Church’s 2,000-year history while ...

The priest at the altar would be wearing alb, chasuble, maniple and stole, the familiar Eucharistic vestments of the Western ... known Western Rite of the Orthodox Church. Keeping the Mass.

A Brooklyn woman said she feared for her life as she was chased, kicked, spit at and pelted with objects by a mob of Orthodox Jewish men who mistook her as a participant in a protest against ...

VATICAN CITY — A patchwork of clergy in red, white, purple and black vestments. World leaders including President Trump seated on the stairs of St. Peter’s Basilica for an outdoor ceremony.

The ST. SAVA SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH CONTROVERSY (1963-75) over control of church property and control by a hierarchical form of church government split Cleveland's SERBIAN community. An ...

For generations tailors, whose shop was founded in 1798, have prepared 3 white cassocks ROME: Rome’s Gammarelli tailors traditionally prepare the vestments for the new pope - but say this time ...

The Roman Missal for the dead is used and the priest may either were white or violet vestments. "This Mass is not celebrated ... and for the election of the new pope are added. In the Eucharistic ...

For 45 years, Brian Baker created vestments and mitres for pontiffs, ensuring that the Catholic garments were ready when the Holy Father visited the U.S. “When the Holy Father says he is coming ...

In 2013, Washington Post writer Elizabeth Tenety responded to a wave of liberal acclaim for the new pope with a memorably succinct headline: “Like Pope Francis? You’ll love Jesus.” ...

The pontiff can be seen lying in his vestments with a rosary clasped between his fingers as guards stand beside his body (Picture: AFP) Images of Pope Francis’s body inside a coffin have been ...